I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

I'm not a materialistic person.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.

It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.