I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I was always very interested in science and I knew that for me science was a better long-term career than tennis.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

I used to get nervous you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually because now I enjoy it. I see that they you know respect me immensely and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis not let anything get to me like crazy questions. But I'm tough let me tell you tough as nails.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

First of all let me say 1:15 in the morning for 20 000 people to still be here I wasn't the winner tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

My mom she's from Ireland coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.