Oh … I’ve bought to cease speaking about it as a result of I get a bit emotional about it.
As a result of I hated myself a lot rising up. I simply didn’t wish to be right here anymore, to be sincere. I hated my incapacity and you already know due to my household and other people with incapacity that got here earlier than me, breaking glass ceilings so I may be who I’m, athletes like Kurt Fearnley, Louise Sauvage, advocates like Stella Younger, in a harder time they modified all the things.
And I noticed that and I’m so pleased with my incapacity. I find it irresistible a lot and to be named Australian of the Yr and to get it for not simply being good at tennis, however for the work off the court docket.
My objective 10 years in the past, yesterday, as we speak and as Australian of the Yr has by no means modified.
It’s to not win tennis tournaments, it’s to vary perceptions to [allow] individuals with incapacity to dwell the lives they need to dwell. To be provided that honour, to carry that platform, to have the ability to try this, it’s large. And I’m simply so grateful and grateful and it’s unbelievable. I don’t know what to say.
