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In giving my life to tennis, tennis gave me a life, i'll miss it every day, I'll miss the training and my daily routine.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Looking back now, I realize that tennis has been my mountain. My path has been filled with valleys and detours, but the views from its peak were incredible, after 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain, to compete on a different type of terrain.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
After two and a half hours that was the right call for me. I think both of us felt it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I mean, it was certainly no panic sessions after last week.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I have sat in this chair a few times where I havent finished the match or I feel like I have a long road ahead of me in terms of recovery with the body, so, yeah, thats a positive, but theres definitely the repetition, just the feeling of being in a match. Its very different.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
She swung away. She played extremely aggressive. I was playing a little bit too defensively for what I should have been doing. She was there to win it and she did.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The transition from clay to grass has been tougher for me as I've gotten older, that's just a matter of training, getting through the soreness in the first week or so.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
On paper it's a step in the right direction. It's tough to just assess a single tournament. I have to put a lot of things in perspective for the last-four, five weeks since the clay season, coming into this part of the year, I was losing a few first-round matches, matches that I wanted to be winning. But to have had the victories I have had... obviously moving a step in the right direction. But today was not one of those steps.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I just didn't feel free, and I felt there was a lot of force behind all the shots and that it wasn't coming natural to me — didn't have the rhythm.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I would love to be there( on centre court) again, of course. And from a draw perspective, it's an anticipated seeding match if those two seeds went through, it's a match that maybe. people anticipated.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I don't expect extremely long rallies against an opponent like that, but sometimes it's not what it takes to win a match, and I think you have to kind of take care of your service games, and I have to serve better than I have been and take care of the return.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I really dug deep but sometimes you need to go through these types of matches where things don't go the way you want, happy the way I came back in the third set.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
That's why I still continue to do this, because I have that passion of figuring things out and getting it done, whether it's a tough day, or whether it's a great day.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
You are very much in the moment, your team just hands you over, literally on to the stage, onto your universe for the next hour, hour-and-a-half, two or three, and you have to find a way to deliver.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I haven't set a time table for Maria Sharapova, but I've always said that I would do it on my own terms... i'd love to play in another Olympics, but I don't know if that will happen and at this point in 2018, I don't really want to know. I want to keep going and I want to keep working and see where that takes me.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When you've experienced grand slam victories, it's absolutely natural to have that goal in your mind, it would be silly for me to say my goal for this year is to win a lower-tier tournament because I strive to be on the big stage and to win on the big stage.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Yes, you're rusty and you're trying to get the rhythm again, it's my first match in a while, but this is what I've done for so long, and when you're in the moment, you try to block everything out, and you compete. And I'm a competitor by nature, even when things are not working. That's what I do.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I was given this medicine by my doctor for several health issues that I was having back in 2006. I was getting sick a lot. I was getting the flu every couple of months. I had irregular EKG results as well as indications of diabetes with a family history of diabetes, (Mildronate) made me healthy, and that's why I continued to take it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I made a huge mistake. I know that with this I face consequences and I don't want to end my career this way.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I made a huge mistake. I let my fans down and I let the sport down, i take full responsibility for it.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think if you're serving maybe 180( kph) against somebody else compared to Serena, that's an ace, against Serena, as we all know, the return is one of her great strengths. She's very explosive.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's obviously always frustrating, i mean, it's motivating. It's motivating because she's at a different level. She makes you go back to the drawing board, not just for me, but for many other players. She makes you work. That's inspiring.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You're always trying to improve, i got Maria Sharapova into the quarterfinal of a grand slam.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If I lose every match I'm still happy to be out there doing what I love, i just want to play as much as possible. I kind of almost want to play catch-up.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since Richel Hogenkamp was playing on my court, I like to see what the conditions are, how the court is playing, i think we're quite professional in what we do.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm still a competitor no matter what, i'm going to do everything in order to go out and give it my best, and I think I did the best I could. Today it wasn't enough, because my opponent had a different gear than I did.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I felt like I had small openings, i just wasn't able to keep that level up today. She was able to do that for a longer period of time.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I mean, unless I'm really in my coffin, I'm going to be out there.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I totally understand that, you know, everyone usually does post interviews and answers a few questions to the crowd, it's absolutely normal. I don't -- I'm not making any excuses or -- but I've got to do what I have to do.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't feel like I actually have to hold the trophy at the end of this, i feel like I'm already holding the trophy. And I've never felt this way.' I feel like just being here is a huge win, not only for me but for so many people. And it's a wonderful feeling.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think The Russian's always a tough player to play against because The Russian's really solid, the Russian's quite powerful. I know The Russian's gone through a few injuries in The Russian career. Having that start-stop type of career is never easy, because sometimes you don't feel like you can actually get a routine and a groove.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I really dislike doing that, but it's quite educational, at least that's what the coaches tell me.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
You can't be overly negative; you can't be overly positive, i wanted to start off well. I thought I did many things well. But I'm not going into next week throwing flowers at myself or anything.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I faced Svitolina last year in Beijing for the first time. She's a young girl that's already in the top 30 with a tremendous amount of potential and someone that you'll be seeing in the top very soon, she has a good game, an all-around player. It'll be a tough matchup, but one that I look forward to actually.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If I wanted to I could make it tougher on myself. I don't think that's really the goal, i know how to get ready for grand slams. I'm certainly not thinking about that I need that type of match. My goal is to go out there and do the right things.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's only the first match of the season. It only gets tougher from here. I have a bit of a different opponent if Suarez Navarro wins the next one, we'll see how that goes. Hopefully I continue to improve and take it a step further this year.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I really just kind of got away from it all. I didn't check anything. It was nice not to have to check any scores or who you're playing against, but when you do come to a tournament, of course you're very well aware of what's going on, especially in the tournament.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It certainly felt good to start, after not playing a match for a couple of months. Despite all the training, it's such a different feeling to go out on the court and play in front of a crowd, you always want to apply the things you work on little by little into match atmosphere. I think I did that quite well. I wanted to start off sharp and try to do the right things.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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