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Maria Sharapova

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“Right. So what I liked at the end of it was that after I read it and when you read out loud, it was I didn't want to change a single thing That was when I”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I called my team at the end of the third and I said, first of all, I have no voice. and Second of all, you have off tomorrow because I'm not coming.”
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“I had to take a couple days off after that because I was training in the mornings and then I'd go and I'd record six to eight hours for three days.”
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“In relationships. So there's a lot I share that I never thought a few years ago I would be able to. It's exciting. It's a little scary. It puts you in a vulnerable place, but I'm very looking forward to hearing what people think of it as well.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh no, I just hope that they continue listening to your work because when I started, I was so impressed by your interviews and the way you're able to get a lot out of people in a conversational form. And so keep listening. And yeah, and I'm so really excited about the opportunity that I had to share my story with other people and to share my journey. And sometimes we think that our story is not special and everyone's story is very special. And I've just been so excited about being able to put it on paper and for everyone to read it. So yeah, it's a big, I've always been a very personal and private individual. So it's sort of a big moment for me because I share a lot of frame of mind that I had as a young girl and as an athlete, as a person, as a daughter.”
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“No, it's a little, it's not as crunchy, it's a soft cake. It's a layered cake, but it's a soft cake. Yeah, I love cherry. Like when my grandmother makes cherry jam, I could eat that by the spoons. That's like a child in memory. Yeah, so I love sweets.”
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“I love we have this cake in Russia. It's called the Medavik. It's a honey cake. I could eat that every day for breakfast and dinner.”
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“A few random things. Like I always put my left shoe on before my right and not just a tennis shoe, but like any shoe. It's like I never when I'm in a store and I'm trying shoes and they hand me a right shoe. I'm like, I'm sorry. With like opening the box again myself, but I'd rather get the line. Strange look. Then for my match court outfits, I don't like to wear usually people like to wear the same outfits. So if they like did well in it. They'd wear it again I mean, they washed it, but then wear it again. Or maybe they don't wash it. I don't know. So, I do the opposite. I don't wear it again. I alternate.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love neutral color, so I love grays and darks and no browns I don't want to say black because When I say someone, a little girl asked me the other day, what's your favorite color? Because she wanted to draw something for me. And I was like, I was about to say black. And then I was like, oh no, she's not going to like. Time someone asked me my favorite color, I'm like, uh, yellow. Sounds so much happier than black.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've just always been fascinated by how someone can have an idea and draw some lines. And two years later, you have structure and you have placement and you have a floor plan and you have this maze. And it actually started from a young age because growing up in Florida, I was invited to for a few sleepovers and I would go to a sleepover at a rich at that time. It was like a rich person's home that had four or five bedrooms and I'd never seen a home that had four or five bedrooms. It's like, what are all these rooms for? Why is there like two dining rooms? Like, why isn't one enough? And that's when I became fascinated with floor plans and how something connects to another thing and like the usage of space. And then details like colors and materials. Yeah, it was just always really appealing.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. From Neutra to Frank Gary. I love the indoor and outdoor feel and I love when architects are able to bring. Nature into a home and make it feel like you're living outside but you're kind of in this cocoon environment. I don't know if that makes sense. Makes perfect sense.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know if I'm good at, but I don't know if I'd necessarily do a TED talk on it, but I have this passion for architecture. And yeah, I think I've always said that if I wasn't a tennis player, I would love to be an architect. I find it's like my happy place, like when I am able to drive around Palm Springs or drive around Tuscany and see like the differences and beams and windows. And I love studying that. And I just spent a few years building a home myself and that process. I feel if I had the time, which I don't have at the moment, I would just do for fun. So yeah, that would be something that I'm passionate about, but not many people know.