For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.