Jim Courier
Jim Courier
James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr.is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. During his career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles, two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open. He holds the record for being the youngest man to have reached the finals of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments, at the age of 22 years and 11 months. He also won five Masters 1000 series titles. Until Novak Djokovic in 2016, Courier was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth17 August 1970
CitySanford, FL
CountryUnited States of America
This is a way to space it out, manage it so your body can be sustained. The mental grind is something that forces most of us off the circuit.
He's got to get a little more emphatic,
He's going to have to be a little more emphatic at times,
Roger (Federer) has said unequivocally that he doesn't want Hawk-Eye, he doesn't want to change anything, but if you're playing as well as he is, you don't want to change your socks, your underwear, your girlfriend, your agent, anything.
He would just outwork people. You think you hit a winner and the ball comes back to you. OK, you think. But when that happens on every single point it can really mess with you.
He cannot rip the ball unless his body is moving into the ball ? he's not strong enough.
He'll be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.
He has to be more emphatic at times. He tries to counter punch more ? it works well against everyone except Roger,
Being a father, is it mellowing him out? There's no positive energy and no negative energy for a long time -- very mysterious,
His day is done, and now we're doing it. And we're doing it pretty well and not with fingers in the air and our hands on our crotches.
His game may not be obviously adaptable to grass, but his attitude is,
I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.