00:00October 1992, Clark had mentioned to us that he was responsible for this ball kit thing
00:09that was a novelty to us, and we were told that we would have the opportunity to get involved.
00:16Clark put us through the first year of training. There was a lot of us.
00:20A lot of us unfortunately got rejected, a lot of us made it through, and we learned a lot.
00:30Mr McLaughlin, the Executive Vice Chairman of Dubai Duty Free, had a wonderful idea to organise a tennis tournament in Dubai.
00:44He came to me and he said, I'm going to be organising this event, would you kindly organise the ball kits for me?
00:51Is that something that you can do?
00:54And I agreed. I was delighted that he asked me, and we trained I think 75 ball kits the first year,
01:02because there was only a men's tournament then, there was only ATP.
01:05The ladies started seven years later as you know.
01:08And here we all are, enjoying Mr Federer and Djokovic and Monfils and everyone this year.
01:15My favourite moment was when I was a ball kit for the finals of the 2019 Dubai Tennis Championships,
01:25and it was Roger against Tsitsipas, and it was really nice.
01:28Roger almost gave me his racket, but due to lack of time I could not get it.
01:35But when I went to the O2 this year, me and Stephanie were chosen to participate in the O2,
01:42he gave me his headband, which was really good.
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