You know, I don't only play for the record books.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

For me, I'm in the driver's seat; I'm No. 1 in the world. I've won the last couple of meetings, and I've won the big tournaments lately. Whoever comes, I'll try to beat him. But it's almost up to me to decide who's my rival, isn't it?

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.