Tina: I'm going to call you a Yugoslavian teenage tennis sensation.

Goran: Oh, Jesus.

Tina: Is that okay?

Goran: It's perfect.

Tina: Good. How tall are you?

Goran: 6'4"? 6'5"?

Tina: And the titles you hold?

Goran: I have only one. This year - Stuttgart.

Tina: I was going to ask you if you shave yet, but you shaved before dinner. Now, you were born in '72...

Goran: '71.

Tina: The tournament book says '72. Are you sure?

Goran: Yes, I'm sure!

Tina: OK, they made a mistake. So you are actually 18.

Goran: I'll be 19 next month.

Tina: Yeah, September -

Goran: September 13th.

Tina: -shhh! I would have remembered.

Goran: You cannot remember it!

Tina: Yes, I would have. September 13th.

Goran: Ok. You are very good student.

Tina: I also just read you are one of the top earners on the tour.

Goran: Yeah, I know.

Tina: Well, I was wondering if you ever try to calculate it in dinars - I mean, being from country where the currency sometimes changes hourly, the concept of money must be very confusing to you.

Goran: No, I don't count the money. I don't care, you know?

Tina: Where does it all go?

Goran: It goes into my account, but it's not important to count how much I earn. It's not the point. I just need to play good. If I play good, the money's coming. But you know, it's nice to read that you have 1 million, six hundred thousand US [dollars]. It's a nice feeling.

Tina: Yeah, but haven't you spent some?

Goran: Well, I bought a car.

Tina: What make, what color?

Goran: Mercedes, blue-black. It's a very sporty car. It's going 240 kilometers per hour.

Tina: It's in Split?

Goran: No, it's in Monte Carlo, because I live there now.

Tina: Wow, already? 18, and you already have your Monte Carlo residence.

Goran: Yup.

Tina: Boris Becker "lives" there, too. Do you and Boris ever hang out?

Goran: Me and Boris - what kind of question is this?

Tina: Well, I wanted to ask how you get along off the court, because you and he already have a rivalry that's one of the most interesting in the sport. The impression one gets watching your matches is that Boris has a lot of respect for you, and that he genuinely likes you. Maybe he sees you as a younger version of himself.

Goran: Yeah. He was afraid of me, maybe. I beat him first in an exhibition, then I beat him in Paris, and I had a chance in the semi-finals of Wimbledon. If I beat him there, maybe he stop to play tennis! He was afraid of me, but maybe he's not anymore. Maybe he likes me more now.

Tina: Because he managed to beat you at Wimbledon, even though he was down a set and a break? That was a fun match to watch. Did you have fun playing it?

Goran: Yeah, I had a lot of fun. That's why I lost.

Tina: You were on the ground, you were biting your racket...

Goran: I was doing a striptease...

Tina: So someone already asked your story at dinner: you started playing when you were 7, you went to a tennis school, you started playing on the junior tour when you were 14.

Goran: Yeah, I was playing a lot of tournaments in Europe.

Tina: So did your family travel with you?

Goran: No. The coach always - there were a lot of players and he was traveling with us. And then I started to play the junior Grand Slams. I was number two junior.

Tina: Behind Nicolas Perreira.

Goran: Very good.

Tina: Do you like to travel so much? Honestly?

Goran: Yeah. What else to do?

Tina: Well, you're young, and it seems like you see the hotel rooms, you go play your matches, you see all the same people all the time.

Goran: Same people, same faces. In Europe I like it more, not so much in America.