Quotes About Tennis

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Billie-Jean King used to take me out on court and say that she just wanted to watch my forehand. You can't get greater praise than that.

The more time you spend on tour, around the top guys especially, you see what they do, the work, the preparation, the organization they have going into their training. It all leads up to playing great tennis. It really opens your eyes.

That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.

When I was 16, I had a massive crush on our tennis coach and every time he came round to teach my brothers I used to sit outside and pretend to be reading something really intellectual.

The way I hit the ball is with a pretty good amount of topspin. It's a heavy ball that bounces up from the clay courts. But I shouldn't forget that I grew up half the year playing indoors on a hard court because Norway is a cold country.

I think someone like Denis Shapovalov on a fast court and being left-handed is a massive, massive danger to everybody.

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

Davis Cup helped me a lot. Being in that great atmosphere and having the chance to hit with top 50 guys everyday, being on the practice courts, that gave me a lot of confidence.

Davis Cup is a completely different animal.

I think my best friends are my team-mates in Davis Cup. We have been growing up together since we were 11 or 12.

Davis Cup is important.

I always wanted to play Davis Cup.

The court is where I can express something that I've got deep inside me.

I'd love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.

With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.

I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd as well.

I like to bake, so sometimes I do the desserts. I don't eat too much desserts, though, because I need to be able to move around on the court.

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.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

If the US Open was a two-week trip to Ibiza, Wimbledon was a meditative hike through a scenic national park.

Then Ms. Conners blows her whistle to stop and explain the retarded scoring system in tennis where the numbers don't make sense and love doesn't count for anything.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match