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 give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

Me, I don't need money.

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.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.