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00:00:00You
00:00:30When I played tennis for the first time I was 11, and I knew and I'll never forget it
00:00:35I knew at the end of the day that I found what I was gonna do with my life
00:01:01As
00:01:04You set out for Ithaca hope that your journey is a long one
00:01:09Full of adventure full of discovery discovery less dragon Ian's and Cyclops
00:01:15Do not be afraid of them
00:01:19Yeah, I just I didn't really think about past or future
00:01:23I just took it as it came, but I certainly was scared scared
00:01:27You won't encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul
00:01:32You gotta overcome your fears you gotta overcome your
00:01:37Doubts doubts may there be many summer mornings when with what pleasure what joy?
00:01:44You come into Harbor scene for the first time
00:01:47I think one of the most important things is to believe in and say you visit many Egyptian cities
00:01:54Learn and learn again from those who know you need to step out of your comfort keep Ithaca always in your mind
00:02:03Arriving there is what you are destined for I dreamt I believed I learned I
00:02:09Chained better if it lasts for years
00:02:12I hated to lose more than I love to win and that sort of was my motivation
00:02:17I want to be the number one player in the world
00:02:21Not expecting Ithaca to make you rich, but I never had anybody say no you can't do it
00:02:27It could gave you the marvelous journey
00:02:30But I want to stay here for years if I can
00:02:34She has nothing left to give you now that I want to follow my feeling and if you find her poor
00:02:41Ithaca won't have fooled you and remember there's only one in the entire world at that moment who can reach that wise as you will
00:02:48Have become so full of experience
00:02:51If you dream very strongly about something and you give everything you you have in your sight to reach your dream
00:02:58You can you can do it
00:03:01You will have understood by then
00:03:04What these Ithaca's mean I was that story?
00:03:18you
00:03:48you
00:03:50you
00:04:14Well I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland
00:04:16Which is on the Northeast Corridor of the United States. I was born in in Belarus coming from the
00:04:24background of the USSR that just they just broke up I come from Serbia and
00:04:30Of my growing up and my childhood, and I think all of those times
00:04:35I think have made me the person I am today. We talked about that a lot for about
00:04:40how great champions come from
00:04:44places that are
00:04:46usually
00:04:47in the lowest stratosphere of
00:04:49Nations because they have to find a way and claw their way out to enjoy what a gold at the end of the rainbow
00:04:56I think it can have a lot to do with it, but I don't think
00:05:00Geography is necessarily destiny my dad was a firefighter
00:05:03And my mother was a homemaker in the beginning that my mother eventually did work my dad was
00:05:09He was like a gun shearer meaning. He sheared sheep over a hundred sheep a day
00:05:16My father was a football player and my mother was a teacher
00:05:20If you're from the u.s.. Or from Europe things are too easy. I really don't buy it
00:05:26I don't I don't think it's true at all
00:05:28I think that these are individuals who come from all over the world for a variety of different reasons
00:05:35Really had a very extraordinary childhood because I had two very supportive parents. I loved going
00:05:41With my dad mushroom hunting we would get up at 5 in the morning and ride a little moped into the woods and
00:05:47Look for mushrooms. You know I had that I had that love. I mean my dad passed it on to me
00:05:52They only cared about us getting an education and being happy
00:05:57It is important that base
00:06:00Is important and not me not alone if you're an athlete or you want to become great at something?
00:06:06I always knew it came from love
00:06:07And I think that just gave me the foundation that no matter where life took me when we're born into this world
00:06:12We're born into families
00:06:15We don't choose our families, but we do have an opportunity to choose our destiny. I was a good student. I was very
00:06:23Obedient and I was like a b-plus student love school
00:06:27I was the kind of kid that wanted to do everything perfectly so in the school like I tried to always to do my best
00:06:34It was very important that
00:06:35To have the studies as well because at the end you can study a career and make another life as well
00:06:40The subjects came very easy to me and my parents always pushed me you have to finish school
00:06:44That's the most important thing it was hard for me to just sit still in one
00:06:49You know in a chair for the whole day and listen one thing my parents actually got me started in when I was really little
00:06:55was piano lessons and
00:06:57I hated it I
00:07:00Needed to be active and move around I like the breaks and it's when we did sports we play soccer a lot
00:07:06With the boys and everything, but you have to learn to learn
00:07:09I mean
00:07:10That's sometimes some things that
00:07:12Teaches you to overcome things that you don't always enjoy doing and then you have later in life
00:07:17You have the choice to to choose
00:07:18I grew up in a sporty family, and I was the little kid with so much energy
00:07:23We swam in the river in the summer skated on it in the winter
00:07:27Skied all the games and everything was interaction with kids and and doing stuff outside my brother and I
00:07:34Were always fascinated with the ball like the third word
00:07:39We ever learned in our lives was the word ball with mommy daddy and ball was the third word
00:07:45I think with a ball that was there
00:07:47Anything to do with a ball. I loved it. I didn't play with the toys
00:07:51I played with the tennis racket and with a ball and this was my toys
00:07:57The journey these women go through on the way to becoming world champions is
00:08:02The outer journey the one visible to us
00:08:06But there's an inner journey not visible to us an even more remarkable one the journey of her brain
00:08:13Because all the skills that we see all the athleticism the grace the strength is all governed by the brain
00:08:21This is where the real journey happens
00:08:27Oh
00:08:30Ball ball ball we always want to play catcher or kick the ball or just oh, we just love the ball
00:08:36Okay, my dad used to try and keep you know he's all his children. There was eight of us
00:08:43Entertained so he made up a racket out of an apple crate board very similar to this
00:08:50Then one day in fifth grade Susan Williams said she was sitting next to me
00:08:55She said do you want to play tennis, and I said what's tennis my two cousins?
00:08:59They were playing tennis so they took me to their tennis practice sometimes
00:09:04And I just was in the back picking up the balls
00:09:07And he gave it to my older sister and brother and I being the third youngest I went up took it off them
00:09:14and I wouldn't give it back and
00:09:16There it started that was the moment where I didn't stop
00:09:20Yeah, I my parents came home, and I told them I want to play tennis
00:09:24I just picked up the racket and me I just rolling the ball with the racket so because the racket was a little bit
00:09:29Bigger than me. I wanted to actually play soccer, but my dad was like no
00:09:32That's a sport for guys
00:09:33You know you're the youngest you want to follow up where you bigger brothers wants to do so you asked my brother to?
00:09:39start playing more tennis and
00:09:41You know when I saw him playing I was like oh, I need to do this as well
00:09:44He's often quite a random thing that will bring them to it and in other cases it can be very deliberate
00:09:50My mom was like you're going to piano lessons a couple times a week after your school
00:09:56And then I said yes, but the other days I can
00:09:59Go to tennis, and I even wrote down the the number of the tennis school that was advertising because no one in my family
00:10:06Played tennis they didn't know anything about the sport the family may say uh-huh
00:10:11We see this as a good sport for our daughter
00:10:14I think it's something that my dad saw that you know little girls could grow up and and do so I think
00:10:20That was one of the reasons he put a racket in my hand. It seems like it was by accident
00:10:25my mother
00:10:27Never had anything to do with tennis you just start working in the tennis center, and I came as a kid after school
00:10:34To just spend time with her gee this looks like a lot of fun. Why don't I try it also, okay?
00:10:40Let me hold a racket so my dad enrolled me in some junior little clinic
00:10:44I think is a seven-year-old kid and she gave me a racket to distract me so she could work
00:10:50It's kind of interesting that when they part from some of their family. I believe inwardly the
00:10:58Determination is perhaps a little higher not a guarantee
00:11:02But a little higher my dad played when he was younger and and my mom played my grandmother played my grandparents played
00:11:09And my parents loved to play tennis the initial contact that a young
00:11:14Child has with the sport needs to be a positive one if the first experience is positive
00:11:20Then they will want to naturally continue, so I used to always
00:11:25really enjoy going down in the club and
00:11:28Being with them
00:11:29I remember that day when the only thing that at that moment the tennis teacher said was just bounce the ball off the racket
00:11:36Maybe four years old
00:11:39The club manager who I was bugging everybody to play tennis with me play tennis throw some balls to me
00:11:44I couldn't get enough of it. He said okay kid go down to the backboard if you can hit seven balls in a row
00:11:50I'll give you this trophy. It's an extra trophy that we have left over from a tournament when you see a girl
00:11:56That is running after every ball
00:11:58That wants to get here on time
00:12:01Wants to hit the last ball, and if they miss that ball they want to hit it again
00:12:06It tells you her heart and the passion for the sport
00:12:10I came back running
00:12:11I don't know how long it was but I came back and said I hit seven times in a row so he gave me that
00:12:16Trophy and scratched seven times right into the metal. I love to play tennis
00:12:21I love to hit the ball the feeling on the strings and the ball hits the strings and you use all of yourself
00:12:27Oh my god. I love it. It's just it's fantastic the first time you strike a tennis ball, and you hit it cleanly and
00:12:34It sounds right and it feels good
00:12:38You want to keep doing that over and over again
00:12:41That's so true
00:12:42You know my my nine nine year old even two years ago when she was playing and she could barely hit the ball
00:12:48But she said to me you know I really like it when you hit it in the middle of the racket
00:12:52You don't even know that you hit the ball. It feels so nice. I want to do that
00:12:57She could barely hit the ball, but she got that so Mary is completely correct in that
00:13:02I kept hitting balls against house walls water tanks any wall
00:13:06I could see and this was long before I even saw a tennis court at home
00:13:12I was hitting on them on the wall of the kitchen, and it was maybe only two meters
00:13:17But I was hitting all the time what's really happening here is that her brain is learning physics
00:13:24physics of the ball
00:13:25Physics of the racket physics of her own body in interaction with the racket and the ball
00:13:32And I loved that wall my mom was saying that we really need a bigger house
00:13:36So I could express myself my parents set me down, okay?
