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

It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

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

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body.