Taylor Dent
Taylor Dent
Taylor Phillip Dentis a retired professional tennis player from the United States. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21, winning 4 singles titles...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth24 April 1981
felt physically
Physically I felt great. He didn't put me under that much pressure.
games guy hit pass playing possible return short theory track winners
My theory on return games is making the guy play as much as possible and if I get a short ball, I'm going to come in and make him pass me, ... But God, he hit a lot of winners and was playing really well. I had to track down a lot of balls.
advantage blocked guys mark returns taking
The advantage is going to be with guys taking those blocked returns out of the air. Mark my words.
fault guys played shame states tennis
You know, it's a shame they were so good, ... But tennis was so big in the States because of them. I played tennis because of those guys. You can't really fault those guys for being so good.
andy bummer coming hype tournament
You know, it's a shame. Obviously, all the hype with Andy coming in here, this was his tournament. It's a bummer for the tournament that he lost.
This is costing me a lot in pride, too!
accused agency armstrong leaking results wrongly
I'm disappointed in the system, ... This agency is leaking these results prematurely. I think Lance Armstrong was wrongly accused and it may be the same for Mariano.
bath covering feeling forward fresh good helps ice legs looking sure
I'm feeling good, you know. I'm not looking forward to my ice bath later, but good right now. Just good for the legs, good for me. It helps my legs recover, so just do it every night. It's just to get the legs fresh and make sure I'm covering all the bases.
half lost match matches past percent reason serve year
It's disappointing, but it's actually more frustrating than anything else because I feel like I lost that match for the same reason that I've lost 99 percent of my matches over the past year and a half or so. My serve just really let me down today.
It's disappointing, but it's actually more frustrating than anything else,
andy bummer coming hot kid tournament
Andy was kind of the hot kid coming in here, ... It's a bummer for the tournament that he lost, but that's men's tennis. Unfortunately, it's just so deep.
bottom trying win
Bottom line, everybody's trying to win out there,
bad cheering lose match players soon start
As soon as you try to start controlling what the other players are doing, you're going to find yourself pretty frustrated, ... At the end of the day, I am not going to lose the match because he's cheering on my bad shots.
battling couple double four game hit next problem serve serves
The problem I'm battling with is the consistency. I can serve four aces one game and come out the next game, hit a couple of double faults, not make any first serves and get broken.