Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.
Tennis has given me soul.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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!
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.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.
Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.
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