Joe

So you were a serving volley player.

You had the fastest serve on record at 149 miles per hour until Andy Roddick broke it.

I was reading, and I guess it's of the time, in 2006, you were doing an email Q&A and you were saying, and this is in 2006,

that you felt like a dying breed by the end of your career as a servant volley player.

This year, the balls are even slower than ever, you wrote in 06.

The courts are stickier.

It's more and more difficult to play that game.

And I think it's a shame that we're losing this style of tennis.

The game has become much more one-dimensional.

Rafa Nadal typifies the modern style.

A lot of energy, hits a lot of balls back, does a lot of running.

But what brought me into tennis was the way McEnroe played with his servant volley game.

And I always liked to watch a contrast of styles.

the sort of matches that Sampras and Agassi would have played.

So talk to us about your game and about how you became a dying breed and why.

Can I ask why, by the way, I mean, I developed the point by all means and the various changes, but just interrupt.

Were people looking at Sampras and looking at you and saying, oh, this is, they don't, they didn't like it?

Is that, was that the general vibe?

Yeah.

Okay.