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I started tennis around age 2.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.