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First game, final set. Every time I practice, I'll be practicing shots that hopefully I'll use against her. I've done what I've always wanted to do. I'm number one tennis player in the world. That was the first real rivalry that sparked that type of interest and gave legitimacy to the women's game. That's it. Game, set, match. In the beginning, it was fine for me to be friends with her because I was better than her. That hurt. I knew that I needed to be more of a killer instinct. It was the lowest of lows in our relationship. Chris was the enemy, and she's the one I had to beat to get to number one.
They do some damage to each other emotionally. If you wanna be great at something, you give up things. Sometimes it takes terrible things to happen for you to realize how you really feel about things. The goal is to get free of cancer. The second time really hit home how precious every moment is, how precious life is. You don't ever know how much it's gonna hit you one way or the other. She's still scared. Some of the strength of my tennis comes into play with my cancer. They were battling a war forever on the tennis court. And now, in life, they're trying to save each other.
This is about life or death now. There's no competition of whose cancer was worse. We're in the same boat.
