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
Grass? Give me a bucket of balls and a sand wedge. Sure I like grass.
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.
I don't know what to say, ... It has been a fantastic run. I enjoyed playing here.
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.
What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.