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I went into these meetings and I just wanted to know why a product is dropped and why this material is used and why that material is being developed. And there's just so much incredible technology. I just, I love fashion. I love creativity. So I got to learn a lot about that. But you take great pride in the people that you work with and the decisions that I made that started with either friendship or a partnership where you understand the company and you know the people are the ones that have grown.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Back that looks, I was actually, I was walking around the other day, and someone came up to me and said, Wow, you look like you could be like a Nike billboard. And I was, you know, and I looked, I didn't know if that was, you know, funny or not, or they were making fun of what I was wearing. But I looked at her and I was like, yeah, and then so wow, you're Maria Sharapova, of course you are. They pay you to wear that. And I said, no, actually. You kind of grow a fondness of the people that you work with. There's so much that goes into a campaign, a product, and I love that step. I love knowing I went to the Nike campuses after my Harvard experience and I followed around, I went into meetings and I kind of shadowed. I was like a little ghost in all these meetings because I wanted to learn about like product development.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, why are in the bank you show up for a shoot and you do it and you smile and you leave and there you are. And that is, it's not that it's great that you have this company and this brand that has tracked you down and has seen you and has studied you and wants you to be a part of their brand. But I've always felt like the best decisions I've made are based on real partnerships, like real understanding of what a company of what myself wants from each other and why we want to work together. And I really believe that's one of the reasons I've had these partnerships for such a long time. I mean, one example is with Nike. I mean, it's so much more than just me wearing a swoosh on the court. Like I go into a store and I take pride in.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, at that age, it was a lot of decisions that my parents made, but I think from a business point of view, I've been able to be associated with many great brands. And there is a lot of opportunities, especially when I was young, to make what I like to call quick money.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like I'm very straight on about what I feel, and that's sometimes gotten me into trouble, you know, just based on maybe I should keep a few opinions to myself, but I like this idea of Tell me how you feel about things. Tell me straight up, don't go around. Maybe this word maybe is brutal. It's like neither here nor there. It's hard. It's definitely hard because from a young age, I could have made so many different decisions and that could have got me to different places.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cousins can have a proper education, and that feeling is incredible. But that's, and that's a feeling that, of course, money brings you. But I think the value, I mean, like I said, the relationship that I've had with my parents, you know, they're also very strong people and they will tell me if something, you know, if they see that something's going on or if my decisions are not correct and they're very real. And I surround myself with real people. I'm a very honest person myself. I think that's part of a Russian character. I say like it is.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lot of it is superficial, and a lot of it almost seems not human, like superhuman. But behind everything, there's a very human person. There's a very normal, there's a, I'm very much a simple human being that, I mean, I've been fortunate to make good money from my career, but those things are never things that make me the happiest. And I know that and I realize that the values that you have in your life are much smaller than that. And they bring so many more rewards than money could ever bring you. Of course, it's helpful in knowing that I, you know, it puts a huge smile on my face that I can support my grandparents and that I can buy them a home and that I know they're going to be comfortable and they can have their garden and grow their cucumbers and that.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I will say that I'm a fairly realistic person and I know I've been through a lot and so I face a lot of grief. I faced a lot of press. I faced a lot of success. I faced a lot of boardroom meetings. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot in my years. At the end of it, it's all”
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“It was just an experience. I don't think I would have ever felt. And maybe because I never wanted to feel that like huge responsibility that I did have this impact and that I always wanted to keep impacting and always be the right example. Maybe that's why I never quite, but I do think that subconsciously. I didn't want to give into that because maybe that would have added more pressure, you know, because as I said before, like my parents never made me feel that if I did or I didn't make it, that it would be all right to go back to where we started. Yeah, it was just, it was a very eye-opening moment.”
