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
win
I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.
counting days
I was actually a little nervous. I've been counting down the days because I wanted to play.
last scared time tried
I was a little scared going out. The last time I tried to play, it didn't go so well.
last nervous time tried
I was a little nervous out there because the last time I tried to play my back wouldn't let me,
played second third
I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.
certainly hard knowing playing prepared worked
Knowing that I worked hard and knowing that I'm playing well certainly makes me feel very prepared going into Melbourne.
everybody playing premier step
Getting everybody playing is the first step to really getting it back to a premier sport.
learn per served
Someone said she served at 125, 126 (miles per hour) here. So I have to learn some more about her.
hopefully points possible short towards trying
I was trying to keep the points as short as possible towards the end. Hopefully it will get better each day that passes.
extremely happy playing step
I was very happy with the way I served. She was playing extremely well from the baseline, so it was even more important for me to be able to step it up on my serve.
feeling four games next second
I was up 2-1 in the second and for the next four games I was feeling really nauseous, like I was going to get sick,
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.
gets happy match played player type
I was happy to get her in the first match because she's the type of player who gets better as tournaments go on. I played well.
hoping ready recover
I was hoping to recover in time, but unfortunately I'm not yet ready to play competitively.