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
I don't know what to say, ... It has been a fantastic run. I enjoyed playing here.
Ivan Lendl is walking to the car. Ivan Lendl is opening the door. Ivan Lendl is sitting down and turning the key to the ignition.
I played for the first time in nine years about three weeks ago, ... It was interesting.
Grass? Give me a bucket of balls and a sand wedge. Sure I like grass.
It was good, ... I played well, pretty consistent.
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.
Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.
You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.
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.
I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.
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.