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.

I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.

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.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

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.

It's great for tennis, and it's not just the fact that they're Americans ? although we want the Americans to do well here at our championships,