“If you want to win, I think play is the greateast teacher.

I spent three decades in endurance sports. When I started playing tennis again technique came back pretty quick but winning took a long time.

You only develop the intuition to play the right shot at the right time when you make practice unpredictable and competitive, and when you introduce constraints to force creativity.

If running marathons taught me about patience, returning to tennis is finally teaching me the value of play.”