I'd Love To Open A Tennis School

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.

My Next Goal Is To Be Number One In The World.

People Always Ask About Young People Like Me Being Forced Into Things. I Play Tennis Because I Love It. I Think Russians Might Be Tougher Than Other People. When I Arrived In America I Was Young, But I Already Knew What I Wanted. I Think That When You Start From Nothing, When You Come From Nothing, It Makes You Hungry. I Am Proud Of Where I Came From And I Know What I Want. I Want To Win.

I Had So Many Outs In My Career. I Could Have Said, I Don’t Need This. I Have Money; I Have Fame; I Have Victories; I Have Grand Slams. But When Your Love For Something Is Bigger Than All Those Things, You Continue To Keep Getting Up In The Morning When It’s Freezing Outside, When You Know That It Can Be The Most Difficult Day, When Nothing Is Working, When You Feel Like The Belief Sometimes Isn’t There From The Outside World, And You Seem So Small. But You Can Achieve Great Things When You Don’t Listen To All Those Things.

As An Individual, I Take Every Match Seriously, No Matter Who I'm Going To Play.