Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.