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I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.
He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.
I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
We didn't have football boots, and we used a broken tennis ball instead of a football. I didn't use a proper ball until I was 11.
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.
Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don't dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.
It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.
I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.
I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
It's nice I inspire the kids. tThat's the most important thing, and more people are now playing tennis, even for fun. That's great.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
As a tennis player, you have a record, and that is what counts. I feel like I enjoyed myself, and I'm proud of what I accomplished.
Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.
Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.
Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?
If you start to hesitate with your game, if you start to not go completely with your plan, then it's tough to play your best tennis.
It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.
I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.
I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.
Maybe sometimes I don't look like that I'm really enjoying being on the court and playing tennis, but inside, I'm really enjoying it.
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.
In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.
I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.
I don't know much about Mauresmo apart from the fact she played great tennis. Is she a good technician? I don't know those parameters.
I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court.