Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport is an American tennis player, born on June 8, 1976, on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in California.
Davenport attended Chadwick School and Murrieta Valley High School, both in California, during her formative years before entering the professional ranks of the sport.
As a citizen of the United States, Davenport competed on the professional tennis circuit and earned recognition through formal honors. She received the Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award, an acknowledgment of her performance among the leading players of her time. She was subsequently inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a distinction conferred on those whose careers have merited the sport's most enduring institutional recognition.
The arc of Davenport's career, from her schooling in California through to her induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is marked by those two awards — the ESPY and the Hall of Fame — as concrete anchors of what her time in professional tennis produced.
Quotes by Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport's insights on:
I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.
You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?'
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
I donate lots to charity. I don’t necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.
In the history of women’s tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
I couldn’t imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.