00:13:40That's enough you know and as soon as they weren't looking I'd run back and go play against the wall again
00:13:44And it's all learned automatically naturally and unconsciously like when she learned to walk
00:13:51She learned by watching by imitating by experimenting with her own body with the physics of her own body
00:13:59And she learns very very quickly
00:14:02I really enjoy it, and I think that you know I have fun
00:14:05And that's the most important to be able to continue doing that yeah, I don't remember
00:14:10My life without tennis being a big part of it something deep inside of me
00:14:15Was just calling me always to tennis it was just just a fun
00:14:20I really I just fell in love with the sport from the first ball. I hit I loved it
00:14:26And they were hooked as little girls a lot of these women
00:14:31recognize at an early age that
00:14:34They can use their body in ways that the kids around them can't better than their brother or their sister
00:14:40So her play is very serious brain business indeed
00:14:44I think you can get very passionate about tennis at an early age already from the start
00:14:49It was my passion from the beginning that I first got in touch with it. I love speed and
00:14:55Tennis is a fast sport even at that age. You know almost pretty fast the one thing that's got to be obvious is
00:15:04a
00:15:05pure
00:15:06Enjoyment for being on the court and I love that they're traction to immediately
00:15:12To being on that tennis court. That's the first thing that I've always found that something whatever anyone's story is
00:15:19That's always been the common thread
00:15:21I never could understand if you threw the ball at somebody how can they not catch it? It's like
00:15:26So easy they start asking questions in their mind already about how do I want to hit my backhand?
00:15:33How do I win at my forehand I hand coordination?
00:15:36Which comes from the love of the sport and it begins with the love I swear
00:15:40And I didn't know I was excellent in it, but I guess what I like it was it was easy for me
00:15:45She looks at the ball and
00:15:47In an instant much less than a second her eye and brain visual part of her brain here in the occipital cortex
00:15:55Form a visual map of where the ball is in three-dimensional space the brain must coordinate the visual map
00:16:03With the motor map and form an action plan and now when she starts playing tennis
00:16:10The ball isn't just sitting there on a table
00:16:13It's coming at her very often a hundred miles an hour or even more and
00:16:17this adds another a fourth dimension to what her brain has to calculate the dimension of time and
00:16:23Now to make things even more complicated
00:16:26The hand isn't her real hand
00:16:29It's the sweet spot of a racket 18 inches away from her hand which has now been incorporated
00:16:36into her body space by her brain I
00:16:40Didn't know I had that talent until later
00:16:42But I just loved it so great eye hand coordination means having superior function and at least four brain areas
00:16:50the visual area
00:16:52decision-making
00:16:53motor planning and
00:16:55motor execution all
00:16:58Coordinated perfectly in four dimensions
00:17:03Our hand-eye coordination is exceptional that I had this blessing that I wasn't gonna waste it and I was gonna give it everything I had
00:17:13I
00:17:25Was five years old and I remember feeling very resentful
00:17:29It was like you're taking me away from going over to my girlfriend's house going swimming having barbecues
00:17:34And now I'm going over with you, and you're throwing tennis balls at at me
00:17:40or to me in
00:17:42From a shopping cart as you grow especially as a young girl you go through a lot of stages
00:17:48Emotionally and physically in your in your life and a lot of things change the way you think the things that you want
00:17:55Frustrated even then because I couldn't speak up and say but I you know
00:17:58Can I go over three days a week and go to my girlfriend's house three days a week?
00:18:03So I want to have fun. I want to be a kid. I did not want ten lines
00:18:06I wanted to look pretty like my other
00:18:08You know kids in school and go to school and have a normal life also
00:18:13you need to leave some things behind because
00:18:16That you are you know want to be with your friends and sometimes you were in the pool and suddenly you have to leave the
00:18:22Pool, it's okay because you have to have to go practice and some days
00:18:25Yeah, I was having fun with my friends and Sally I can hear the coach say okay Arantxa
00:18:29Let's go. We have to go practice. I think at that age. It's not a conscious thing to say
00:18:33Oh, I'm gonna say no to my friends who are over here doing something different
00:18:38I think there's maybe an element of that. There's a moment of oh, am I gonna miss out?
00:18:43Well, maybe I miss out over there, but this thing is more important to me. This thing's more fun
00:18:48So this is where I want to spend my time
00:18:50I can see
00:18:52Where a conflict could be there if you felt socially you were missing out or if you felt tennis was taking you away from
00:18:58Things that you enjoyed I really I can say I didn't miss it because I had a lot of friends
00:19:03From in our tennis club my social life was at the tennis club
00:19:07You don't look at as a sacrifice you look at doing what you want to do in doing what you need to do
00:19:13I never felt that I was
00:19:16Missing something. I don't remember once that there was a time when I said, I don't want to go play tennis
00:19:22Not once and I asked other people I asked other players a couple other like Arantxa and I have to say, okay
00:19:29I have to leave my friends, but I go and that's because I wanted to do it
00:19:32So it was not a moment for me difficult to make that
00:19:35You know that step because I enjoy what I was doing at the time. I didn't even see that as a sacrifice
00:19:41I saw that as my choice. Karolina Bozniakia said it was it was there ever any time where you didn't want to go play?
00:19:46I knew that it would come with some choices and I
00:19:49Choose the word choices because I don't want to use the word sacrifice because in the end
00:19:54You you have to decide what you want
00:19:56And they all wanted to play as you get older and more mature and you look back you say wow
00:20:02I really sacrificed a lot, but did I really because I was doing what I wanted to do
00:20:18You can be so much better
00:20:20You can be a champion. I can help take you there
00:20:23Here's what you need to do. If you're a young girl and you're hearing that from someone you admire
00:20:29Someone you trust someone you respect those words have gravitas
00:20:33There's so much more weight to them because you believe what they're telling you
00:20:38You know it, you know, it's true
00:20:40I think when you start the journey your mentors are your parents because they are the ones that believe in you at all costs
00:20:46No matter what you do how good you are how bad you are
00:20:49Um, my mentor was always my mother because she knew me the best
00:20:53I mean she knew my journey and she was always there along with me on this journey. There are many parents
00:21:00That if it wasn't for them to encourage their child
00:21:04Keep trying
00:21:06Many of the children would have dropped out and it was fun to be able to share it with my mom
00:21:11Never had a crossword always encouraging always positive and without her
00:21:17I would never have made that he or she has to be able to criticize
00:21:23While
00:21:24Supporting and not tearing down the young players self-confidence because the outer game
00:21:30Suffers if the inner game is plagued with noise the noise in this case is
00:21:36excessive self-doubt
00:21:38negative inner dialogue
00:21:40excessive self-criticism and
00:21:43There's a subtlety to that and there's an inner peace to letting go of the things
00:21:49You can't control and the drive to push yourself to be everything you can be
00:21:54She inspired me to have fun at everything you do and that's that's one of the
00:22:01things that sort of
00:22:02Got me through my whole career brain scientists have known for a long time
00:22:08That this kind of noise
00:22:10Activates the amygdala or the fear center of the brain just wanted me to
00:22:15Be the best I can be and she knew how much I love tennis so she made sure
00:22:22That anything I do I have an opportunity to go there and when the amygdala is sending out fear signals
00:22:30it interrupts learning and decision-making and
00:22:35Sabotages the flow of play my dad was really important. I think
00:22:39Psychologically that he believed in me as much good because in the world
00:22:43That's not the way it is
00:22:45And I and I understood that but he my dad Bill believed in me. I'm naturally
00:22:53An insecure person, but he made me confident through my in my tennis and and he didn't push it on me
00:23:00But he was like, yeah, you're like saying, okay, you're good at this do what what makes you feel, right?
