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If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

The part inside the ropes, the part where people decide if it's a good match or a bad match, that's the part that I take very, very, very, very, very seriously and that I respect the most.

If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.