“He’s a freak athlete.” Nick Kyrgios explains the challenge of facing Andy Murray.
“He doesn’t have a lot of firepower, but, I mean, you don’t really need to if you don’t miss and cover the court so well.” Thanasi Kokkinakis sums up what makes Novak Djokovic the world number one.
“You haven’t watched my matches, then.” Novak Djokovic is told that he was always very well mannered as a young player.
“If he wins Roland Garros, everybody [will] say it was a good choice. If he lost, it will be wrong.” Jeremy Chardy on Andy Murray’s decision to pull out of the Rome Masters the day after beating the Frenchman.
“I was kind of sliding all over, kind of like a hippo on ice, not a cow.” American Madison Keys invokes Maria Sharapova’s long-ago lament that she felt like “a cow on ice” on clay as she assesses her defeat by Timea Bacsinszky from Switzerland.
“I’m scared. There is a spider on the mic.” Belgian Alison van Uytvanck will do anything to avoid a media grilling.
