A tanned Ivan Lendl, wearing a huge smile and a patterned blue polo shirt, strides past a snoozing gentleman in a leather armchair and into the members lounge at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.

I USED to hate Ivan Lendl. Everyone did ... Then there were those weird diamond shirts and the stupid legionnaires cap Lendl would wear at the Australian Open. Even in the atrocious 1980s Lendl ...