Ivan Lendl is a previous tennis gamer, for several years the world's ideal gamer. He was born in Ostrava in the Czech component of Czechoslovakia, as well as became a specialist player in 1978. He covered the globe rankings for the first time in February 1983 and also shed just location in other words periods to 1990. He topped the positions in a total amount of 270 weeks, and also had actually therefore relied on Jimmy Connors record. This record was later on beaten by Pete Sampras.
Ivan Lendl won 94 singles titles during his occupation, and also ended up being a finalist in 19 Grand Slam tournaments, including 8 finals in a row at the U.S. Open from 1982 to 1989. He won the U.S. Open 3 times (1985, 1986 and also 1987), French Open three times (1984, 1986 and 1987) as well as Australian Open twice (1989 and 1990). He never ever took care of to win the Wimbledon competition, and also can therefore not need to complete a Grand Slam in his profession.
Lendl won the Davis Cup with Czechoslovakia in 1980, but 4 years later on he moved to New York and signed up with to participate in Davis Cup play. In 1992 he became an American resident.
Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Ivan.
"If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can"
"I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything"
"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now"
"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that"
"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot"
"I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on"
"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it"
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that"
"You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it"
"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be"
"Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win"
"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange"
"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed"
"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do"
