Tennys heartbreaking loss

Be really funny if clip started with you watching match on tv.. I SHOULD HAVE GONE CROSSCOURT!!!!

 

This match haunted me for a while.. Heck, my own priest went over the whole thing during our wedding vows!!

(Tell your Roger story.. I think about you a lot)

The casino story after the match

Do I think about it a lot? Sure.. I was part of an iconic match in our sport and a special match for Federer who is arguably the most impactful player in tennis history

Heartbreak is part of life

Either losing something or someone important to you

But it hits a little different as a tennis player 

First of all, it happens a lot!!

The history of our sport is like one big heartbreaking loss

You can't control the outcome.. You just can't... You can prepare, you can fight, you can leave it all out there, play the match of your life on tennis biggest stage like I did, and have it not be good enough.. Thats Crazy!!! But that's our sport

Takeaway.. This is going to happen to you.. And its going to hurt.. You can't control that.. 

What you can control is how you react to it .. 

If you can get that close once, twice .. HECK, SEVEN TIMES!!!!  That means your doing a lot of things really well.. Don't give up.. You'll be defined not by the match but by how you respond to the match

(What did you do? What would you have done differently?)

 Its impossible to not think of what could have been in such situations

Semis of a major