It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

Tennis is all about mental toughness and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Well I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are in this moment the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders it's a total body workout for your legs and abs and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.

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

I'm a big sports guy - golf tennis baseball basketball snowboarding - and I love games.

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

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

Boxing mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I love various sports including basketball tennis and billiards.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this and because I thought golf would be too slow for me and I was too scared to swim.

I used to play a lot of racket sports tennis and squash.

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running you don't need a particular place like in tennis just a pair of trainers.

Tennis and golf are best played not watched.

When I was 40 my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

There was endless action - not just football but sailboats tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I was always very interested in science and I knew that for me science was a better long-term career than tennis.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

I used to get nervous you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually because now I enjoy it. I see that they you know respect me immensely and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis not let anything get to me like crazy questions. But I'm tough let me tell you tough as nails.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

First of all let me say 1:15 in the morning for 20 000 people to still be here I wasn't the winner tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

My mom she's from Ireland coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.