David Senra
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It takes 21 sets to win a slam.
That's all.
You just need to win 21 sets.
Seven matches, best of five, that's 21.
Simplify, simplify.
Every time you win a set, say to yourself, that's one down, that's one in my pocket.
At the start of a tournament, count backward from 21.
That's positive thinking.
And so Andre realizes at that dinner, this is the guy for me.
And Brad is super important to his story.
Andre is currently on a losing streak.
Brad appears, smiling.
Good things, he says, are about to happen.
I stare, incredulous.
He says, you have to suffer.
You have to lose a shitload of close matches.
And then one day, you're going to win a close one, and the skies are going to part, and you're going to break through.
You just need that one breakthrough, that one opening.
And after that, nothing will stop you from being the best in the world.
You're crazy, I say.