Desi Lydic

This is serious.

We brought our own set of fans to the plate.

And I think it created more eyeballs watching our matches, coming to the matches, and watching on TV.

It did.

Now, Chris, you started, you came onto the scene and took the world of tennis by storm at 16 years old, which I can't even imagine reaching that level of success so early on in your life.

That couldn't have been easy.

What would you go back and tell yourself if you could at 16 years old?

You know, and Martina touched upon it, you know, when you become famous when you're young and you haven't developed

you know, your character, you haven't developed principles, you haven't developed a personality yet, you're not mature.

It doesn't lend itself to really a normal upbringing or a healthy upbringing because

People at 16 were telling me, patting me on the back, telling me how great I was.

And everybody's saying what you want to hear.

Everyone wants to be your friend.

And that's not reality at all.

So it took me a long time to figure that out, to not feel that I was special.

I was just like everybody else, but it makes you feel like you're special.

Well, you are.

You are special.

But so are you.

And so are you, and so are you, and so are you.