Q: Of all the years here, the wins, the setbacks, could you summarise it all, what it means to you?
A: I have been here a long, long time and obviously the place was very special to me. It made me who I am today and gave me all the possibilites, all the freedom to do what I want to with my life. I'm very thankful I was able to come here 16 years ago and play in the qualifying at Roehampton, playing my way through the main draw in 1984 already, and obviously winning a number of times, and the whole combination of it was just very, very good for me.

Q: Are you happy with the state of the men's game now or do you have concerns about the future, as you leave it?
A: I'm not worried so much about personalities because I think we have many of them. It's just unfortunate most of the top playershave to play almost every week to keep their rankings up and collect points they need. Hopefully, it will change in the future and we will have less of so-called important tournaments and the top players will play each other more often and then we will see good matches.

Q: If you were coming along today as a 17-year-old, what would you have to do differently than what you did to be successful at this level. How has the game changed in this regard?
A: Now, we have more guys with the power game. I was more or less the first one with a heavy power game to breakthrough. The top players in the '80s were very good so were the players in the '90s. It was a different era, different racquets, balls, so you just can't compare. But I think even today it would be possible if somebody young comes up. The guy I played in the third round, Hewitt has made big strides in the circuit, so if you are a good player, regardless of age, there is always a good possibility you are going to make it.

Q: Would youhave changed anything about the last 15 years?
A: What really bugs me all along is losing four finals. That's about four too many. If you are in the final seven times and wins just thrice, that's not a good percentage.

Results

Men's singles (4th round): 1-Pete Sampras (US) bt Daniel Nestor (Canada) 6-3 6-4 6-2; 2-Pat Rafter (Aus) bt Boris Becker (Germ) 6-3 6-2 6-3; 6-Tim Henman (GBr) bt Jim Courier (US) 4-6 7-5 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 9-7; 7-Mark Philippoussis bt 9-Greg Rusedski (GBr) 2-6 7-6 (7/4) 6-3 6-1; 8-Todd Martin (US) bt 10-Goran Ivanisevic (Croatia) 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 6-4; Cedric Pioline (France) bt 13-Karol Kucera (Slovakia) 6-4 5-7 7-6 (7/5) 4-6 6-3.

Women's singles (4th round): 2-Steffi Graf (Germ) bt Kim Clijsters (Belg) 6-2 6-2; 6-Venus Williams (US) bt 17-Anna Kournikova (Russia) 3-6 6-3 6-2; 8-Nathalie Tauziat (France) bt 15-Dominique Van Roost (Belg) 6-3 3-6 6-3; Alexandra Stevenson (US) bt Lisa Raymond (US) 2-6 7-6 (10-8) 6-1; Mirjana Lucic (Croat) bt Tamarine Tanasugarn(Thai) 7-5 6-3.