heavyballs: tennis quotes that really pound their message home
  1. Mmmmmm. His touch is exquisite.
    – Dick Enberg, on Roger Federer

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  2. 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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  3. 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

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  4. 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.”)

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  5. 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)

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  6. 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

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  7. 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 novelist tennis blogger

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  8. 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)

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  9. … see Roddick sliding his balls in deep?
    – Chris Fowler

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  10. obscurereality:

    Things I wish I never heard…. “Well he’s being taken to the wood shed by Soderling”

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