[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fixie6sYrM0iDzDnAdmJtjjjIB83n9_d6aCJom3mS4Yg":3,"$f1LqfMlWRoqUQUqDiFY4OqtgVilfmKMi846NdZjw4u5w":50},{"author":4,"tags":49},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"bio_jsonld":11,"slug":47,"image_url":48},157346,"Ivan Lendl","I",69,"Receiving the International Tennis Hall of Fame award placed Ivan Lendl among those whose careers the sport has chosen to formally recognize, a distinction that sits at the center of his public record.\n\nBorn on March 7, 1960, in Ostrava, Lendl holds both Czechoslovakian and United States citizenship, a dual national identity that runs through how he is described in the record: Czech-American, a designation that reflects a life shaped by two countries. Czech is among the languages he uses, as is English, and that combination speaks to the breadth of his personal geography. The Library of Congress records him as \"Lendl, Ivan, 1960-,\" a spare archival anchor for a life that extends well beyond any single entry.\n\nHis occupations, as documented, are multiple and distinct. Tennis player and tennis coach are the roles most closely associated with his name, and it is as a former professional player and coach that he is formally described. Alongside those, the record identifies him as a golfer and as an art collector, two pursuits that place him outside the boundaries of the sport that first brought him to wider attention. The combination of these activities gives the documented outline of his life an unusual range, moving from competition to coaching to collecting to the golf course.\n\nThe Hall of Fame award remains the most concrete institutional fact in the record attached to his name, a recognition tied directly to his work as a tennis player and coach. That the Library of Congress entry holds simply to his name and birth year — \"Lendl, Ivan, 1960-\" — while the fuller record extends to art collecting, golf, two citizenships, and two languages, suggests something of the distance between a formal archival designation and the actual scope of a documented life.","Receiving the International Tennis Hall of Fame award placed Ivan Lendl among those whose careers the sport has chosen to formally recognize, a distinction that sits at the center of his public record.",{"@graph":12,"@context":46},[13,23],{"@id":14,"name":6,"@type":15,"sameAs":16,"birthDate":21,"description":22},"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182736","Person",[14,17,18,19,20],"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl","https://viaf.org/viaf/54950841/","https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82125957","https://d-nb.info/gnd/119115131","1960-03-07","Czech-American tennis player",{"@type":24,"author":25,"headline":28,"isBasedOn":29,"mainEntity":30,"reviewedBy":31,"articleBody":9,"dateCreated":32,"dateModified":33,"additionalProperty":34,"creativeWorkStatus":45},"Article",{"name":26,"@type":27},"Editorial Team","Organization","Ivan Lendl — biography",[14,17,19],{"@id":14},{"name":26,"@type":27},"2026-05-24T02:39:39.627111+00:00","2026-05-24T02:47:28.991041+00:00",[35,39,42],{"@type":36,"value":37,"propertyID":38},"PropertyValue","Q182736","wikidata",{"@type":36,"value":40,"propertyID":41},"1.000","factscore",{"@type":36,"value":43,"propertyID":44},"claude-sonnet-4-6-r1","draftModel","AI-drafted, auto-published","https://schema.org","ivan-lendl",null,[],{"quotes":51,"pagination":115},[52,60,66,73,79,85,91,97,103,109],{"id":53,"quote_text":54,"author_id":5,"source_id":55,"has_image":56,"author":57,"source":58,"quote_tag":59,"commentary":48},3703097,"I like to compete.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":61,"quote_text":62,"author_id":5,"source_id":55,"has_image":56,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":48},3703084,"In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":48},3091613,"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.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":48},3091596,"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn’t always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":80,"quote_text":81,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":82,"source":83,"quote_tag":84,"commentary":48},3091593,"It’s flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he’s the best player in the world.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":86,"quote_text":87,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":88,"source":89,"quote_tag":90,"commentary":48},3091588,"I certainly don’t lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":92,"quote_text":93,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":94,"source":95,"quote_tag":96,"commentary":48},3091582,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":98,"quote_text":99,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":100,"source":101,"quote_tag":102,"commentary":48},3091578,"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That’s not exactly where I wanted to be.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":104,"quote_text":105,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":106,"source":107,"quote_tag":108,"commentary":48},3091566,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":110,"quote_text":111,"author_id":5,"source_id":69,"has_image":56,"author":112,"source":113,"quote_tag":114,"commentary":48},3091562,"It’s very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"currentPage":116,"totalPages":55,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":117},1,10]