David Senra

Faintly, I hear my father sniffling and wiping away tears, and I know he's proud.

He's just incapable of expressing it.

And then throughout the book, I think Andre is really affected by what they write about him in the media.

He reads articles about him.

Most of the people are criticizing him.

So he's talking about the sports writers now.

And he says, after two years of calling me a fraud, a choke artist, a rebel without a cause, they lionize me.

They declare that I'm a winner, a player of substance, the real deal.

They say my victory at Wimbledon forces them to reassess me, to reconsider who I really am.

But I don't feel that Wimbledon has changed me.

In fact, I feel as I've been let in on a dirty little secret.

winning changes nothing.

Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know.

A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad.

And the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad, not even close.

And so there's all these people that Andre's going to meet.

He's going to make them part of his team.

And they really help him on this like journey of, but again, I think this is just a story of redemption.

It is the classic arc of like the hero's journey.

In fact, he's got this call to adventure.