There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.

When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

He still believes he can win one more time.

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.