grandmother, my grandmother, and pancho segura. my mom would teach tennis to supplement the income. i wanted to be around it. i loved being around my mother and grandmother. i took to it. with the time spent with them and also with tennis, it was a perfect match. tavis: does that make you a mama's boy? >> it was ok for wayne gretzky's gadd to give him a hockey stick or joe montana cost debt to give, football or larry bird's dad to give him a basketball but it was not ok for gloria connors to give hiher son a tennis rack. it was the 1950's. women had not started coming to the forefront yet. my mom took a chance. -- she was giving a game to get off the streets and have something to work at. maybe get an education out of it. nobody knew where that was going especially when you are three or four or five or six years old. i happened to take to it. i loved it and i brother, john, who is 17 months older. he was involved in it at the same time and he was older so he was always first. he got along with it. as we got older he broke from that and wide to go and run and be with his buddies and