Tennys Sandgren

I'm fine talking about a lot of things.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

Are you going to get offended when someone says something that is counter to your worldview? I think you need to be willing to change your worldview or, at least, be open to other people's ideas.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

If everybody thinks you're amazing, you probably are doing something wrong.

My game has been improving as I've been working. Little things are getting better. Which, I would hope so - it's all I do every day.

Would I consider myself alt-right, if you want to ask that question? No, I don't. Not even a little bit. I think I am a pretty devout Christian, and I treat my walk with Christ very seriously - very seriously - in a way that I'm constantly looking at the things I do and how that affects me existentially.

I'm hesitant to compare myself to Roger Federer in any way, but he's improved while he's in his thirties. That makes you believe that even though you may have struggled for a few years, there's still hope.

I'm more than happy to talk with people and let people know how I feel about things.

Who you follow on Twitter, I feel like, doesn't matter even a little bit.

When I order sandwiches or coffee, I don't give my name: I'll say 'David' or something. It's just not worth it. They never mess 'David' up. I just want my sandwich; I just want my coffee.

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

If people enjoy watching me play, or if I can have a good interaction with somebody, that's a win.

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

I think there was, like, a childhood moment where I had to pick shoes, either non-marking or marking shoes. The marking shoes were Spider-Man shoes. I'm like, 'Well, I want the Spider-Man shoes.' But I also didn't want to mark the court; I want to be able to play. I chose the generic, non-marking shoes.

I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'

To say, 'Well, he's following X person, so he believes all the things that this person believes'... I think that's ridiculous.

I have ideas, but those ideas could be wrong. The only way that you would change someone's mind is through dialogue, through productive discussion. If you're not going to have productive discussion, what are you going to do?

My parents and my older brother played. You kind of want to do what your family does. They were on the court. I'm like, 'I want to be on the court, too.'