Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.
People handle stress in different ways.
There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.
If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.