Joe

Like, I mean, you were BBC Sports Personality of the Year, which for...

You know, somebody who'd switched from representing Canada just two years previously to be like the sports personality of the year for reaching the US Open final, let alone winning the thing, shows like how fallow things have been in UK tennis across the 80s and 90s.

It was a really big thing.

Your perspective on that tournament, that final, I know you fell ill.

Um, in advance of the final and there was a, will I, won't I take a TUE?

Like there was a lot going on at 24 years of age.

Yeah, I guess at 24, you don't suspect, as you say, it will be your last chance.

But now that it is and the career is complete, I can see how that's an itch.

I can see how that would come back.

Um, I had a glance, um, at the rafter match on YouTube and it was interesting.

One of the first comments under the match is serving volley or IP.

Uh,

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.