Joe

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.

And you think that's a pity?

Yeah.

And the artistry, well, it's the aggression of the serve and I'm rushing the net mixed with the artistry of, you know, macaroni's pump, finding all sorts of angles at the net.

I read an interview where you said the likes of Alcaraz now kind of has no weakness to his game or a lot of the top players now really have no weakness, whereas that maybe wasn't the case a generation or two ago.

So, for instance, your backhand, rightly or wrongly, was perceived as a weakness.

And so it got pummeled.

Is that right?

Talk to us about that.