“I would like people to know that my serve is not only that good because of my height. “It was not easy: I was looking around at all these huge courts I never had a chance to play on before,” Karlovic said. “I was just thinking to myself, this is what you have to do if you want to become a good player,” he said of post-match news conferences. “You’re going to have to do it.”Nearly 16 years later, the stammer is much less pronounced, and Karlovic has become not only an excellent player but an enduring one. He played in a series of ATP Challenger events in the final months of 2018, winning one in Calgary.

Source: New York Times March 13, 2019 00:00 UTC