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I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important to me.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Good Me Fun
Have Fun
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Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Common Sense
Manners
Sweden
Throws
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Nadal tries his best all the time, every point. But Kyrgios can spend 10 minutes looking like he would rather be walking down the King's Road.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Tries
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Andy Murray's already done what is needed for British tennis, which is ignite it. There's a person, there's a player that kids want to be like.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Ignite
Andy
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If an athlete like Michael Jordan played tennis, he would be the best - he's flexible, not too bulky, and has unbelievable hand-to-eye coordination.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Athlete
Coordination
Flexible
Jordan
Tennis
Unbelievable
Played
Michael
Michael Jordan
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No absolutely not, I don't have any regrets about anything I've done in my life I learn from my mistakes and without mistakes I wouldn't be where I am today.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Absolutely Not
Life Today Done
Life Today I Am
Regrets
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I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a few tournaments and then have a family.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Tournaments
Contemplated
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He didn't have the best shots but the intensity of the match and the positive energy you got from playing Yannick Noah was something I didn't get from anyone else.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Intensity
Positive Energy
Anyone Else
Noah
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The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Ranking
Tournaments
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Svitolina moves a little bit better than Ostapenko but Ostapenko goes for it a little earlier in the rallies. The way she plays she can take you out of the equation.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Earlier
Equation
Rallies
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There's no way you can go out there and have a killer instinct on court, be selfish on the court, when there are more important things going on in your life, or in your heart.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Important Things
Instinct
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Everybody gets bored or rather emotionally flat sometimes, but most players are not so honest as Tomic. They have sponsors that need to be happy, and they want to keep the tour happy.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Bored
Sponsors
Emotionally
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Del Potro is one of these miracle men he can come up with these matches where you least expect it and he pulls something out of the bag. I have no idea what it is but he becomes a magician.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Magician
No Idea
Bag
Becomes
Expect
Least
Matches
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I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Disappointed
Disappointing
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I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Former
Weak
Work Focus Me
Mentally
Matt
Pro
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I really enjoyed playing Yannick Noah - he was and still is my favourite. In the heat of the moment he was very fair and very physical. He was strong, big and he moved unbelievably well. He was also mentally tough.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Enjoyed
Favourite
Heat
Moved
Strong
Tough
Mentally
Fair
Moment
Noah
Physical
Unbelievably
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If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Bored
Hide
Role Model
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More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he's playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking 'oh my God, I'm going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that's going to be painful.'
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Clay
Dressing
Dressing Room
Matches
Oh My God
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People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Court
Drama
Exhausted
Guy
Horrible
Mess
Next
Waiting
Talk
Set
Round
Goes
Leaves
Schedule
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Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Sports
Champion
Heart
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I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn't maybe big enough, and I couldn't have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Aftermath
Hockey
Hockey Player
Ice
Skater
Muscle
Good Enough Better
Big Enough
Good Better Enough
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Nadal is just more at home on clay. It looks like he feels safer on clay courts. He can get to a few more balls, he can play a bit further behind the baseline when he defends, and he's also able to get the ball to bounce higher. It's unbelievable.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Bounce
Clay
Unbelievable
Courts
Defends
Safer
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When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Player
Tennis
Thinking
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Miloslav Mecir - best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible... and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Anticipation
Flexible
Our Generation
Slam
Best Good World
Won
Generation
No Question
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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.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Slam
Life Love My Life
Grand
Grand Slam
Reached
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Sure, it comes with a lot of bonus rewards, whatever it may be, some of it may be financial. And it is great to have been No 1 in the world, when you get a bit older you can reflect on it. But I was No 1 in the world before I actually was No 1 in the world, in my mind at least.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Bonus
Rewards
Reflect
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If it doesn't mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn't want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it's worth in tennis.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Britain
Bronze
Gold
Great Britain
Medal
Normal
Olympics
Tennis
Winning
Life Change Great
Dan
Human Being
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Every player, they should sit down and have a meeting. They should agree, 'this is how we play Nadal, this is how we play Federer, this is how we play Djokovic.' Then, all try to play them the same way. The right way. First you have to play the right way, then you need to play well.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Federer
Right Way
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Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Jimmy
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The conditions change so much at the French Open, you know, you have to be prepared for something you really don't know what it is. You can practice in the morning and it's fine, and the weather is great then you come to play in the afternoon and it is drizzly and the conditions are totally different.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Afternoon
Be Prepared
Conditions
Fine
Practice
Prepared
Weather
Totally
Open
French
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To me, Dan Evans is an example of somebody that puts the clock back a little bit and tells everybody: 'Listen, tennis is not a freak sport where you need to have rich parents, who sit in your players' box for every single week of the whole year, and you need to talk to your coaches' box between every shot.'
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Clock
Coaches
Example
Freak
Tennis
Box
Shot
Dan
Sport
Puts
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