82: LIFE LONG FRIENDS

One of the nicest things about being on the tennis tour (as a player and as a parent) is that you get to meet a whole host of lovely people, from different countries and different cultures, and all with some kind of interest in tennis. These may be people like Denise and Mike in Altenkirchen,

81. SOLE TO SOLE

The tennis tour is played on a variety of different surfaces – red clay (the ‘dirt”) in Europe and South America; grey/blue clay in the US; hard/acrylic (worldwide); grass (predominantly, although not exclusively, in the UK); and carpet (with and without sand, indoor and outdoor – various places around the world, including Germany, Japan, Italy