Hi, I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. It is day two of the Stattle Masters tennis here at

the Royal Albert Hall. We have a special edition of the show. Every day of this tournament,

yesterday we were speaking to Pat Cash about 1987 and going back in time to his Wimbledon

victory hearing all about that and his thoughts about tennis. Today, Catherine Whitaker,

we have an even more exciting guest. Guess who it is. Guess.

Well that's cheating because I know because I'm sitting right next to him.

It's John McEnore. Hello John. How's it going?

It's going very well. How are you feeling after an 11-9 third set champions tie-break win

against Pat Cash in which you were doing double fist pumps, win alarms and everybody was on their feet?

Sure, tired. I put it all out there. I gave it everything I had. It was looking grim at times, but

I felt like I was competing hard because I did that. I think I got a little bit lucky. Sometimes

when you try harder, you get luckier and I think in this case I didn't. Pat lifted his game.

I lifted mine and thank God it was a third set tie-breaker instead of a full set.

I remember when I started on this circuit. I think it was about 16 years ago. I remember the first

match I ever saw on the tour was you against Bjorn Borg in Doha. I remember it going in at the

start of the match. You walked out with Bjorn with your arm around his shoulder and you said,

don't let's play this champions tie-break. Let's play three. Did I say that? Did you?

Well that was a long time ago. Thankfully I've realized that in terms of me being able to

get out there and play a little bit longer that this thing has worked out pretty well because

at the time it seemed sort of crazy, but now it's really become part of not only the seniors

tour, but even doubles and things like Team Tennis shorting their length of their matches and

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