To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.
I started tennis around age 2.
I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
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.