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As It Appeared in the Print Edition INTERVIEW/LINDSAY DAVENPORT To win here is amazing' NIRMAL SHEKAR N a way, Lindsay Davenport was not ready for the biggest day of her career. She did not have a proper dress to wear and she had to go to the Wimbledon champions' ball in a borrowed dress. "I woke up in the morning and said, God, I don't have a dress now," Davenport said. No matter. That - borrow- ing a dress - was easy enough. But, before she got around to finding a dress, Davenport had a tougher task on hand, trying to deny the greatest player of all time the chance to say goodbye to Wimbledon in style. Then again, to accomplish that mission - the task of beat- ing Steffi Graf in the final - Davenport had all that was nec- essary. On the centre court, when you are found short, there is no one to borrow from. But, on that Sunday, the friendly American was wonderfully well equipped to deal with the seven-time champion. Beating the defending cham- pion Jana Novotna handily in the quarterfinals, Davenport went on to surprise everyone on July 4 playing with a rare combina- tion of confidence and skills on a surface where her past results were rather unimpressive. In the end, when the last ball was struck, the big lady was in tears. Excerpts from an interview with the champion after the final. Question: Tears of joy in the end, Lindsay? Answer: I couldn't believe it. I was in a state of shock. I sat down in the chair and started wondering how I would climb up to the box. It's amazing to win. here not dropping a set and toI I3 beat Graf and Novotna, the best•* <5 TheSportStar July 24,1999 grass court players we have. It is I hope I can keep it when it believe I deserve to be out there. a different feeling to be the gets into a big match again. But I believe that I can win these big Wimbledon champion, to come for some reason, the rain delay tournaments. I don't have any back here next year and play on helped me a little bit to calm doubts. Those who are strong Tuesday at 2 p.m., no matter down, just relax about the whole mentally break through and win. what happens. I can't wait. thing and look at the situation. How does this compare Coining into this tourna- Over the last 12 months, with the U.S. Open victory of ment, did you really believe you a lot has happened in your career. last year? could win here? Has it changed the way you think The U.S. Open was an incred- I always believed that my best of yourself as a tennis player? ible one because it was my first chances were on hard court and I think when Rafter won the one. And here it was one more. after struggling here for a cou- U.S. Open someone said he was I can't believe I overcame myself ple of years, and not playing well a one-slam wonder. And now to to win on grass and to win two on grass, to win here is amaz- win two for myself, and on two is incredible. I mean I have won ing. different surfaces, means I am a the two biggest tournaments [t didn't look like you were pretty good all-round player. A there are in the world. Not many nervous at all out there, playing couple of days ago, the odds were players can say that. in your first Wimbledon final. 15 to 1, and to defy the experts Steffi has said she's not It was the most unbelievable on that and play well, it just feels going to come back to thing that I was not nervous. I incredible. It is a tough tourna- Wimbledon. What are your was so calm about it. To serve ment to win, with the rain delays, thoughts on that? an ace at 3O-15(serving for the the surface and everything. To I didn't think it was probably match) was really big. Obviously pull through and be such a fight- the end, but it's looking pretty the first matchpoint I hit it in er, it is something I will never obvious that she's retiring some the net, but came back no prob- forget. time this year, and it's sad. I mean, lem, hit a great first serve and it Your belief that you can she came through so much, she was over. I just kept my cool, win on grass... how did it start? is probably the greatest player and to do that and not to lose It is tough when you lose bad- ever. serve the whole match was amaz- ly in the second round a couple But at the same time, I think ing. of years. it is probably cool that she is going Lindsay, can we say that But the last two years I have out on her own terms. I think you had a strategy before the come in here feeling good. Before that's how we'd all like to end match and that you followed it coming to Wimbledon, I have our career, still playing well. almost perfectly? been able to practice on the grass Lindsay, so many times in The strategy obviously is not court by myself, spend a lot of this sport you get attention only to lose serve on grass which I time on it, get my footing a lit- by being outrageous. Have you guess I followed, but not really. tle bit better. If you feel like you ever felt cursed by being nor- I knew I had to serve well to win are hitting the ball well and ear- mal, ever feel you should make the match, hit it hard and deep ly, then anything can happen. something up? and come into the backhand. I Over the last two or three No. I think it's the greatest just stuck with everything and I years, how much have you thing to get attention for win- think my serve pulled me out of improved physically and men- ning tournaments, and for being a lot of tough games. That real- tally? a good person, and for being nor- ly was the key. I am in a lot better shape phys- mal. You want to open the papers Do you think your calm- ically and I am a little bit more and see so-and-so wins the title, ness came from the fact that you flexible on grass, a little bit quick- and I'd much rather have that did't expect to be in this situa- er and that's what helps. than so-and-so was here.... tion? Mentally, more than anything, I It is a tough tournament to win, with the rain delays, the surface and everything. To pull through and be such a fighter, it is something I will never forget. July 24,1999 TheSportstar.
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