I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.