David Senra
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Return this serve with all of your strength, and if you return it hard but miss, you can live with that.
You can survive that.
One return, no regrets.
Hit harder.
I jump in the air, swing with all my strength.
Somehow he misses the easy volley.
His ball smacks the net.
And just like that, after 22 years and 22 million swings of a tennis racket, I'm the 1992 Wimbledon champion.
I fall to my knees.
I fall on my stomach.
I can't believe the emotion pouring out of me.
After the match, trembling, I dial my father in Vegas.
Pops, it's me.
Can you hear me?
What did you think?
Silence.
Pops, you had no business losing that fourth set.
Stunned, I wait.
Then I say, good thing I won the fifth set though, right?
He says nothing, not because he disagrees or disapproves, but because he's crying.