I'd like to have a family.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.