Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendlis a former world no.1 professional tennis player and is currently coaching Andy Murray, alongside Jamie Delgado. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He has been described as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Lendl's game relied particularly on strength and heavy topspin from the baseline and helped usher in...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth7 March 1960
CityOstrava, Czech Republic
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I played for the first time in nine years about three weeks ago, ... It was interesting.
I don't know what to say, ... It has been a fantastic run. I enjoyed playing here.
Grass? Give me a bucket of balls and a sand wedge. Sure I like grass.
Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.
I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.
Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.
It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.
It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.
Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.