Tennis Instruction Quotes

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, 'This is what I want to do.' She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.

I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.

There was a time when a lot of people, including coaches, were keen that I change my bottom-handed grip.

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

Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built like a rock and spoke with this accent.

I love my life. I commentate for Eurosport, so you could say I've reached the final of every grand slam since 2002 when I started that. I love what I do, and I love playing tennis with amateurs, regular guys, helping to teach them to enjoy tennis more.

I was very fortunate to have a coach when I was young who taught me all the traditional shots and taught me a pretty traditional game style, in a way.

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

USTA helps me out a lot, the Tennis Center. I can't thank them enough.

I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.