When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
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When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 December 2020 source ↗
The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.
Watching the 2015 movie Aloha.
When I heard John Noakes had died.
Recently watching (or trying to watch) 12 Years A Slave.
Firm, fair, fun.
Billie Jean King. She’s the reason tennis is such an equal sport in terms of opportunity for women.
Getting my teeth done. I had veneers and it took 18 months.
When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
That Scottish tennis has failed to capitalise on the successes of Jamie and Andy.
On a flight, last February, from Atlanta to Rio. We went through a storm and I was convinced that the plane was going down. The overhead cabins were opening, everything was falling out, people were screaming and I was hanging on to my seat.
Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt, Stuart Broad, Louis Smith, Simone Biles, Serena Williams
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