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1. A lot of clay court players want rhythm. They want the time to play from the baseline, and it’s about preventing them from having that.
2. Unless we get children playing tennis, we’ll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other sports.
3. When I think about how badly I wanted to be a player, and how obsessed I was with the game, I think that, for a long time in British tennis, that’s been a big question mark with the kids, how much they want it.
4. I love a rack of lamb with a good bottle of red wine.
5. Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.
6. When you are dealing with two players who are almost mirror images, the contest often boils down to first-serve percentage. Who is getting more cheap points on their first serve? Who can dominate the other guy’s second serve?
7. I had a shoulder problem during my career when I changed my service action and needed an operation.
8. There are too many British players who just aren’t good enough. And that’s not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren’t good enough.
9. People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
10. A lot of British players had more potential than me. But they slipped away.
11. I’m a private person. I don’t want to write a book because I know the story and feel no need to tell it to anyone else.
12. Changing nappies is easy.
13. Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.
14. My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.
15. Volleying comes into grass-court tennis because it’s a surface that favours the player who gets on the front foot. So if you’ve got an opportunity to come in and be aggressive, then finishing the points at the net is always going to be a good strategy.
16. The side of me you see when I’m having a laugh is not the one most conducive to playing my best tennis.
17. My wife and I went on a safari break in Singita, South Africa, for our honeymoon and then we went back for our 10th anniversary, which was amazing.
18. It’s always fun catching up with the other players because so many of them were really good mates when I was playing on the main tour. The thing you miss when you give up is that camaraderie that you experienced because, for 35 weeks of the year, it really is a travelling circus.
19. I was part of the David Lloyd Academy and when I was 16–17 years old I got to practise with Stefan Edberg and that really helped me.
20. When you see players coming into the new season with injuries and already carrying strapping on various parts of their bodies in January, then it only serves to highlight how hard the sport is and how demanding the schedule can be. There really isn’t an off-season and that’s the nature of the beast.