It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.
You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.