The first three years, I don't think I would leave my hotel room outside of tennis, because I was like, 'I got to rest, I got to rest.' It was like sort of a paranoia to do everything as best as I can.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
I've played too many tennis hours.
I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.