It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

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

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.