Tennis Industry Quotes

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.

Tennis is failing to renew its fanbase. And that's very worrying, because the future doesn't look bright.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

What we know is that probably the face of tennis post Covid-19 will not be the same anymore. The economic crisis probably is going to strike us really hard. All the business in general, but also the tennis business.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.