Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary

Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis

podcast Let's go right back when When you started working with Novak, what did you think coming into his team that he needed to do that he wasn't doing at the time.

It's very tough, you know, when you come with a player like that with he won everything and then me coming in like thinking okay now I'm

gonna change something I mean you don't change something you try to improve something that he was doing already almost perfect like serve like maybe

attacking more like hitting better volleys like a position at the net or maybe bigger forehands,

but you don't come here, okay, now you're going to change this and there because it doesn't work like that.

So he is the institution, he is the biggest tennis player.

But I actually have to say I had luck that Marianne was still there and he helped me a lot to help me

you know okay my way of approaching the things but know, we were doing some tournaments together, so I was observing

looking and I spoke a lot with Marion. But that was also what helped me.

I don't know like I was following him and I was with him on the court before I became

his court but opposite side of the net so I know how it's functioning and mentality, language, everything was easier for me.

Yeah. And now that you've, now that you're stopping working with him, what do you look back at and think

you, you helped him with that maybe, I don know maybe you're most proud of maybe you can

see now in in the in hindsight what was the biggest impact you had in a positive way

on his game?

I don't know, I mean, this guy is a genius, you know, and this brain of his work in different, different

way, but you know, I think think he improved first and second. Well I thought always

that there was always underestimated a lot. I think he was

unbelievable and the whole of the matches

you want are serving unbelievable.

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