As I said, it's the Grand Slam where I probably had the best record and from all the four Grand Slams for me. It's great honor.
Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.
But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
Every time I won the Grand Slam for the first time, it's more special than the others, and the ones behind that were not too shabby either.
I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
I have no humor, so disregard that.
I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.
I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.
I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.
I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.
I'm not going to put US Open above the Australian or the French above the US Open. I'm not going to do one or the other.
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
So in order to get better, you have to figure out how you're going to get better. So I worked on that and I took care of it.
So there are the players are more complete players now than they were 20 years ago, there's no question about that.
Well, they all have certain talents. You know, if you talk about hands, that's one talent. Hard work is talent as well. I think they all have certain talents. It's just the question is how can you calculate it and produce or make it come out so they can produce the best results with what they have.
You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.
He was a member of the Czechslovakian Davis Cup team when they won in 1980.
He has won a total of 94 singles titles.
He has won the Tennis Masters Cup 5 times.
His total career prize money is $21,262,417.
He retired in 1994.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2001.
He has won 8 Grand Slams. In 1984 he won the French Open. In 1985 he defeated John Mcenroe to claim the U.S Open title. In 1986 he won both the U.S Open and the French Open for a second time. In 1987 he claimed both Grand Slams for a third time. Then in 1989 and 1990 he won the Australian Open.
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