I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.