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“I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.”
“I love the region around Lake Geneva. The landscape is beautiful, very peaceful, and such a nice place to relax and spend time outdoors. It's always a pleasure to come back home.”
“As far as fitness is concerned, you have to enjoy it, do good exercises, and integrate them into your tennis practice. The preparation for the season is as crucial as doing good blocks when switching from one surface to another.”
“I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.”
“My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.”
“My game takes time to adapt to grass; grass is a little bit different.”
“You can always learn when you lose.”
“When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn't, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight - maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn't practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn't easy to feel that way.”
“Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.”
“I never start anything 'I want to be No. 1. I want to win Grand Slam.' For me, no. It's always step by step. The only thing I want to do, it's to push the limit.”
“As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.”
“I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'”
“To say that I won the French Open, it's something completely crazy.”
“Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.”
“I enjoy Indian cuisine a lot. It's delicious.”
“The ranking never lies.”
“I won a grand slam with an Audemars Piguet on my wrist, so I feel it is a great match.”
“My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.”
“Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.”
“There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.”