The US Open at Flushing Meadows gave me the chance to have a true New York City experience filled with stars and one of the NYC’s most historic sporting events… Where else can you go in the Big Apple where backhands, smashes and faults aren’t followed by flashing lights and police sirens?

While I admit that my passion for US Open tennis far outweighs my actual skill level on the courts, I couldn’t help but notice while I was there last week the number of errors and mistakes made by some of the greatest tennis players on the planet.

It’s Personal…

The Great Ones hate to lose more than they love to win

Serena Williams was a perfectionist long before she was a serious competitor on the tennis court.

“When I was 5 years old and in kindergarten, we had a project due and I was up late working on it, so late that my mom had to force me to go to bed,” she told me in an interview for SUCCESS magazine. “But I kept getting back up because I wanted to re-do the project until it was 100 percent perfect. Eventually, I fell asleep and didn’t get it done because I wanted it to be perfect more than I wanted to just get it done.”