For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.