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
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.
broke came game glad next service
I was glad I came back the next service game and broke her, so that was important,
excited jumping ready
I was excited to get out there and play, I was jumping around, ready to go.
feeling felt incredible last tough year
It felt like it's been so long. It's an incredible feeling after the tough year last year,
concerned felt funny great today tonight wake
It felt great tonight playing. It was so funny, I was really concerned yesterday, and then today I wake up and it did really well. I felt like I didn't have any limitations.
allow ball felt hitting stepping winners
It felt great. I feel like I didn't allow her to do too much with her game, and I was hitting a lot of winners and stepping in and hitting the ball hard.
against allow attacking balls dictate game hard inside likes pace playing step
I think she really likes to dictate play and step inside and I know that sometimes my balls and the pace of my balls don't allow her to do that, ... I think that she has a hard time, maybe, playing her attacking game against me.
ability encompass great handled players playing since tennis trying winning
I think she has handled everything that has come her way really well since winning Wimbledon. I mean, she's still very young and is a very great player. Other players handle things differently. I'm one who can't handle anything but playing tennis and trying to be married. But other players have the ability to encompass a lot more.
beaten players plays soon top
I still feel like I would have beaten a lot of players today. She's going to be at the top as soon as she plays more and more.
side struggled
I struggled a lot on one side of the court,