Sloane Stephens Quotes

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.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it's the one I've won all the points with.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

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

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.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I started with the two-handed backand before Borg was famous.