The reason I would use those shoes, is because all of time the beginning of time and existence. Is me at San Leandro High playing with a professional racquet for the first time.
Luis Possibly Gonzales was teaching me how to play tennis. Because I was playing really really badly. It could have been the oversized Wilson racquet that no one else was able to play with or use either.
But I just did the most straight away back hand with placement possible. And then I did it again once or twice. And then that was the end of tennis forever. I forget if the coach was a black person at the time or it was still Mr. Dell, Pablo Torre?
I was practicing over the summer trying to work on my serve and random Chinese guys kept bothering me asking me if there was a membership or something. The next year the coach was some black guy and then I just quit the team.
The Filipino guy wasn’t that great of a coach and neither was the black guy. But I just didn’t feel like playing and moving up 10 spots for Laurence Wong which didn’t seem like that great of a tennis player and became number one.