00:23:05My dad believed in me from the beginning. He knew I was exceptionally talented on
00:23:10Athletically anyway, he was the one that really had a had a big dream for me
00:23:21The dynamic between a father and daughter
00:23:24That is one of the the greatest forces in
00:23:28Humanity
00:23:29Right, just how much you want to please your father that has great power
00:23:35So what a good mentor is doing is helping the young player calm her inner noise, which is more than just psychological
00:23:42It's physiological. There's nothing magic in the formula of a player finding a coach and a coach wanting to help a player
00:23:51There's got to be trust and there's got to be respect and if you don't trust
00:23:57Very difficult
00:23:59For a student to keep climbing that mountain so trust is a key word not only on the athletic field
00:24:07but on everything that happens in your whole life in life you meet people and
00:24:12Sometimes you stop and you say okay this person can be very important
00:24:16There is a connection and you have to recognize them and you need to find the pushers
00:24:22that will give you their energy as much as you can and
00:24:25And then you need to recognize it and thank them for it bless them for it biggest day probably in my life was
00:24:33When they brought in a young pro. He was 27 years old. His name was Robert Lansdorp and
00:24:39Perfect time in my life because I was serious about tennis and he was very serious and very demanding and
00:24:48Very tough on his students and on his people. It's a very personal relationship
00:24:52so there has to be a feeling between the two there has to be an understanding and there has to be a mutual respect at
00:24:5814 I I met my
00:25:00my coach my
00:25:02Carlos Rodriguez has been my coach forever and very quickly. I felt okay. This guy can help me. I think a mentor
00:25:11Responsibility is far more than just teaching them how to hit
00:25:17How to prepare how to accept defeat
00:25:21How to accept that you have to give the extra mile he was more than than a coach
00:25:26He was a little bit of father brother a friend. You gotta go through the ups and downs the emotional part, you know, because that's what
00:25:35start to
00:25:36Put the stones together. He was the person that when I need him, you know, I didn't feel you know good or something happened to me
00:25:44Okay, I'll talk to you because this is happening to me, you know, and you know me better than anyone
00:25:47So help me you need somebody who was just telling you come on you you are good
00:25:52You we know how good you are. You just needs to believe in yourself
00:25:56so it's essential to have people that support you, but also there are realistic and
00:26:01but most of all
00:26:03positive no matter what I
00:26:12Think in the beginning young champions aren't aware of
00:26:16Of where they've just taken themselves
00:26:19Well, I think to grow as a player or as a person you need to step out of your comfort zone
00:26:24Nothing great ever comes out of comfort zones
00:26:27Yeah
00:26:27When I turned 12, I went down to Boca Raton to Florida and went to Chris Everett's Tennis Academy
00:26:33And I think actually a couple years before that maybe when I was 10, I came down to Florida for a US
00:26:40USTA camp the second year they saw the coaches saw that I had improved
00:26:45So they called the head coach in Sydney Vic Edwards and said I think we've got somebody here
00:26:52I didn't know this was happening at the time obviously so they gave me the opportunity, you know, the German Federation that they have a
00:26:59Place to train in Spain in Marbella two seconds. I said, okay, I'm going I want to play tennis
00:27:04I want to prove I want to get better
00:27:06I appeared there and I did not speak a word of English. I
00:27:11Felt at the time like I was thrown on
00:27:15to another planet I
00:27:17Didn't know what's going on the first three months. I suffer a lot. It's just a totally different world
00:27:22I got a toughen up here, you know, I am competing
00:27:27Practicing day in day out
00:27:29And I think that kind of pushed me even a little bit more because they really weren't too many girls in the Academy those days
00:27:35It was a whole new life going to Sydney for the first time
00:27:39Everything was tennis tennis tennis. You need to be prepared that her pathway her journey is heading towards the top
00:27:47Of women's tennis and you need to be prepared for that as her parents
00:27:58That's when your world starts to open up when you start to leave Los Angeles
00:28:02You start to now venture out into national tournaments. I think they jump on that boat and
00:28:08Take off knowing that the seas will be kind to them. The skies will be blue. I think I cried every night
00:28:16Cried myself to sleep because I was so homesick, but I never did tell my parents. I never told my mom because I thought
00:28:24She would probably take me back to Burrell and I never let me travel away again
00:28:29They travel around the world they have to operate independently they have to make their own decisions
00:28:36Prematurely, I remember my first national junior tournament. I was 11 years of age
00:28:41I remember sometimes at night I would lay in my bed and I would cry and because I felt so
00:28:45Uncomfortable and I stayed with a family in Little Rock, Arkansas. I didn't speak French
00:28:50I remember going to France for the first time and and we had to eat fish soup and I didn't like fish soup and I
00:28:55Felt so bad because I I didn't want to be rude to the people and say that I didn't like their food
00:29:00So I remember when I was 10 years old
00:29:02I had to fly all the way back from the United States by myself and that's quite an experience for a 10 year old
00:29:07You enjoy the moment and and you know
00:29:11Maybe something can happen and you don't you don't understand how the way is gonna be long and tough and difficult
00:29:18I feel really emotional about it. Like I don't know how
00:29:22How I went through it because looking back it's pretty
00:29:26Extraordinary to be able to go through that most young girls who want to be tennis champions
00:29:32Understand what that means and they accept that they're willing to take that on
00:29:36But then once I got through those first struggles, I loved it to me
00:29:40You know being at tournaments was the greatest thing I could I could do I was home for two days and I was like, okay
00:29:47When can we go when like when can I go again?
00:29:49It was just questioning of doing the best and and traveling and try to live my dream
00:30:03I turned eight I read this cartoon magazine story and the story was called princess magazine and
00:30:11The story that I read was about a young girl who was found trained and taken to this place called Wimbledon
00:30:19Where she played on this magical center court and she won, you know when I was
00:30:2510 years old
00:30:26I went to Roland Garros with my mom and we were watching the final graph against Celeste and and I I said to her
00:30:33One day I'll be on that court and I'll win. So really that's where my dream started
00:30:3911 I said, I want to be number one player in the world. I told my mom when she came to pick me up and
00:30:44She wasn't too impressed and I was 10 years old and and she looked at me. She said oh, yeah
00:30:50Probably thinking she's dreaming keep keep dreaming
00:30:53Maybe I was 10 or something like that and I I say into the camera
00:30:59I'm like I want to be the number one player in the world and there's only one in a million that could
00:31:06Be number one in the world
00:31:09Even as children six eight or ten years of age
00:31:12They have a dream
00:31:14The dream is so vivid and so strong that they are able to maintain
00:31:19focus and dedication over a long span of time you
00:31:24creo que
00:31:26que hay que soñar
00:31:28y
00:31:29Y disfrutar siempre cada instante is the dream that fuels the the journey and starts the journey
00:31:37Yeah, I think they they've had the vision that they have the internal discipline
00:31:42to
00:31:44Execute the work with you know
00:31:46No, hope that really is going to happen just their mindset their perseverance that they're keep working until they achieve that dream
00:31:55These ladies didn't know they were gonna be world number ones
00:31:58That was the dream and that was the goal and that's what they fought every day for
00:32:02But there was no guarantee on that now remember the child's brain understands time very differently than we adults do
00:32:10To a child one year is a very long time
00:32:13So this is quite an amazing feat and everyone thought it was crazy to dream like that
00:32:19I really talk a lot about the dream because I feel if you dream very strongly about something and you give everything you
00:32:27You have in your sight to reach your dream. You can you can do it
00:32:49You
00:33:19You
00:33:30As you know that then his game is a very expensive game
00:33:34really expensive
00:33:36You have to be playing first of all the best kids in your area
00:33:40Then the best kids in your region then the best kids in your country and then the best kissed
00:33:45Internationally because you need to to buy your material you need to go to a tennis academy or to a tennis club
00:33:51So the membership cost money the the academies cost money when a junior player starts either
00:33:56They've got some help from the Federation or the parents have to sacrifice a lot
00:34:02So you have to be fortunate to come from a federation from a country that can also support
00:34:08You know the players who are trying to make it on poor the travel to Asia's to travel to the Middle East
00:34:14South America it's playing on different surfaces and all that requires different equipment. You need to pay for a coach
00:34:22You are staying in different hotels
00:34:24It's a global sport most people can't afford that people are these people are usually coming from pretty ordinary families
00:34:30I remember not being able to afford it and crying and my mom saying it's okay
00:34:35You know one day you will play nine years old my first tournament
00:34:38My dad was with me and my mom had to come and bring us money because we ran out of money
00:34:42I wouldn't be here today unless I had that initial support of the townspeople of Berlin
00:34:49I mean they supported not just me
00:34:52But the whole family and bought my suitcase my clothes everything because we couldn't afford it
00:34:57And this is town 50 kilometers away, but back then that was a big trip. You know because we don't have a car
00:35:03We rode on the motorcycle. I don't even know how my mom took a bus
00:35:06I don't even know she got there tennis wasn't popular sport in Serbia, so we didn't have system
00:35:11We didn't have support when I was 12 year old when I even before I won the Spanish national championship
00:35:16I find a company that
00:35:19Believe me. It's called pastas la familia. They love tennis and they sponsor me and they say okay
00:35:25We're gonna do it as I was
00:35:2714 15 I am my manager
00:35:31Sort of stepped in and it was my sponsor at the time
00:35:33And it was very important times for me because there was someone outside of Serbia who actually believed in me and invested in me
00:35:40I have to thank them because they always been there since the first moment even when I was not a champion or anything
00:35:45You know just a normal kid
00:35:48They were my angels that they're waiting for me and helping me at the moment
00:35:52And we all went in the same direction and we become like a happy end
00:36:03So I had the fun part now it's time for the hard work when I left my country
00:36:07I wasn't owned for six years. I didn't have a coach. I didn't have anybody I
00:36:11Thought I was doing pretty well
00:36:14So I started training physically. I never looked back. I only believe like in hard work that always pays off
00:36:21It is said that it requires at least 10,000 hours of practice become expert at something
00:36:28I had to get up. I had to eat a certain way. I had to warm up
00:36:32I had to train a certain way. I had to be in the gym for two hours
00:36:35I had to practice four hours a day
00:36:37Well, if you want to play you want to be able to reach balls and hit half volleys and get the impossible ball
00:36:44Yes, you want to stay pretty
00:36:46But you got to work physically man. You've got to work physically, but it's not just physical practice
00:36:53It's brain practice your talent might be you can be a hard worker like
00:36:58Unbelievable and that that's gonna take you to the end of the journey, you know to a beautiful one
00:37:03The hardest part about tennis is the is the preparation
00:37:07because you spend so many hours on court just
00:37:10Preparing for this one moment when you walk out on that court to play a match and knowing that you're 100% prepared
00:37:17the painful part is
00:37:20Creating new brain circuits. This is very difficult work for the brain to be doing even when I was practicing
00:37:26And I would have like a hard practice like really like suffering and then I would finish the practice house sit in the chair
00:37:33Like yeah, wake up very early go to school or play tennis before my school then come back and do other lessons
00:37:41And then come back and sleep. That's how my days were
00:37:45It was more like an army was more like I was being a little soldier
00:37:50What her brain is doing is it's building up a library of patterns
00:37:56patterns of ball behavior
00:37:58But not only that patterns of play a library that she can call on in her own play
00:38:05It gives me like power like I made that step like I know that if it comes in the match
00:38:11I can handle it you build yourself physically emotionally mentally
00:38:16If you have the two of those things
00:38:19That's pretty promising
00:38:21Starts to be the world for you. There is no other world around you. It's the tennis world
00:38:29You
00:38:35Rivalry is a must in
00:38:38order for students to reach the top levels a part of
00:38:43The process is getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
00:38:47The rival doesn't suddenly show up in the middle of your career
00:38:51The rival is there from the first time that you play and it stays with you all along
00:38:55My mom was the first one in the family that I beat me to my grandmother was a big thing for me
00:39:00It's in the nature of tennis from the minute that you pick up a racket for me
00:39:04it's always that initial walk out on the crowd when it's just you and your opponent and
00:39:09Everyone's there to see just you to play at the beginning. It's everyone is your rival when you're 15
00:39:14You don't know anyone you don't understand at that point who your rivals are
00:39:19You're just entering and you're just trying to do the best the best you can
00:39:23I don't always know a lot about my opponents. So
00:39:27When they rise and then everyone gets to know them
00:39:29That's probably when I know a little bit more. Otherwise when I look across the net, I don't I don't see the name or the face
00:39:35I'm just you know trying to put my ball in the court. Hopefully
00:39:39definitely, you're starting at the bottom rung and you're just trying to win some matches and
00:39:45Get stronger her brain begins to gather a whole other set of statistics learning to read the opponent
00:39:52And learning to read the opponent is literally the first step in reading the ball
00:39:57I call this body surveillance. You need to feel uncomfortable. You have to get some bad beatings out there on court
00:40:05rivals
00:40:06Improved my game, you know, that was a very important component of my
00:40:11improving and my
00:40:14Developing into a better tennis player was having the Yvonne gula gongs and Billie Jean Kings and Martina Navratilova's
00:40:21Your opponents help you bring help bring the best out of your game. That's how you everybody improves. It's something that
00:40:28motivates
00:40:30that
00:40:31Stimulates to become better in every way mentally physically
00:40:35Emotionally you have to push yourself to the limits playing your best tennis because they pushing you modern neuroscience
00:40:43Has found cells in the brain that do this body surveillance. They're called mirror neurons
00:40:49So mirror neurons help us read another's intentions and predict what they are about to do
00:40:55This means that she has to predict the shot before the shot. So that's part of it
00:41:00You have to have a good mind you have to have good logic
00:41:03Which is one of the reasons why I say these high-level athletes if they chose to go into medicine or any other high-level career
00:41:09Which many of them do?
