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But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

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You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.

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Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

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If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

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I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

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It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

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If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

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

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Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Athlete

Born: March 7th, 1960

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