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
against played
She has played well against me a lot of times,
few gave
She gave me a few errors, which always helps,
She really makes you go for a lot and think about shots.
ball consistent finally points win
She mixes up the ball so much you never really get any rhythm, and finally I got a little more consistent and was able to win the big points today.
bit dramatic takes wins
She is a little bit dramatic when she wins and it takes her a while to get to the net,
few great pure
She is a great competitor, one of the few pure lefties on the tour,
absolutely believe career contention court plans playing titles
Obviously, you never know when a career is going come to an end, ... I have no absolute, no plans to stop. If I said on court as long as I am playing and in contention for titles and not injured, I am going to be back, I absolutely believe that.
ball excited hitting
My back was not a problem. I was consistent, hitting the ball hard, and I am very excited about that.
best feels fine played scared since weeks
My back is good. I was scared going out on the court. But it feels fine right now. It's been 7-to-8 weeks since I played a match. I didn't play my best but I won.
difference far finds girl level opponent playing power sure top win
More than anything, the girl finds a way to win and finds a way to get her opponent uncomfortable; I'm sure she has a way to negate power still. Sometimes, we have a difference in level between top 10 and then 10 through 20, but so far she's been playing excellent.
balls easily press pressed
Monday's going to be a lot different story, ... Kim's not going to let me do that so easily and will get more balls back and will really press me a lot more than I've pressed so far.
amazed finally happy improve open pull satisfying sitting struggling win
I'm a little happy and amazed to be sitting here winning, ... There are a lot of things I'd like to improve on before the US Open but it's so satisfying to win the title. I was always struggling in the final. After all these years, I'm happy to finally pull it out.
brought coming enjoyed match matches minds people seem sorry sticks time touched whatever
I had people coming up all the time and even now they are still and they seem very touched by what happened. I don't know if it's because they feel sorry for me or they really enjoyed the match or whatever it may be. But for some reason, that match sticks out more in fan's minds than other matches that they've ever brought up to me.
felt obviously played prefer tennis
I felt I played really well the first set and a half. Obviously that's the kind of tennis I prefer to play.