You control your own wins and losses.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

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.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

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.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

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