Tennis Popularity Quotes

It's an amazing feeling: tennis is growing very quickly in Canada, and to be a big part of it is an honour.

Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.

There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

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

Coming from a country that loves tennis, actually, there are a lot of people who play. We definitely face a lot of challenges when it comes to producing tennis players.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

When people say that American tennis is dead and things like that, you kind of take it a little personal.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

People outside of tennis, all the famous actors and everyone, knows Wimbledon.

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

The only thing I want is tennis to be the biggest sport on the planet.

My goal is to help make tennis transition to what's coming next and to be able to continue to grow rather than falling down, because no new fans come to our sport.

It's nice I inspire the kids. tThat's the most important thing, and more people are now playing tennis, even for fun. That's great.

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

Every time the ATP or WTA speak about changing something, you see the reaction. So I think they're doing a good job because those people are still watching tennis 40 years later and they are still fans so I'm not sure they should change because I don't know how the fans would feel.

Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.