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
loss winning league
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.
fun thinking play
I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity of confidence, I think things get a little tough. I knew I could be doing better than what I was doing. Even though I was ranked 5 or 4 or whatever it was, I wanted to get back to the level I thought I could play at.
trying one-day being-the-best
You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.
children divorce want
Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
ball felt hitting panicked uptight within
I felt within myself. I felt like I was hitting the ball well and I wasn't panicked and I wasn't uptight about anything.
felt
I felt that I wasn't even close, to be honest,
change played
I feel like I've never really played all that well at Staples, and I'd like to change that.
battles few tough
You used to get a lot more really tough battles in the first few rounds,
athlete girl good great
The girl is such a great athlete and so good off the ground,
again city fantastic great supporters tennis tournament
The city of Philadelphia and the tournament have been fantastic supporters of women's tennis and I know will once again put on a great event.