Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenportis an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked World No. 1 on eight different occasions, for a total of 98 weeks. She is one of five women who have been the year-end World No. 1 at least four timessince 1975; the others are Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams. She has achieved the No. 1 ranking in doubles as well...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth8 June 1976
CityPalos Verdes, CA
excited jumping ready
I was excited to get out there and play, I was jumping around, ready to go.
hoping ready recover
I was hoping to recover in time, but unfortunately I'm not yet ready to play competitively.
ability happened hopefully last ready repeat
I feel like I'm ready for the challenges. I feel like I have the ability to play well and hopefully repeat what happened last year, and go better.
decide decision hopefully rash ready rest start training year
I would never make a rash decision over one match. I'll decide how much I'll play for the rest of the year and hopefully I'll feel ready to go and start training for Australia,
forward hometown looked ready tournament
I feel this is my hometown tournament and one in which I have always looked forward to playing. My back is just not ready yet for competition.
ready
I feel like I'm ready for the challenges.
happy healthy matches ready
I'm really happy first of all, I was able to come here and get through all these matches and still feel healthy and ready to go for New York,
happy healthy matches obviously positive ready rust test tournament week win
I'm really happy that I was able to come here and get through these matches and still feel healthy and ready to go to New York, ... This was a big test for my back. I think it was real important just to play some matches and get the rust out of my game. Obviously to win this tournament is a bonus. Overall, the week was nothing but a positive for me.
seemed serves tried trying
I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.
encouraged experience gets match nerves nice tight whenever
I was really encouraged by how the first set went, ... and at the same time, I got a really tight set under my belt. You get nerves whenever a match gets that close, so it was nice to experience that again.
bizarre huge manages positive stay
She's a huge fighter. She manages to stay very positive in some bizarre circumstances in matches.
bali excited glad means players thinking win won
I am really excited to win over 50 titles, ... That means a lot to me as not many players have won that. I was thinking about it after I won Bali and was glad to be able to do it here right off the bat.
likely stay win
If I win the U.S. Open, I'll most likely stay there. So I'll just concentrate on that.
counting days
I was actually a little nervous. I've been counting down the days because I wanted to play.