Karolina Pliskova Quotes

I feel like my serve is a little bit better with each match.

It's not easy to serve, because I'm not that tall, but I'm trying to be more consistent and to deliver heavier serves.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.

My father loved the single-handed backhand, so to him, that was the main goal; we were always fascinated by that shot. He taught me all the technique and how to structure my game. I was really privileged to have a father like that.

I think I'm a very powerful player; I can hit good groundstrokes.

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands on both sides, which I didn't stop doing until I was about 8.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

Against Serena, you never know how she's serving.

On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.

When you have the ball above the net height on grass, it's easier to play, and when the ball comes at you more slowly, it's easier to play. But when a guy hits hard and deep, I think you have to have been out there playing to understand, but it's hard to really hit the ball.

Mikhail Youzhny likes the grass and has plenty of weapons to hurt you with.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

Sometimes I just put some first serve in, which, on break points, it's pretty important.

Of course I don't have a big serve. I have other weapons. That's why tennis is a nice sport.

I never casually shoot shots, ever. I shoot the same way every time. I shoot the same shots that I'd shoot during the game.

Ronaldinho and David Beckham, they took free kicks and took them very well, so there are some players I always try to follow and to learn important things from so that I am able to score goals.

In practice, there is no consequence. If you miss a ball, you just pick up another ball and serve again, or you come back the next day and play. In the matches, every point has got a consequence. If you lose, you don't come back the next day and play.