It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

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

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.