00:41:10They're perfectly capable of it because they're already functioning at that high level. They just don't realize it. They think it's just a sport
00:41:17No, it's a lot more than just a sport. The top tennis players are able to observe the smallest gesture of their opponent
00:41:27In the critical areas that telegraphed to them what's about to happen and
00:41:33Thus it's quite likely
00:41:36that championship players
00:41:38Have championship mirror neurons. I had a big rivalry
00:41:42I guess against my hero growing up in the beginning Margaret Court Chris Everett and Martina Ravitalova
00:41:50They made each other cry
00:41:52Like every other weekend somebody was going to be in that locker room crying
00:41:56Perhaps both would have won more titles that the other one not been there
00:41:59But we will not have become as good a tennis player had the other one not been there that rivalry will never be surpassed
00:42:05I mean they played each other 80 times over about 20 years
00:42:08She was my big rival and we had pushed each other
00:42:11My first kind of rivalry was definitely one that also lasted through my whole career was with Justine in there
00:42:18Of course with Kimmy was special because we were from the same country. So the attention was
00:42:23So big Tracy Austin, but she was my first nemesis my first rival and we played
00:42:30Junior tournaments until we played professional. I wouldn't say I wanted to be like her, but I
00:42:36Admired her for how she was and of course
00:42:39There's this great clash in styles this contrast in personality in looks in background
00:42:45Now that I think back about it. It always kind of was created and it was made
00:42:50To grow into something
00:42:52Amazing want to beat the heck out of each other
00:42:55But they also respected each other from a young age already was a good one
00:43:00It was a healthy one that helped both of us to become better I did not like her most of my professional career
00:43:08But my maturity it was it was me that needed to change because then and thank goodness
00:43:15We actually have become really great friends to this day. She's one of my best friends
00:43:22Really? We've always been very close. We are emotional as females and therefore
00:43:27We are sensitive and we have sympathy and empathy and everything else that comes with it on courts
00:43:34We are opponents and we are trying to not thinking about our friendship
00:43:39we are just trying to play our best win against each other and maybe the quality of the
00:43:45people can make the rivalry that big and
00:43:50Also the quality of people allows us to be friends
00:43:54That's first time I just thought of that
00:43:56My most important moment was receiving a phone call from Martina Navratilova to play doubles with her
00:44:03I always liked each other as people
00:44:06She makes me laugh. We had a chemistry. We had this special
00:44:11wonderful chemistry together that just made us
00:44:14Most people think the best doubles team ever and and it's funny because Pam was my partner and Chris was my nemesis
00:44:20But they are the two people from the tour that I trust implicitly. I know I could say
00:44:26Anything to them and it's safe
00:44:27I could call either one of them at 3 in the morning and say I need you and they would be on the next plane
00:44:32You know, no questions asked once we are off the court. We're just friends. We hang out
00:44:36we have a good time and and you know, I think it could be very lonely if if we just
00:44:42If no one spoke to each other's you start losing or you feel the crowds against you
00:44:47Things just don't go your way no matter how hard you try
00:44:50Then it's lonely. This is a one-on-one sport. It's a lonely sport, man
00:44:56It attracts people who are good about taking off on their own and taking on
00:45:03The journey when you are in a mission like that, it's always lonely
00:45:08there are always times you're gonna feel like
00:45:11Nobody gets this you feel like you're on an island sometimes when you're on the court
00:45:16Just because you're there by yourself and your team's kind of off in the distance
00:45:20but every person including myself has had a great team that's really
00:45:26You know hoisted them up and and given them confidence and helped them through some of the valleys and then you know
00:45:32Celebrated at the top of the mountain with them as well. You do not succeed
00:45:37Alone, so anybody thinks they've done it just by themselves
00:45:41It doesn't happen
00:45:42The whole trick is called a pyramid
00:45:45The team which means the family and the coach and the student because as individual sport as it is
00:45:51You need a team around you now. Everybody's got a team
00:45:54I think that overdoing it a bit at an early age your team normally starts out as your mom or your dad and
00:46:01your coach and
00:46:02At some point that starts to grow the structure around that has to be healthy in order to nurture that person
00:46:09not only the
00:46:11tennis development
00:46:12But the person it's about the guidance and you do find yourself inside of a bubble
00:46:19These are the people they can count on
00:46:21These are the people they know that they can tell they're good and bad times too and it stays
00:46:25Within the group for sure that the entourage that they have around it's very important to them
00:46:30But also it's important to just have the time for myself and just leaving my team in the hotel or at home
00:46:38If they are living breathing thinking about tennis 24 hours a day
00:46:43They will not become champions. I'm guaranteeing
00:46:47This is really important to find the balance between like the professional way and also your life
00:46:54But at the end of the day that the athlete is the leader is the athlete who lift up everybody's spirit
00:47:00It's not it's not us. It's the athlete who shows us the way again
00:47:05It goes back to the fact that it's an individual sport. So there is only you on court playing the match
00:47:10It's not your mom. It's not your dad
00:47:11It's not your coach
00:47:12You are alone on that court and you need to figure out a way to win you win you get all the credit you lose
00:47:17You get all the blame. I mean, it's it's on you. You can't blame anybody else
00:47:21There are no substitutions and you're not allowed to have your coach around you all the time. The clock doesn't run out
00:47:28It's just you out there
00:47:35I
00:47:49Want to win and losing the kids to death I
00:47:55Want to win I
00:47:57Remember that I hate to lose even if I play tennis I play soccer. I always wanted to win
00:48:02The only reason I kept playing piano was I had to be better than my sister
00:48:09Whatever it was I was very competitive
00:48:12Maybe that was an early sign that I would have some competitive fire. That was different from most others. I
00:48:20Just want to win
00:48:22Just because it was a challenge. I think I
00:48:25Used to compete against myself. I used to ride my bicycle around our
00:48:29Yard right around and time myself see how fast I can go and then I would try to go faster
00:48:35And there was nobody there. It was just me
00:48:38It's almost like a hunger for something or a need or it you need it
00:48:42You need it because you take you give everything of yourself
00:48:48Older younger. I don't care
00:48:50It's about winning. I don't know if it sounds good on camera and I was drug. It was like drugs. I
00:48:57Enjoyed that I enjoyed winning and I enjoyed that feeling and that high when you win a match you get hooked on it right away
00:49:04It is addictive all top athletes will tell you in a sense that that they are addicted to the positive feelings
00:49:12The nucleus accumbens is packed
00:49:15with neurons that release
00:49:18so-called good feeling hormones
00:49:21Endogenous opiates called endorphins as well as dopamine in order to be a champion in
00:49:27Anything in business and life as a mother whatever it is. You have to fail sometimes
00:49:33Now, how do I react to that? I need the time to get
00:49:37Calm to relax to come down and then after like few hours
00:49:42then I can speak with my coach with my team sitting down together, but I'm the person who just
00:49:48Go and
00:49:50Please next tournament. Tennis is such a
00:49:53Complex game, you know, you have to have the head for it, you know, not just the physical part of it
00:50:00so it's about being mentally strong as well and
00:50:03figuring out how to
00:50:04Have that one last push and that starts and ends with a drive from the inside out
00:50:11Mentally emotionally being a champion at the mental game means being a champion at three things
00:50:18self-awareness
00:50:19emotional resilience and being able to maintain
00:50:23positive outlook
00:50:25Self-awareness is absolutely vital and being great and also to know about your strengths always always practice your strengths
00:50:33What I like about all athletes what I like about all sports is watching
00:50:39Champions reset. I mean it's a great life lesson for anybody the top players have to have
00:50:46Incredible emotional resilience, you know, you don't have two or three weeks that you can feel sorry for yourself
00:50:52You got to be able to bounce back and come back and compete the next day
00:50:55You learn more when you lose than when you win when you lose it's sort of like whoa
00:51:01I better work on this my volley and I better work on my moving because you I don't like to lose
00:51:06But my daddy said to me son is not how you fail, but how you get up
00:51:12They keep getting up. I
00:51:15Always get better when I lose so as much as I don't like it
00:51:18It helps me to get better and not do it as much
00:51:23Maybe sometimes the losses, you know make you better
00:51:26But also it is important to learn from your wins
00:51:29It made me more hungry and it made me realize like okay
00:51:33I have to try and work harder to become better and so that I don't lose
00:51:38Learn from the things what you did good how you feel in this moment and just find the way to
00:51:44Learn from wins, but also trying of course to learn from the losers. There are certain players
00:51:51who are able to take go forward without any concern for what has happened and
00:51:57I admire those players tremendously and they're gonna keep going back to the drawing board every day
00:52:06To get better physically mentally and emotionally all the champions are so motivated
00:52:12It's an insuppressible desire to win and compete second place is just not acceptable
00:52:18I have to win. I hate it losing so winning was the only option
00:52:23It is the ultimate sporting experience to watch somebody out in a tough match against a great opponent
