by Heather Hughes on August 25, 2015
I’ve been thinking about this: What’s next? I do not know, but I am optimistic. I expect it’s going to take some risk to win again. Heck, it’s gonna take some risk to lose again. Taking risk takes two things: fearlessness and focus. Fearlessness. What is it? I’ll tell you what it’s not. It’s not […]
by Heather Hughes on August 29, 2012
Roger Federer is one champion to emulate. He shrugs off losing and relishes winning. He never stops competing to win, no matter how many times he has won. That may sound strange, but many a former player has commented on Federer’s hunger to win despite accomplishing more on the court than perhaps any other male […]
by Heather Hughes on July 6, 2012
There’s so much time left. That’s a paraphrase of what Chris Evert said when Kerber was down 3-5 in the third set to Lisiki, and Lisiki was serving to win the Wimbledon quarterfinals. (Kerber won by the way, and it wasn’t pretty.) Evert is a champion who sees space between spaces, each stroke within each […]