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.

I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.