My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
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Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
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I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
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Seriously. I’m not playing to prove anything to journalists. I’m playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.
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Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots.
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Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I’m maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often.
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A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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I think it’s very hard for coaches to work with me. They’ll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they’re under a lot of pressure.
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My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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I’m at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don’t freak out…I don’t think we can call it a rivalry yet. There’s just to many great players around.
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I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.
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Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.
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Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.
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I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.
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