00:52:31Losing and thinking wait there has got to be a way I can win this match
00:52:38I'm gonna die, but I'm not gonna lose to you
00:52:43That's when you see if you have a real champion nobody actually dies in this war
00:52:49But the brain is in a war state nevertheless
00:53:01Oh my goodness
00:53:05Being competitive it's funny because I think people say oh you're so competitive and it's almost like a put-down
00:53:12But only with women they don't ever say about a guy. Oh, he's so competitive
00:53:17Well, it goes without saying guys are supposed to be competitive but women not so much as a girl in those days
00:53:23I already knew things were different for a girl than a boy. I knew that people listen to boys and
00:53:29The boys had more opportunity by then
00:53:31And so I knew that my road would be different and that would be probably more difficult than if I were a boy
00:53:42So ideally I wanted the men and women together
00:53:45To own everything. Okay own everything all the terms are the men rejected us the women
00:53:50Okay, and I kept reject
00:53:51I kept going back and these are my friends the guys I go dancing with go to dinner with who I adore
00:53:56And they said get long they're just laughing at us
00:53:59Okay, like you must be joking Billy's has always been about getting the men and women together
00:54:05She was just trying to say this is how the world should be. This is how
00:54:11Girls should be treated the same way as boys
00:54:13Everyone should have the same opportunity and I believed her as a little girl plan B for me was okay
00:54:18We're gonna have to figure something out. So Billy called a woman
00:54:23Her name was Gladys Hellman and Gladys was the publisher of tennis magazine, would you do a tournament for us?
00:54:29Can we start to try to think of what we can do here a glass did find a sponsor and they held their first
00:54:35professional event
00:54:36Women's only outside of the establishment for $5,000 in Houston
00:54:41We always look at it when we look back in history that in
00:54:451970 the original nine and Gladys Hellman really started the tour
00:54:50And those nine women
00:54:53Who had the courage to?
00:54:56Stand up to the establishment. I had to sign a $1 contract to play that
00:55:01Moment when we signed that $1 contract is the birth of women's professional tennis
00:55:08Title nine was
00:55:10approved in
00:55:121972 says no sex discrimination. So that means if you get federal money
00:55:17That men or women have to be given money equally for the first time
00:55:22So I think that sort of opened the door at that time
00:55:26For women to begin to get scholarships throughout our country in all sports. Not just in tennis
00:55:361973 was really a pivotal year in women's sports and for women because so much
00:55:42Happened in that year Billie Jean founded the WTA. It was at Wimbledon
00:55:471973 they were in the Gloucester Hotel 63 woman
00:55:51Billy said we are not leaving this room
00:55:55Until we all agree that we are going to form our own association and it was started on a basic premise
00:56:04Trying to create a better future I
00:56:07Played this guy Bobby Riggs in 1973, which is humongous in the States
00:56:12to a certain degree outside the States, but
00:56:14It was madness. It was something similar to the moment when we watched
00:56:21Neil Armstrong land on the moon and I it was a big big deal
00:56:26And I just had to beat him because if I hadn't I think it would have hurt the tour
00:56:29I would think I felt like it was gonna set women back another 50 years. We're already not even even anyway
00:56:35So I was like there's so much pressure. That was real pressure. It's one match
00:56:41That's it. It wasn't about women's tennis at all
00:56:45It was about the advancement of women and how that match changed the world
00:56:52for so many
00:56:54Little girls and women in the United States and around the world. I
00:56:59Think I really think that match put women's tennis out there
00:57:05So, you know, she's just Billy's just incredible, you know
00:57:08She did all in 1973 forms the WTA does the Battle of the sexes wins Grand Slams and lest we forget
00:57:15Advocated for equal prize money at the US Open and 1973 was the first year that the US Open paid equal prize money
00:57:23So I wasn't going there just asking and please please we actually brought extra money to the table the board of the USDA said
00:57:31But we'll do equal prize money in 1973
00:57:33Billie Jean King was unbelievable. She really was a fighter. That's why
00:57:38When she stopped playing tennis, she became so successful
00:57:41And running the game and helping day after day
00:57:47We're now at a place we're gonna be in 56 events around the world. Not just the United States and
00:57:55Including the four Grand Slams playing for over 150 million dollars in prize money. So the growth has been tremendous
00:58:03You know this whole
00:58:04industry of women's tennis it
00:58:07transcends
00:58:09The court and it really has been about empowering women
00:58:15Through the sport on and off the court
00:58:18but it was a moment of the empowerment of a mujer de no tener miedo y
00:58:23Ser capaces de afrontar todo lo que queramos porque todas podemos alcanzar nuestras simas
00:58:28This was our goal in the end any girl in the world that's born if she's good enough
00:58:34there'll be a place for her to compete and
00:58:39She'll be recognized and appreciated for her accomplishments not just her looks and that she'll be able to make a living
00:58:48You know, you're building something and when you're a young junior and you start to play well and you start to win many titles
00:58:55I mean, I think that's just gradually the next step just about to turn 15 going to my father and saying that I need to talk to
00:59:03I want to turn professional and my dad like sat me down and says you're gonna have a lot of heartbreak along the way
00:59:08You're not gonna win all the time. You're going to it's gonna be very difficult
00:59:11Yes, I'm like no problem. Yes, I'm willing to pay that price. You're doing something that you've always done
00:59:17Now you're just doing it in a different arena and you're getting paid to do it to be honest
00:59:22You don't even think about it. It's really like step-by-step. I wanted to be
00:59:26Professional so but I didn't plan it the time it would be
00:59:30I just wanted to be a professional and I just wanted to be able to do what I wanted to do
00:59:35I wanted to be
00:59:37Professional so but I didn't plan it the time it would be okay. Now. It's it's the time to go to the next step
00:59:45it was just the right timing and
00:59:47It was going always to be become a professional tennis player. It was a very natural
00:59:54Progression there was no I'm gonna turn pro next year or next month
00:59:58It was okay
00:59:59I'm on the tour now and I can compete and I can actually make a living at it because now there is prize money
01:00:03And I kind of like the fact that it just kind of happened organically and wasn't planned when you're young and you first come on
01:00:10Tour and you're excited to play and you want to play the top players to see kind of where your game is
01:00:15It's nice when you first come on tour because you think less and I think that's also an advantage and a disadvantage
01:00:21I felt there was much more pressure in junior tennis for me because I was playing my best friends and I was playing my sister
01:00:27And I was playing my peers playing with girls my own age
01:00:31And that's where the pressure was. So you have to start to
01:00:35Yeah to make
01:00:37Adult decisions decisions all of a sudden and I was still a baby. I was 14 years old. I was a kid
01:00:42They were turning pro. They were still in diapers and they're turning pro 16 17. I started playing 25 30 year olds. I
01:00:51Felt no pressure at all and I could sense that they were feeling all the pressure
01:00:54But I had to play older people exactly what Chris was saying. They had the pressure to beat me not vice versa
01:01:00Yeah, like Chris said, you know, you don't have pressure because you think okay. I'm just beginning my journey
01:01:05There's a moment of time where you cross over from this is what you're doing because you love this sport
01:01:12And this is your dream and your pursuit
01:01:14to where that
01:01:16Road meets with sponsors and the business world agents are gonna find you, you know coaches are gonna want you
01:01:24Federations are gonna claim you for their own
01:01:27So it's you cannot be naive any longer
01:01:30I kind of knew that I was a pretty good tennis player when I was 11 when I had
01:01:35Couple of agents come to my former country and tried to sign me
01:01:39So, you know there was already a buzz and and you know at 11 you're like wow
01:01:43I'm that good that I need an agent and things like that. The player has a goal and that goal is
01:01:50Most of the time to be the number one tennis player in the world
01:01:53So my job is to help the player achieve that goal both on the court and off the court
01:01:58There is now an awareness if you are good, you're an investment
01:02:03Would estimate that it's some upwards of 350 to 400 million dollar
01:02:08Enterprise without the sponsors in the business
01:02:11The dream doesn't exist if you're the greatest person in the world and you look great, but you don't win
01:02:16Well, then you're not gonna get paid either the player needs to give more than just
01:02:22Perform on court that drives everything but there's all sorts of
01:02:27Auxiliary benefits as well, and they also have to be available
01:02:30Can't tell you the importance of maintaining your own ability to decide for yourself
01:02:36Not not to sell any rights or to take away your power to progress because you accepted
01:02:44Financial aid that is that is much more than financial aid
01:02:48So that adds a whole new dimension and much more complications for a young girl. I mortgaged my house. I borrowed money
01:02:57Why are you doing this? You've got to win, you know, my dad kind of being
01:03:01the
01:03:03strong
01:03:04Person in my life that really kind of saw this dream for me saw this future for me, you know, he
01:03:11Really instilled a lot of these beliefs in me, but at the same time, I don't know if he saw how much pressure put on me
01:03:18You realize the pressure on that young girl. That's a critical piece about
01:03:25The pushing versus the
01:03:28Allowing it to unfold with positive encouragement and support remember that we are in the business of entertainment
01:03:41I think that's a very negative thing to say. Are you serious?
