I don’t think there is a limit to the number of Jags I want to own, just got to be careful. I don’t want to spend it all on cars.”One reason Gambill can afford the indulgence is that he still lives with his parents on a 10-acre spread in Colbert, where he stores the cars. That kind of carried through, plus I always loved the look of Jags. Cats are my favourite animal anyway, and they look like cats, ready to pounce.”Defeat by Richard Krajicek here saw him heading for the showrooms to plunge on a new XJR Sedan “The fastest, love it,” he said. “It’s a pretty fun hobby and I’m really lucky to be able to exercise it. I’ll be drooling.”Gambill’s love affair with Jaguars began as a child “Riding in my mom’s XJ6 I used to feel comfortable and safe.

It would be “awesome”, he says, to be on the team, but almost as awesome would be the chance to visit Jaguar’s production line and museum near Coventry “I wouldn’t miss that for the world,” he said “They have lots of one-of-a-kind cars in that museum. At 21, Gambill has rocketed from obscurity a year ago to 31 in the rankings. As America’s fourth-ranked player, he must logically be included when the US team to face Britain at Birmingham next month is announced, since Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi have confirmed their lack of interest.
Selection would be wonderful news for the six-footer with the blond hair and bright blue eyes more normally associated in these parts with people who ride surfboards. TENNIS PLAYERS tend to react to defeat by trashing the locker- room, destroying their rackets or weeping quietly.

When Jan-Michael Gambill lost here on Wednesday he went out and bought a car A Jaguar His fifth. But so did Alex Corretja, Patrick Rafter and Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Moya, however, surged through the field without dropping a set until the one he lost to Kuerten There was a little good news, too, for Henman. He will move up to sixth when the rankings are announced tomorrow, overtaking Marcelo Rios, who lost the title he won here a year ago.. Moya becomes the 15th player to reach the top since the inception of the ATP ranking system in 1973 and the first Spaniard to do so.At the start of this tournament four players were in line to take Sampras’s place if he failed, which he duly did.