The sport of tennis has seen some remarkable legends. Ivan Lendl is surely one of them. The legendary player made a superb mark in this sport. He changed the way this sport is played, and has its impact even till the present time.
He has proved in his career that sheer discipline and determination are the ways to master this game. The tennis great once during his career had said, “If I don’t practice the way I should, then I won’t play the way that I know I can.”
He was widely popular for his amazing lethal topspin forehand as well as one handed backhand. He has displayed a professional attitude during his playing tennis career which youngsters admire and want to follow. His strokes were solid and made very fast moves over the court. The fierce persistence in his training regime, made him rightfully earn his ranking as the top player in the world between the year 1985 and 1987. The ace player has a magnificent record to win 8 Grand Slam during his career. He was named the number 1 tennis player in the world over the span of astonishing 270 weeks. He was fabulous in regard to tournament victories, and achieved remarkable success in 16 different countries.
Lendl had a significant impact on this sport through his sheer dominance while playing on the international scale. The playing style he had depended on strength as well as heavy topspin from baseline. He was recognized for getting with himself the modern era representing “power tennis”. The player termed his playing style like “hitting hot”, that entails the relentless game over the court.

The tennis fans were overjoyed when in the year 2001 Lendl got inducted to the International Tennis Hall of Fame for his marvelous performance as well as numerous contributions towards the game.