I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

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 was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.