I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.