– “I don’t know if I would still be here then”
The carefree beach boy became a driven man, increasingly plagued by anxiety attacks. A new Netflix documentary traces the tragic story of Mardy Fish.
Simon Graf
Posted today at 11:30 am
On the drive to Flushing Meadows in the car, Stacey Fish takes her husband Mardy’s hand and says, “You don’t have to play.” She feels how he struggles with himself, how he tries to stop the tidal wave of destructive thoughts in his head. “I’m sorry, what? I don’t have to play? ”Asks Fish blankly. “For Matches like this I’ve trained all my life. “
Sein Round of 16 at the US Open 2012 against Roger Federer is pending, everyone is waiting for the big duel. Fish’s parents too are on site. «We come, but it are problems“Stacey texts them. Mother Sally listens to Arthur in the corridors Ashe Stadium, as former tennis ace Justin Gimelstob, now a TV expert at CBS, says to someone: “If Mardy Fish isn’t playing, CBS will kill someone.”