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
challenges clay curious fans sold somebody third understand unlimited
I'm not sold on only two challenges in a set. On clay courts, we have unlimited challenges. I'm curious to see if somebody is down 5-6 in the third set and they have used up their challenges. Are fans going to understand that?
bring focus quality tournament
I'm going to play when I'm healthy, when it's right, ... I try to focus on the quality that I can bring to each tournament that I enter.
amazed expect happy improve matches sitting title
I'm happy and amazed that I'm sitting here winning, ... You never know what to expect when you come back. I'm really happy I got the matches in, (but) I still think there's a lot of things I would like to improve on before the US Open, but to sit here with a title is pretty rewarding.
amazed happy sitting
I'm happy and amazed that I'm sitting here winning,
balls consistent playing
I mean, when she's playing consistent and she can make more balls than she's missing, she's playing tough.
argue deserve disrespect low priority saying
I'm not going to argue that I deserve to be No. 1. I don't want to disrespect it by saying it's low on the priority, but it's not up in my priority list.
definitely next quicker start
I'm definitely going to have to do something to try to get off to a quicker start in the next match,
gets grand maybe proud top tough year
I'm really proud of myself that I'm so consistent. But it gets tough to be at the top year after year and not have one of the Grand Slams. Maybe I'll still get lucky.
bizarre extra feeling hit knew match pride walking
I knew before the match started that I was in. It was a bizarre feeling walking out. It was hard. There are no ranking points, no extra money, nothing like that. That's a shame. But when I started losing, pride hit me.
allowed broke errors few giving good
I made a few errors and allowed her to come back into the match, giving her confidence. She broke me a few times but I still managed to come back, and I feel good about that.
ability encompass good handle players playing tennis trying
I'm one who can't handle anything but playing tennis and trying to be married, that's about good enough for me, ... But, you know, other players have the ability to encompass a lot more.
likely stay win
If I win the U.S. Open, I'll most likely stay there. So I'll just concentrate on that.
chance confidence definitely early gave looking plays second
I had the chance there after the first set, she wasn't looking so good. I definitely let her back in early in the second and gave her some confidence and when she has confidence, she plays really well.
coming expect experience happy held matches matter played test winning
I'm very happy to be here winning the title, ... No matter how much experience or how long you have played you never really know what to expect after coming back from an injury. I really wanted to come in here and kind of test my back and play matches and see how everything held up.