I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

There have been great champions in every generation.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

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.

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.