Is all that possible? And you have 15 minutes to do it.

Let's do it.

Yeah, exactly.

Right.

Well, I think I'm going to take one of the first things you said and say, rule number one, keep showing up.

You have to keep showing up, not only on the court and playing tournaments, but You know, in the gym, in your physical therapy, in your daily routine, you have to keep showing up.

And so I tend to say motivation is cheap.

Yeah.

What really does competing at a high level in senior tennis mean to you? Wow.

Again, another big question, Mike.

I have a lot of time to think these up.

Yeah.

How big can I make this question? So I can sit back and relax.

At every level, at the highest level, there's... there's different facets of everything, right? One, coaching.

So do you have somebody who is guiding you along this path? I think that's an imperative.

Okay.

belt so um so are you saying it's hopeless for people like me because we'll never get those many reps

well you'll never get that many for sure but it's not hopeless I think the biggest thing is, as you said, there are mechanics that have to be accomplished.

And again, I'm going to circle back to the very first few times we got together and assessing and talking.

And then you took some video of a set you played and you sent that to me.

And then we sat down with the laptop on the court and we watched, I think, a game and a half.

And I said, okay, this is where we have to start because unless you can accomplish this one detail, very difficult to then get to more, let's say, detailed technique.

And that was what? A ready position, preparation, setting that framework to actually execute a stroke.

There