01:03:46Okay, well you should have been out there that was that wasn't very kind I should you should apologize
01:03:53Do you want to apologize?
01:03:55Okay. Thank you very much
01:03:56No
01:03:57I remember that even when I go to the press conference after I get to the final that I was so excited and all that
01:04:03Boom, how many games do you think you're gonna win against Effie tomorrow?
01:04:07So you cannot ask me that question why you don't ask me if I'm happy or you know
01:04:12What are you gonna gonna do tomorrow and how you think you're gonna play it but don't say that question, you know
01:04:17So I look at him and I say, okay, let's talk tomorrow
01:04:20What tennis players like many?
01:04:23Performers have to learn to do is to have a game face
01:04:28where they show people what they want them to see and
01:04:31That is also a skill that they need to learn in order to survive out there
01:04:36So next morning I went to play the final and I won the game and I won the match
01:04:40I threw the racket away, you know
01:04:42I was like happy as ever crying after I take the shower and I have a trophy with me
01:04:49I have to go to the purse. I look to the Spanish journalist
01:04:52Yes, and I say well, what do you have to say now?
01:04:55There are people writing all about them good and bad. They all are experiencing
01:05:01This the same life the same experience, you know, all those same things are happening to them
01:05:06I wasn't ready for it and all this other things comes with a job and and that gives you just
01:05:13So much more on your plate that it's it's sometimes overwhelming
01:05:19it's a journey, which I go through and
01:05:23It's completely different than like 10 years ago when I start playing tennis
01:05:27Of course, the problem is that you get linked up with people
01:05:31that want to suck your emotional energy dry and
01:05:35There are takers all over the place. I
01:05:38Play tennis because I love playing tennis not because it was gonna give me a living and I think if I was growing up now
01:05:44I still would want to play because I love hitting that ball not because there is fame and fortune
01:05:49That's the only person that you have any control over is you and once you realize I have no control over this other sea of people
01:05:57And they're constantly gonna be nibbling at me. There's moments where you also have to protect yourself so much negativity
01:06:03It's amazing how it's so positive on the way up and anytime you have bumps in the road. It's amazing how quickly
01:06:10People are willing to push you down to be negative
01:06:13That's when all the drama stops and the difficult things might begin. I'm just gonna do
01:06:20What I want to do. I'm not gonna think about
01:06:23Everybody else and and what the media is gonna say or write because I know that I'm doing things that I like
01:06:29And and I'm not doing anything to hurt anybody and and if there's a camera somewhere then so be it
01:06:34It's I'm not gonna change. No, this is the wall. This is the seawall and you can't come past this
01:06:40This is me if I want to talk in the press conferences about my private life
01:06:44I will talk if I don't feel like it then I won't I realized that my life was no longer my own
01:06:50That everything I did was gonna be documented and was the whole world would know the next day
01:06:56So that sense of privacy left and I had to give up some of that for fame me as a shy young girl
01:07:04I really found it difficult to deal with all the things that came with it, you know
01:07:07All of a sudden all the eyes on me the fame and everything and I sort of wanted to run away from that
01:07:12I wanted to be a kid and have a normal life. Sometimes you can't put as
01:07:17Much as you'd like into relationships with people because you have to think about yourself
01:07:22and
01:07:24friendships, you know marriages
01:07:27Privacy there's a lot of things that get affected by success and by putting all your eggs into one basket and
01:07:35So I feel like I missed out on a lot of that
01:07:38The
01:07:45Road the process is very scary. Do I do the right thing? Is that gonna happen for me?
01:07:51You know, you go along with all your doubts, you know, maybe I'm not that good
01:07:55Maybe I'm I can't do it, but I certainly was scared
01:08:00That I wouldn't make it and had a tremendous amount of fear fear of what people would think
01:08:06You know fear being judged there was times when I had doubts I made it maybe big mistake
01:08:13if you know is
01:08:15It's an amigo Constante
01:08:18He okay necessary
01:08:20Sometimes having that insecurity and that fear is what drives us as well
01:08:24I've been through a lot of stuff in my life
01:08:26but I've never been through this having a baby and dealing with the emotions and the ups and downs and the fears and the
01:08:33and the excitement
01:08:34The players insecure, you know how that can escalate everything. It's almost an inner battle of you know
01:08:41Do I want to be playing another tournament? Do I want any and it kind of comes out physically?
01:08:57We're punishing our bodies and you know
01:09:00It's not normal like this to all your life to put yourself through this you have to walk through pain
01:09:06You have to say the goal is the most important thing
01:09:09I just snapped my knee while playing playing the match and I literally went into surgery two days later
01:09:16I flew back and I had surgery and it was a really big setback for me
01:09:20what I have to walk through to get to that goal is irrelevant and
01:09:24It's the people that can shove away the irrelevant and stay focused on the end point
01:09:29that make it it was such a
01:09:33Emotional and mental fight like it was like I wasn't out there
01:09:36I'd do anything to go back get back as quick as I can
01:09:38I think coming back from surgery people don't realize how tough it is for athletes. I mean not physically but emotionally
01:09:44I need to do this for my life. I need to do this for my tennis for my ambitions
01:09:51I know how expensive this proposition could be I'm willing to do it anyway
01:09:57You don't say the word I can't
01:10:00You say the words I will I will a lot of people don't realize is that when it's the toughest you're so close
01:10:08To reaching something and getting through that and if you get through that all of a sudden you make one huge jump and things are gonna
01:10:15Start going your way again
01:10:18I
01:10:23Thought about stopping tennis when when I lost my mom I was 12. Yeah, I have a really tough moment
01:10:292011 and there was a time that I
01:10:33Needed to find a sense to to what I did and and when she passed away for you, too. It's been like
01:10:38It was very difficult. I was losing. I think every single tournament at the end
01:10:44Lost 11 tournaments in the road in the first round when it was bombing in my country when my parents couldn't
01:10:51Travel there was a time when as well when I wanted to go back and quit the sport. I just
01:10:57Tennis was not important anymore at the time. I just I wanted them to be safe
01:11:02Well, I decide actually to just put the records in the corner and just yeah
01:11:08I think what can I do now because to lose it's not always fun
01:11:13Martina Navratilova
01:11:15She had to decide to defect
01:11:17Knowing that she might never see her parents again. She might never go back to Czechoslovakia again
01:11:23You know knowing that I mean what she put on the line at a young age
01:11:27looking back
01:11:30How did I have the
01:11:31Courage to do that that to me is the biggest example of somebody
01:11:37Saying this is how badly I want this
01:11:39I knew what what I wanted to do was play tennis and I knew I couldn't do that if I if I stayed behind
01:11:45Eventually, they would not let me get out of the country at all. And at that point I
01:11:50Couldn't become the player that I wanted to that. I knew I could become to find the demons is very easy
01:11:58Because they're everywhere
01:12:00Now the problem is how do you overcome the demons a lot of them are your own demons that you make up?
01:12:07If you can go through the storm, you're solid you can go through anything my lowest point was when I was outed in 1981
01:12:15That was my lowest point probably because I had to start over. I had to completely start over financially in 24 hours
01:12:21I lost all my contracts and so I had to start my financial life over
01:12:25So it was very very difficult. So when I came out
01:12:29In 81 as a gay woman
01:12:32So you're so brave you're so brave no, no after
01:12:36The tough part was leaving my family after that. Everything is a piece of cake
01:12:40Mentally for me as always a pretty strong personality. So I like to compete
01:12:45And unfortunately kind of when my stabbing came in that's when it really changed it shifted for me because like oh
01:12:51now a whole new set of challenges came in none of us probably in our daily lives are able to
01:12:59Recover and settle down as fast as these players are at some of the most critical moments in their lives
01:13:05I think that's what we all have in common is that we never give up no matter if we face the wall
01:13:10We find a way to break through that wall
01:13:12I
01:13:28Just wanted to play play every week go keep going I was young I was active and enjoying it
01:13:34That was the key. I was just I was enjoying it. I was having fun. I just start winning, you know tournaments
01:13:40I move on the ranking. I don't know. I was feeling that just everything was clicking
01:13:45That's again where the penny drops all of a sudden you're beating the top players in the world. And now you're thinking, okay
01:13:50I can not only just play on this tour. I think I can really do well and
01:13:56possibly possibly
01:13:58Win a Grand Slam title the origin of course of its success goes back to the Grand Slams these wonderful events these wonderful
01:14:07Cathedrals French Open big deal. I won my first French Open
01:14:10I was only 17 years old winning my first u.s
01:14:13Open because that was the game-changer in my life one blood was always special
01:14:17I know they call Wimbledon the Cathedral of tennis which it is
01:14:22Australia was
01:14:23always my favorite Grand Slam that was always my my
01:14:27Grand Slam where I would like to win a Grand Slam you start to enjoy to play on center court
01:14:33You want to play more in center court?
