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Mmmmmm. His touch is exquisite.
– Dick Enberg, on Roger Federer -
I have to give also great credit to Rafa the way he swallowed it all, tried extremely hard. I was very impressed. I really liked to see that.
Roger on Rafa, 2007, here
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Nadal is a guy you don’t have as much success going behind because he’s so good using that hand.
– commentator on the Nadal-Soderling match -
Stan plays heavy balls, deep balls, long balls.
– Roger Federer (who also tells us that, “The best thing is to move around and then use your forehand.”) -
She [Stosur] has beautiful qualities on clay because she plays kind of a man’s tennis. I mean, she has very heavy balls.
– Justine Henin (source) -
You might be able to push the top players, but if you give them half a chance they’ll jump on you before you know it.
– commentator for the Djokovic-Hanescu match -
Jesse Levine […] may be better known as the lad Roger Federer chose to import to his Arabian desert hideaway a few years back, when he wanted to do some intensive training in order to maintain his ascendancy (Levine, like a certain raven-haired youth from the Spanish island of Mallorca, is a lefty).
– Peter Bodo,romance novelisttennis blogger -
Well, it’s a lot of fun, I think, if juniors come over 16, 17, 18 year olds, because for them, anything I need them for in practice, they’re excited.
– Roger Federer (post match press conference) -
… see Roddick sliding his balls in deep?
– Chris Fowler -
Things I wish I never heard…. “Well he’s being taken to the wood shed by Soderling”