Chapter 25
Mitch was going nuts. It was hard enough riding the rollercoaster that was Dimi’s progress through the Open. (He certainly didn’t make it easy on his fans.) But now that he won, it was game on for Mitch’s own team. He couldn’t wait to squirrel Dimi away, but he knew he had to be patient. His role now was to stand there with his “cameraman” like the “documentary filmmaker” he was and shoot footage as Dimi spoke. He thanked Marcel, his other opponents, the US Open, and New York. He acknowledged and embraced his hero, Alí Iskandar, the last man to achieve the Grand Slam. Then he said:
“I had been thinking that I wanted to quote the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin should this moment come, but I kept coming back to the words of the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’: I am