01:14:34So for to play on center court, you have to be higher ranked so to be higher ranked you have to work hard
01:14:39So it's like a chain, you know
01:14:41like it's one after another like
01:14:43To go up you have to go like with the stairs like step by step step by step to go to the top
01:14:48It was really just one step at a time
01:14:50The good result will follow if you stick to what what you're good at with your full focus
01:14:56I can do it. I can do it and I can reach I can reach the top. Yeah, I can do it
01:15:02I know how good I can be so it's the one that can find the right path to navigate
01:15:09To get to the top
01:15:10That makes them the champion when you're in the top five, you don't pick out big things
01:15:15You pick out little things and somebody told me at the beginning of the tournament if you win this tournament
01:15:21Then you may be number one in the world and it felt so
01:15:25Weird to say that or to think that that I was like don't think about it, you know up until probably those
01:15:32Couple matches I actually didn't even think about how close I was to the top. It never it never really
01:15:39Dawned on me to think any more about it. If you ever become number one in the world at anything you've got my attention
01:15:49It means that you've put in an incredible amount of work. I think every player who reaches number one
01:15:54I don't it sounds like a cliche but in and of itself is inspirational
01:15:59You want to stay number five your whole career
01:16:02Do you want to become number one?
01:16:03because if you want to become number one
01:16:06There are things in your head mentally that you will have to change that you will have to improve under immense
01:16:12Pressures on and off the court that is incredibly inspiring
01:16:29You
01:16:5931st of March August 11 5th of February. It's been tough. It's been long, but I did this is
01:17:29My dream come true. I cannot believe that I'm actually number one in the world because I put my will my mind to it
01:17:35And I did it that was always a dream. Yeah to become number one. It's something that no one can take away from you
01:17:41I knew it was gonna happen. I just didn't know when I was not prepared for this because no one prepared me
01:17:46Oh, it would look no one prepared me to that moment
01:17:48And my mom came over somebody must have told her and said you're now number one in the world
01:17:52But excuse me, what do you say? And that's how I found out I actually realized that
01:17:58Yeah, it happened that's in like few days
01:18:01I will be on the top on the rankings and I saw that you know
01:18:06The rankings that my name was on the top. It's can't be expressed in words
01:18:10It's very surreal coming from where I came from took me a couple of days
01:18:13I think before you know, it really sunk in you're like, okay, the dream has come true very difficult to how you feel
01:18:19I don't think there's an explanation in words
01:18:23That can explain that. I remember I was crying and I was
01:18:27he was
01:18:29Crazy it's hard not to
01:18:32Celebrate and and cry over moments like that
01:18:36I'm gonna stop crying right now Adam say something funny. I don't know. I was speechless. I'm Mary morena
01:18:44Your parents are proud and you know, my grandfather, you know, he was like over like amazing
01:18:49You know, my granddaughter is number one in the world
01:18:52What went through my head was okay the journey behind like
01:18:57When I was a kid in that in a little gym, you would think like your whole life is
01:19:03accumulated to this point and
01:19:06It comes and goes in a few seconds and there's another tournament to be played. It's not a moment. It's a journey
01:19:21You
01:19:43When you are number one
01:19:46You
01:19:47Misunderstand the penalty of being number one. There is a penalty
01:19:53Okay, I want a grandson. I went to number one for whatever happens from now
01:19:57He's good. I want to stay here for as long as possible. I'm not satisfied by just reaching number one
01:20:03I want to stay here for years if I can I think getting there you don't know what you're getting yourself into
01:20:09you become from
01:20:11The hunter being the hunted one and now everybody wants to come and get you you must play the best
01:20:19every single day
01:20:22Yeah, I know you have to figure out how to win still it's a complete
01:20:26It's a different mentality with the same time
01:20:27You never want to lose a match
01:20:28You really only make headlines when you lose not when you win because you're supposed to win because you're number one
01:20:33There is two coins like one. They are the best. Yes
01:20:37I'm the best but the rest of the people they all want to get you
01:20:40You never become complacent
01:20:43Because the whole world wants to beat you not just one person
01:20:48But the whole world you're the scalp you the big prize now
01:20:51I know that the players behind me they have a target on my back
01:20:55So you don't you don't want to let anybody else get their own king of the hill and you're gonna stay down there it took
01:21:01Yeah, actually a few months to get used to it to get used to it to find also the new motivation
01:21:07And that's where the self-motivation and all that
01:21:11again comes in handy staying there takes a special person a special team and an attitude that say baby
01:21:19My team and I work to get here and I ain't giving it up
01:21:24It's not for sale. You have the pressure of always defending you have the pressure of the media
01:21:30You have the pressure of expectations. You have the pressure of your management of your sponsor deals, etc
01:21:36You have much more things to do
01:21:38Of course you have much more media things much more
01:21:43Yes sponsor activities, so it's not just more about hitting forehands and backhands
01:21:49There's much more to the business and everybody wants the fame the money and remember
01:21:54There's only one in the entire world at that moment who can reach that but these number one players
01:22:00They can be down six love three love and they'll come back you can count on it
01:22:06I've seen examples of players that have lost many matches in a row and they've still turned it around to become number one in the
01:22:12World and when you start to play players ten years younger than you in 12 years, they start beating you and you doubt yourself
01:22:20You know, that's adversity and then to come through that and then once again regain your superiority
01:22:27Regain the number one find that find that that like thing that you felt that you lost inside of you
01:22:34You make it happen and that's the most wonderful
01:22:46You can't play professional tennis your whole life I think at a certain point you you recognize
01:22:52All right. This is the time for me to
01:22:55to leave
01:22:57Well
01:22:59It's interesting I had I started to feel like two years earlier than I retired I started to feel a sort of
01:23:06Moments when I didn't want to be on the court. I was just beat up physically and mentally I would cry after
01:23:14After my matches, I wasn't happy anymore being a tennis player. I was getting older. I didn't want to practice
01:23:20I I had matches where I'd play one great match and then the next morning
01:23:26I didn't want to get out of bed and play the next one, you know mentally I was feeling burned out
01:23:29I wasn't winning as much and it was hard to keep getting motivated when the results weren't there. I've done it
01:23:34I've number one. I'm number one in doubles Grand Slam champion doubles Grand Slam and singles
01:23:41Okay, what what now?
01:23:44And I always have a philosophy in my mind that I rather prefer retiring when I was on the top
01:23:48I'd rather to go down
01:23:50It's very difficult if there's a career-ending injury or some other kind of traumatic event that
01:23:56prematurely truncates their career and by
01:24:00Basically 21 I was out of the game because of injuries. I'm 25
01:24:06And I cannot bend forward
01:24:10My legs get numb then it came back and it was a shoulder then it was a foot then it was it was just
01:24:15Non-stop this circle and then I went to the doctor in Austria. He's like turn this side
01:24:21Does it hurt them like yeah, turn that side. Does it hurt? Yeah, this was the circle that I just
01:24:26couldn't seem to be
01:24:28Healthy enough for any length of time the day when I realized that it's it
01:24:32yes, the day when I closed the door by the doctor and
01:24:36Said like I cannot bend anymore
01:24:38The clear biggest disappointment for me is that I didn't get to play as long as I wanted to it's not even a decision
01:24:45It's a recognition an athlete what they want to do in retirement is they want to fulfill all their expectations all the potential
01:24:53Play as long as they want whether that's 24 years old
01:24:5731 years old whatever that is and be able to walk away from the game and said I got everything out of it
01:25:02Sometimes you see them come back because they realize wait a minute. I still have more to say we go to the States and
01:25:09crazy, I win the US Open and
01:25:12Still felt like there was more game in me. So I started playing doubles again
01:25:16But Martina played till she won a mixed doubles title at the US Open when she was 50
01:25:21It was at that point. I knew I didn't have anything to prove
01:25:23It's a difficult time to go back home and I went back home and then I started to come back to tennis and I understood
01:25:30Tennis wasn't for me anymore. One of the things that I didn't believe
01:25:35When I was younger was that I could do anything but play tennis
01:25:42You ask these questions to yourself, how am I gonna exist without tennis and
01:25:51We don't want we're not ready for them to leave they might be ready to move on
01:25:55We're not always ready to move on without them looking back now. I would have kept it private
01:26:00I wouldn't have said everybody. This is my last year. It just underscores what impact they've had on our lives
01:26:06It was like the longest goodbye, you know, so looking back I would keep my mouth shut and then retire and say, okay
01:26:13After the last tournament, I'm done
01:26:16I'd achieved my dreams and and that's all that mattered to me. I'm very happy that I've been able to live my dream
01:26:24I'm happy that
01:26:26I've hopefully been able to represent myself in a way. That is a
01:26:30building and
01:26:31Building and
01:26:33Unembarrassing all those things and that I don't really need more than that. I have emotions. Sometimes they're they're actually happy tears
01:26:40the tears of emotion because
01:26:42Something has come to a to an end. I was crying because I cried I did, you know, say goodbye to everyone tennis life
01:26:50Can be an amazing experiences, but there's also life after tennis who I am. What do I want to do now?
