I was mostly joking in the last installation of Red Clay, as I considered how to re- up the interest in the sport of tennis in our country. Joking because tennis is cyclical, and there's not a lot anyone can do to influence its cycles. Like when I was growing up, after McEnroe and before Agassi, in the Arias/Krickstein years, people were saying that American tennis was dead for good, that we didn't have a youth development model that worked, that the best athletes were playing other sports. And then all of a sudden we get Agassi, Chang, Courier, Sampras, Sampras, Sampras...