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 think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.
Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
He's a haircut and a forehand.
If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.