01:26:57Maybe I want to go skiing
01:26:58Maybe I want to open myself having some fun in life a little bit, you know
01:27:02Go to parties go out like every teenager would do like but I didn't have time to do it when I was a teenager
01:27:08I could go to a movie at 9 o'clock at night. I could have a glass of wine
01:27:12I mean all these little things that that don't seem little were huge for me. I can do whatever I want
01:27:19I cannot believe it
01:27:21Okay, I
01:27:22Can go fishing a little bit more now
01:27:25Being a champion is winning big tournaments and
01:27:29It's important but build yourself
01:27:31I think it's something very very important a lot of them that want to be a mother someday and
01:27:37Have a balanced life then I became a mother and and at that time really
01:27:42Life has changed and and I feel yeah happier than ever family life, which was
01:27:48Which was even more meaningful for me if there's anything that I'm most proud of it's it's having that
01:27:54Beautiful family and the way my three boys have turned out
01:27:58Very happy to be a mother and take the whole time, you know for them and spend time
01:28:02You know with them because I didn't have much childhood, you know when I was playing
01:28:06Preparing what do I want to do next is also important
01:28:10See, I already knew what I was gonna do when I retired a lot of players are always like they don't know what they're gonna
01:28:14Do they and they actually the rest of life sometimes they just get lost and that's where depression and all that may come in
01:28:21I wasn't lost that way ever
01:28:23Ending an athletic career is a difficult journey for most people. It's a big adjustment
01:28:31I was involved in many things besides playing professional tennis. I love being a tennis commentator
01:28:37I like sharing the knowledge that I have I love
01:28:41Dissecting a match love it when people say I love listening to you. I'm great. I'll learn something to them great
01:28:50Your relationship with tennis just changes
01:28:54doesn't end
01:29:08So I really believe they become champions when they use their gifts to make the world a better place the real people
01:29:15Will give back
01:29:17And give opportunities to children
01:29:20Because they were given but I also like to help change the world to be a better place
01:29:24Being a tennis player gave me that platform. I didn't like to be famous
01:29:29But for those things I love it
01:29:31There are some athletes that don't do a lot of talking about their charitable work, but they do it a big
01:29:38Responsibility they have and the ones that embrace that I think that's when they really are the heroes because an obligation a desire and an easy
01:29:45desire to give
01:29:47to give back
01:29:49giving back giving back what
01:29:52my journey was my
01:29:55experience to also two kids to
01:29:57Two women's two young tennis players. I think the tennis players have done a wonderful job in giving back and that's just a
01:30:05Slapdunk, it's easy to me. It's just easy peasy. I
01:30:09I went to introduce, you know more the tennis, you know
01:30:12The values for the sport the values in life and I think the sports help you in a lot of ways
01:30:17to give something to the kids and and also I tell them no matter what happens keep dreaming and
01:30:25Try to be a better person. I said, okay, that's great. Okay, but now it's not about me. I always
01:30:31Felt that I wanted to help others in whatever way I can I love team tennis because it's equality on the court
01:30:39That's the way I want the world to look they feel tennis has given me so much and this is my way also to it
01:30:45To return and I feel I also have passion for it. So in the future
01:30:49I would love to do more even help five people ten people. It's still ten lives that are better because of
01:30:57The little help that we could give I would spend the rest of my life fighting for equal rights and opportunities
01:31:03for men and women boys and girls
01:31:05Everybody for everyone at the moment. It's given me the opportunity to help other indigenous kids all around Australia
01:31:12I always wanted to
01:31:13Try and help and inspire women to believe in their dreams and to try and do what they can do and believe that they belong
01:31:20For me that's empowerment. I started my own pro celebrity tennis tournament and that to this day is raised
01:31:26over 20 million dollars for
01:31:28You know the prevention of drug abuse and drug addiction young children
01:31:33Raising money for kids that didn't have enough money for dental for health care for psychiatric care
01:31:39family
01:31:41Problems as well when you know, I see something that's not right, then I definitely want to stand up right away for it
01:31:47So I think it's just that natural instinct and what I was taught
01:31:51I would like to see the first peoples of this country be recognized in the Constitution. I
01:31:58Think it's time
01:32:04To be a champion in tennis you have to want to have a singular pursuit in a very lonely sport
01:32:12and you have to be willing to
01:32:15Understand the journey, it's a very very long journey
01:32:19It's a complicated journey and one that deserves incredible admiration
01:32:24It's tough. It's gonna be beautiful. He's gonna be held. He's gonna be emotional. He's gonna be hard work
01:32:31It's the physical dimension. It's the mental dimension
01:32:35It's the emotional dimension good structure good support good network and a lot of passion
01:32:42It's a continued effort of perseverance through all the ups and all the downs because everyone has them I
01:32:50Don't know. I never seen this
01:32:52It's not a trajectory like this. That's not life doesn't work like that. And so it comes with a lot of sacrifice
01:32:59but at the same time there are a lot of rewards for those that
01:33:03That achieve the goals along their journey. It allows you to see life
01:33:08For what it is it allows you to go inward
01:33:12To know who you are and you know, I think that the most important thing is your core
01:33:18Yeah, it's a difficult journey. But if you say to them
01:33:21Well, would you if you had to do it over would you make the same journey?
01:33:25I wonder if any would say no, but there's one common goal. I
01:33:31Will do whatever it takes to be a champion
01:33:39You
01:33:49My journey was the princess magazine story I
01:33:56Feel very blessed that I found something that I love at such a young age
01:34:02it's been a difficult journey, but
01:34:05The most fantastic I could dream of
01:34:09It's something that you've been doing the whole life
01:34:12It's been the greatest journey. It really been through through it all
01:34:19Very interesting and long I
01:34:24Think that if I will have to you know, get back I will do the same as I did, you know my my whole career
01:34:31I'm a big believer in staying in the present moment and
01:34:36The present moment is all you have
01:34:39Essentially, I love what I've done and very few people get to do that and I you know
01:34:44Very humbled by it. Okay. I've done everything that I wanted in my life. I didn't really think about past or future
01:34:49I just took it as it came
01:34:52I've become a better human being, you know through tennis. Actually, I'm not lying. I have I think you learned so much
01:34:59If you allow it to and you can that can spread through your whole life everybody thinks that it's so easy
01:35:04It just goes up lots of twists and turns a lot of going uphill a lot of going downhill
01:35:09You've got to love it what you do. You can't do tennis for any other reason
01:35:14Good times there was also some bad times
01:35:18I've built beautiful
01:35:20Intense friendships through it all. I didn't have a lot of self-esteem. I think growing up and that's the biggest thing
01:35:28The one thing that chance to give me
01:35:31It was a long journey to find myself also to find
01:35:36How I am what I like and also to change myself as a person as a tennis player
01:35:42And I think you always learn that you can you can achieve and do and push yourself even farther than what you ever thought you could
01:35:49Very proud with what I've done, you know
01:35:52As a as a tennis player, but also as a person I know myself and I know
01:35:58What I have inside and it's just amazing
01:36:01But at the end i'd say I climbed that mountain, you know, I got to the top. So
01:36:05But it was a very interesting journey
01:36:08So every morning I have a gratitude list that I kind of my blessings
01:36:12And susan williams is definitely in that blessing list. I always say thank you susan for asking me to play tennis
01:36:18Because it changed my life forever
01:36:21And it has it's given me a journey that I never could have dreamed of
01:36:27Every time a great champion or champions
01:36:30Decide to step down
01:36:32New champions emerge and that is what is really exciting. And that's what the journey is about who will be
01:36:40our next athena
01:36:43She was dreaming out loud
01:36:47How to conquer the mountain mommy just gave her a smile
01:36:55And she was up in the clouds
01:37:00No one there but silence honey, wake up and finish your lunch
01:37:25Yeah, she knew she was right
01:37:29And she carried on yearning for the wonderful life she will have
01:37:37And she was facing the sun
01:37:42And her wings were swinging fire up by the beat of the drum
01:37:49Um
01:37:58With a spark in her heart
01:38:13Walk the path, this is your calling
01:38:19Journey of life to the love and the loneliness
01:38:26Walk the path, this is your calling
01:38:45She was willing to fight
01:38:49In the face of adversity
01:38:52There is only one way
01:38:55to survive
01:38:57And she was free from the chains
01:39:02From the narrow thinking as a woman she did it her way
01:39:11And every stroke keeps her spirit alive
01:39:19With a spark in her heart
01:39:37Welcome to the journey of life to the good and the bad times
01:39:48Calling
01:39:59Don't back down
01:40:12Don't give up this
01:40:19Me
01:40:28Looking back at those days when she was dreaming
01:40:35Facing all her fears to change the world
01:40:41Going through that journey had a meaning
01:40:45And
01:40:47In every step of the way
01:40:50You will find yourself
01:40:53In every step of the way
01:40:57You will find your true
01:41:15Journey
01:41:39Welcome to the journey
01:41:45You try to find yourself
01:42:15You
01:42:17Try to find yourself this is your calling
01:42:27So i've decided after studying this so intensively that
01:42:33Before I reach the age of 75 i'm going to be number one
01:42:39In something