Serve and Volley Quotes

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Outdoor tennis plays into my strengths a little better.

There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.

In the past, I've played where I only just rely on my serve.

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

Strangely enough, Kathy Jordan is getting to the net first, which she always does.

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

When I'm playing well because of my serve and trying to keep points shorter, I don't need to worry about my opponent. All I need to do is focus on myself and have them adjust to me rather than me adjust to them. That's when I play my best tennis.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

My game is suited to grass because I'm really aggressive on the court. I have a big serve, I'm quick, I hit the ball hard, and I go to net so I have everything a player needs to do well on grass.

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.

We all know how good Roger is on grass.

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

I was a big fan of Pete Sampras.

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

Lleyton Hewitt... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.

I think my best tennis is good enough to win.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

If I serve good and play aggressive from the baseline, I can beat everyone.

If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

I don't have the same serve speed as some of the guys, but I have good footwork, and I take the ball early.

Sometimes you go through a few tournaments without having a five-setter.