John Isner

Does she want to go down and play challengers?

Does she want to go to Asia and play the Asian swing?

So that's tough to do at 45, especially when you've been so accomplished like she has been.

Obviously, when you get to play on Arthur Ashe Stadium in a night match, like I'll come back for one match for that for sure, because you can't replicate that feeling of playing in that court under the light.

But it's not all glitz and glamour on the tour.

It certainly is at the US Open.

So it's a lot more difficult once this tournament ends and you look at what the rest of your tournament schedule looks like.

yeah no like for for me for sure like that that rest period is was has been nice but like i i still miss it i get to recreate my childhood a sense like through my children now which is which is very special and maybe they'll go on the tennis journey that i went on as well which i would love for them to do uh but definitely like rest is is nice my body isn't beat up as as much anymore and you know it's life's all good after tennis but when you play for 17 years as you mentioned dan it's like you've

It becomes so routine and just so ingrained.

You wake up and you ask yourself the question, like, how am I going to get better today?

Even if you're not practicing on that day, you're still trying to get better, get your body better.

And that's what you don't have when you retire.

So it becomes difficult.

It was a difficult adjustment for me.

I think a lot of athletes, not just in tennis, face that, of course, when they retire.

Yeah, you know what?

I always said midway through my career and towards the end of my career that you wouldn't really see me on the tennis tour after I retired.

Clearly, I didn't hold myself to that.

I just quickly realized that this sport, for me, it gave so much to me.

There's still a lot of opportunities I can gain from in the sport of tennis after I retired.