I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

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

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.