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.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

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.

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

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