But at the moment he is still giving me the heart to play, to love the competition and to be able to work and train hard. The Chinese American, a superstar across Asia when he was regularly competing for the game's big prizes, acknowledged that the level of competition in men's tennis made it much harder to get to and stay at the top. Obviously the level of tennis is a lot higher now. When I first came on tour you were maybe able to get by the first couple of matches, but now there are no easy matches. But he rejects suggestions that his relatively small size represents an insurmountable handicap against the new generation of power hitters.
Tennis is still a very strategic game.
Size will maybe help in certain aspects. But me being small, I would never say that any player has an advantage over me because they're taller. They day I come to say that will be the day I retire.