You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
So, yeah, Dad was right. Tennis was the way to go.
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
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!
Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.
As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
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