Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

If you didn't have power, you had to have touch and serve and volley, which I found very exciting and that's why I love watching Federer play, because of those skills.

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

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.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

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 have a strong tennis arm.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Slowly from just touching the ball I got to making the ball and eventually hitting a decent defensive shot. Because I don't have a lot of weapons I have to use my speed.

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.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

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.

I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.

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

Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.

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.

Of course I don't have a big serve. I have other weapons. That's why tennis is a nice sport.

On clay courts I have some weapons to play a good match.

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