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

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

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

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.