I like the idea of Hawkeye because it really bothers me to see major championships lost on bad calls at crucial times.

I'm disappointed with our players' council. They all should resign, because they've made changes without asking what the rest of the tennis world thinks. They've made a scoring system that doesn't exist. It's not an approved system by the International Tennis Federation. Perhaps with that in mind, I've timed my (retirement) decision pretty well.

It's a great opportunity for us to make history and we're very much aware of that.

But we understood the rationale and believed our replacements could do the job. If I hadn't thought so, I would have cried out loud.

Naturally, Wayne and I were miffed. We'd been setting ourselves for this match for weeks,

Seventy-eight candles is a heck of a lot of candles to blow out, but luckily I had a great partner to help me out.