"(About Lea Pericoli) Once, in Paris, while I was watching her from the stands near the court, I felt like saying to her, “Come on Lea, enough with these lobs, go to the net for once.” She replied doubtfully, “I'll try, but it would be the first time.” She went for it, slipped, fell, got her foot tangled in the net, started laughing, and of course insulted me, as only she knew how to do. The whole thing, amid laughter, went on for days."