Ivan Lendl: "Nobody hates communists more than I do - not even Rush Limbaugh!”

Spooky, it was only the other day I was wondering what Lendl was up to these days. Interesting interview (and very long!).

From The Sunday Times

May 24, 2009

The Ivan Lendl interview

Tennis ace Ivan Lendl was mocked and derided but he is smiling now

A sweltering Saturday afternoon at Feather Sound Golf Club in Florida: he unfolds the small plastic chair he paid five bucks for in Walmart and plants himself at the back of the sixth green. “This is the life,” he sighs, “watching your kids play sport.” The clipped Czech accent hasn’t changed but the expression is unrecognisable. Ivan Lendl is beaming.

I have travelled from London to write a feature on Lendl and his five sporting daughters. Two of them, Isabelle, 18, and Daniela, 16, are golf prodigies and were playing this afternoon in a Future Collegians World Tour event at Feather Sound. The arrangement was that I would interview Lendl before the round and then follow him as he watched them play the 18 holes.

The walk was as enjoyable as any I have spent on a golf course but the interview wasn’t quite what we had planned. His girls are witty and lovely and brilliant but how do you spend a day with a tennis legend and ignore the quirks and traits that drove him to the top?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/paul_kimmage/article6349407.ece

Beat the snot rag!

:shrug:

It seemed appropriate off of the headline in the OP.

:-)

instead of 'sports?' What a Commie!


*edit on the grammatical tip*

Navratilova shares his feelings...totally understandable on his part.