In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.
I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.
It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.
I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.
Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.
