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
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.
panicked uptight
I wasn't panicked and I wasn't uptight about anything.
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,
far good match
Yeah, it would be a good story line. But, you know, it's one match away, but a really far match away.
exactly
I'm still not exactly where I want to be. I still feel I can get better and be more consistent.
exactly
I'm still not exactly where I want to be.
build coming days forget grand great losing tennis win
I will never forget Wimbledon, it is something that I don't want to forget, ... There was great disappointment in losing that, but the great thing about tennis is that you have more tournaments and more Grand Slams. I have another one coming up in two days and I am going to try to win it and build some more memories.
hope matter titles win
It is a milestone, ... I hope I get there. But 48 is still pretty amazing, no matter what happens, and it's been great. I couldn't have guessed that I would win that many titles in my career, so I will try and get the 50.
bit felt stepped today
Today I felt like I stepped it up a little bit better and was more consistent.
high junior money school
To get any kind of money when you're a junior in high school is kind of spectacular.
couple fast games great last match
You always want to get the match over with as fast as you can, ... But I've got to say, she did play some great shots. The last couple of games were really close.
answer ecstatic excited far few leave love question
That's way too far ahead, ... I'm so excited to be in the quarters. I'm going to leave it at that. I would love to answer that question in a few more days, but right now I'm just ecstatic to be where I am.
happy
I was really happy with the way I started out today,
excited win year
I am very excited I was able to win here, my first year here,