Virginia Graham Quotes

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.

Against Serena, you never know how she's serving.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

I'm really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love.

We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands on both sides, which I didn't stop doing until I was about 8.

Most guys aren't getting a racquet or putting balls back in off my serve most of the time.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

I love Agassi - I really followed him a lot when I was a teenager and remember when guys like him and Michael Chang were just unstoppable. He was really inspiring. Every match was so dramatic and exciting. The guy played with a lot of heart.

I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.

My father loved the single-handed backhand, so to him, that was the main goal; we were always fascinated by that shot. He taught me all the technique and how to structure my game. I was really privileged to have a father like that.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

I think I'm a very powerful player; I can hit good groundstrokes.

I'm an awesome ping pong player.

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.