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.

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

Your game is only as good as your second serve

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.