Mats Wilander Quotes

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.

I would love to have been a tennis player simply because of Serena Williams.

I am a big fan of players like Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Leander Paes. I would love to see them play.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.

I just enjoy watching tennis. And there's things that you can learn from the men's and the women's game.

India has a very good tradition in tennis.

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

If you look at the likes of Agnieszka Radwanska and Svetlana Kuznetsova, they've been around a long time and been successful for a long time. That speaks volumes for them.

I've always wanted to play Davis Cup. I love Davis Cup.

For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.

I have played some good matches against Rafa on clay.

In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.

When you play against Rafa, you have to play two hours and 40, 45 minutes.

It's hard to win Grand Slams.