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Ivan Lendl, a legendary Czechoslovakian tennis player, dominated the sport in the 1980s with his powerful baseline game and relentless work ethic. His record-setting career, which included multiple Grand Slam titles and a stint as world number one, cemented his status as one of the greatest players in tennis history.
"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed."
Now,
"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."
"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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