John Isner

Oh, damn it.

Well, yeah, absolutely.

I'm able to create angles when I was playing that most of my opponents aren't able to pull off.

You saw that a little bit last night with Riley Opelka, although he lost, of course, to Carlos Alcaraz last night.

He's about my height, and he can create some serious angles when he's serving, so...

When you're almost seven feet tall playing tennis, the serve is 100% going to be your best weapon.

And if it's not, you shouldn't be playing tennis at all.

Oh, that wasn't until my junior year of college.

I didn't have pro aspirations.

And typically in tennis, bigger players take much longer to develop.

It just takes a lot longer time to grow into your body.

So that was definitely the case for me.

In my junior year in college, I...

got pretty good and decided that, you know, I didn't want to work a regular job.

So I pursued professional tennis after my senior year.

I mean, I still, I went to all four years of school at the university of Georgia and, and had a long pro career after that.

So going to college was, was critical for me, but it actually like some players when they leave high school, they face a tough decision, whether to turn pro or go to college.

For me, it wasn't tough at all.

I had to go to college.

I just wasn't good enough.