I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity of confidence, I think things get a little tough. I knew I could be doing better than what I was doing. Even though I was ranked 5 or 4 or whatever it was, I wanted to get back to the level I thought I could play at.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

I was never a prodigy.

We get criticized for showing no personality, and then we get penalized when we do.