I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.