I didn’t have cable TV as a child, so I rarely saw tennis on our TV at home. But whenever I visited one of my father’s friends, there always seemed to be some tennis on his TV. Because of that, my earliest memories of tennis are of Martina, and Chrissy and John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors on a grass court in all white. When I got older and my family moved and had access to tennis on the TV, we watched it more often. We followed Pete Sampras, and Steffi Graf, and Monica Seles. We cheered and cri...

I didn’t have cable TV as a child, so I rarely saw tennis on our TV at home. But whenever I visited one of my father’s friends, there always seemed to be some tennis on his TV. Because of that, my earliest memories of tennis are of Martina, and Chrissy and John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors on a grass court in all white. When I got older and my family moved and had access to tennis on the TV, we watched it more often. We followed Pete Sampras, and Steffi Graf, and Monica Seles. We cheered and cri...