Say what?! US Open day 10 best quotes

“I think everyone has their favorite, and everyone has their least-favorite player. Whatever I am to any person out there, doesn’t really affect me personally. I mean, I have my favorites in every sport and in general. You know, I even have my favorite tennis players.”
CoCo Vandeweghe on being both appreciated and misunderstood

“This is going to give me crap but I’m a Federer person.”
CoCo Vandeweghe when asked who her favourite was between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal

“My game was modeled off of Sampras, at least my serve. So I think I have spent more time watching Sampras than I did Agassi. So I will probably get some crap for that one.”
CoCo Vandeweghe when asked who her favourite was between Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi

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“It’s nice to have people that aspire to be like you or have similarities that you do, and hopefully I can conduct myself in a fashion that the parents might be happy to have their kid looking up to me.”
CoCo Vandeweghe on being a role model

“I don’t have any compelling comeback stories. I think I’m out of that narrative a little bit. Sorry. Sorry I can’t help there.”
CoCo Vandeweghe is feeling left out of the comeback stories

“There is many more Grand Slams to come, so I believe I can win one.”
Karolina Pliskova is not giving up on her Grand Slam dream

“It happens. I don’t know. I mean, it’s hard to explain.”
Roger Federer on his quarterfinal loss

“Juan Martin deserves it more. I feel I have no place in the semis and he will have a better chance to beat Rafa, to be honest. The way I played or playing right now, it’s not good enough in my opinion to win this tournament. It’s better I’m out and somebody else gets a chance to do better than me.”
Roger Federer on missing out on playing Rafael Nadal in the semifinals

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“The strategy is always the same. That is play very well.”
Rafael Nadal keeps his game plan simple

“You don’t need to explain. I know everything. To be short.”
Rafael Nadal’s response to a journalist talking about his rivalry with Roger Federer

“I don’t want to look like I gonna be his boyfriend, no? (Laughter.) We don’t want to talk these kind of things before important match.”
Rafael Nadal didn’t want to share what he admires most about Roger Federer

“It’s a big honour for me to hear this from him, and, I mean, now I have to prove that he’s maybe right.”
Andrey Rublev after hearing Rafael Nadal predicted he will have a lot of success

“After having a big win the other night, and then all of a sudden being in a match where you’re supposed to win, it was a lot. And then being the last American. It was really bad (smiling). I texted (coach) Lindsay (Davenport) to have a speech ready for when I got here.”
Madison Keys on feeling extra pressure before her quarterfinal

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“All of the things that were kind of thrown at me this whole year and having some really low moments and, you know, there was a moment where I came off the court, and I said, I don’t know if I’m ever going to win a tennis match again. There was definitely a lot of dark moments. To have this really feels good and makes me really proud of myself.”
Madison Keys reflects on how far she has come after a wrist injury

“I think the game being taken away from you really makes you realise how much you love it, and it takes a lot of the pressure off just because you remember why you do it. And it’s not to win matches and make people happy. It’s just because you truly love being out there.”
Madison Keys on her fresh perspective

“I think she was just better today.”
Kaia Kanepi dissects her loss to Madison Keys