Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.
I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.