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

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I didn't change the world.

New York is a fantastic city.

Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle was so painful. But I am not a person who runs a lot, who spends a lot of energy on the court. If I am mentally OK, if nothing is bothering me and I want to play, then it is fine.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.