Michael Chang
Michael Chang
Michael Te-Pei Changis an American former tennis player. He became the youngest male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17 years and 4 months...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth22 February 1972
CityHoboken, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
bless god
God bless each and every one of you, especially China.
planes sensitive
I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.
accepted ministry offer post
I accepted the Ministry of Finance's offer to take up the long-vacant post on Wednesday.
pursue touch treated
In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.
biggest bit maybe opponent
My biggest opponent has been the injuries. It's a little bit new for me. Maybe it has to do with El Nino or something.
chinese foreign girls nearly success
Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.
asian hopefully initial
The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.
players
It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.
grow rather slower
I think that I would rather grow racquet-wise than grow taller. I think I would be a lot slower if I got taller. So I wouldn't want to give up that.
accomplish afterwards bit feeling french incredible open quite realized tiger winning woods
He is quite incredible - it made me think a bit about me winning the French Open at 17 and how professionals accomplish things so young. I had the feeling Tiger Woods did not quite know what was going on and it was like that for me at the French. It was only afterwards that I realized the significance.
long chinese pasta
As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
training want way
You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
body language tendencies
I see tendencies, I see body language.
blow thinking feet
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.