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“I think I noticed it because people, so many more people had the courage to speak to me. And which Usually people would come up to you and ask for an autograph or ask for a picture and it would just be what a few seconds of your time. But these were instances where people would come and have a proper conversation with you about how they're so they can't wait to see me back and they can't wait to see me play and what I mean to them. Was just different. It was a different communication, it was a different way of, you know, and every person helped me feel better. There's no doubt, but it was chefs coming from the kitchen and there were pilots coming from the cockpit”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I had so many moments and instances where I would come across people that would start a conversation with me and tell me kind of how I've influenced their kids or how they've seen me compete and that I'm admire my spirit so much and that they can't wait to see me back. And I don't, I never had that realization before, which sounds crazy. But I never really understood or I don't think I really understood maybe it was selfishly how much I impacted other people.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, one thing that I had to go through in the past 15 months was being away from my sport because of a suspension that I faced. And I went through this time period, obviously with a lot of questions and questions of whether I would return to sport or whether return to the sport that I've played. But during that same time, I also realized and I had a chance to stop and Really recognized how and what I've really done in my life and my career to inspire others and to, I've used the word inspire a lot because that's how I kind of”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the thing about rye bread is that I don't think that it's so good so that... Better than some other breads. It's not like sourdough I love, but I don't. I don't eat regular bread that much. So if I was eating a piece of sourdough, I'd probably have three pieces In between”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no. And so I drink that, I drink my coffee, and then breakfast, I usually make myself a smoothie or a green juice with spinach and kale and chia seeds and coconut water and all the other grains, cucumber, keelee. And I always have a piece of rye bread. And that's kind of the European, I love rye bread. So I start with that. And I either put some goat cheese on it or a piece of protein or avocado and some berries and that's it.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm so aware of my surroundings and I'm really aware of the choice, the kind of the inside choices that I make. Sort of this feeling from a young age I know how my mind can affect others or like my surrounding and myself included without having to say one word. Yeah. So I try to bring it back to my breath or sometimes changing those words completely, even though those are also not true, but they're much better. the negative outcome that you're putting out into the world.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, say, my coach has me, say I've studied some video analysis and he showed me a particular stroke that he wants me to work on or a particular movement. And this is incorrect. And he shows me an example of what he thinks I should do a little differently. And so I go on the practice court, I start doing that. And with repetition, I'm not getting the outcome that I wanted And so I plant the story that no, he's incorrect, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Or, you know, or that, no, actually, this is not, this doesn't feel right, this doesn't feel natural. I'm not going to feel natural. If it doesn't feel natural now, it's not going to feel natural in a competitive state of mind. And all those things are completely not true. Those are all things that I'm putting in my brain.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do. I mean, the one thing that I've, and I don't really know where I got it from, but I. One thing that I do, I realize that our thoughts are so spread out and that they go in so many different directions. And when I noticed that my mind goes to places that are so unnecessary, when I create my own stories that are so far from the truth, I bring it back to the center of my breath. So I do think about just breathing. And that's not like me sitting in a chair and having thoughts or saying, okay, now I'm going to meditate for 10 minutes. That's just me, whether it's on a practice court and things are not going well or I'm making so many errors. And all of a sudden I just create a story that is so far from the truth or the reality.”
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“I like when people, I like to hear about people's experience of life-changing experience. And I think that's what really interests me is how something can affect a person, whether it's reading a book, whether it's hearing a mantra, whether it's meditating. So that's why I like listening to people speak about their practices or how it's influenced their life or what they were going through that required that. Yeah, I love learning from people's experiences, so I think that's one of the reasons I listened to his.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of any type. It's interesting. Someone asked me the other I don't, but I really feel like I do because I listen to so many people speak about meditating. I feel like I do think for a second. I almost said yes. And I was like, no, no, no. Actually. I don't meditate, but I listen to people speak about it. And I have a little bit. I've tried, I've done it and I enjoy it. Some of it feels a little cultish to me.”
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“Well, a good friend of mine is Lewis Howe, so I listened to his. I've listened to yours a bunch in the past six or eight months, I would say, to Dan Harris's, I listened to. Fashion one, yeah, a little bit of everything.”
2017-08-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #261: Mental Performance, Work-Life Balance, and the Rise to the Top - Maria Sharapova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do Nespres Simple. I think it's all for me, it's all about the phone, so I have to have the right phone. So, I do that, and then I usually when I'm getting ready, I turn on a podcast. And I listen, kind of depends on the mood I'm in, whether it's about health or I want to hear about someone's life or someone's experiences. I'll turn that on so by the time I get my stuff ready for the whole day of practices and kind of brushing my teeth. I listen to other people share.”
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“It proved to be very difficult. It was very funny. So you're taking conferences. So I do that work for the first hour, hour and a half with a cup of coffee. That I have to have in the morning with lactose free milk.”
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“Up, so I'll do one of those. I'll answer a few emails that's coming in from Europe of a candy brand, so we have to make a lot of decisions on that on a daily basis.”
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“So I'm in training right now, and I'm getting ready to play all these hardcore tournaments, and so for the last weeks I've been healing an injury now that that's all good. I'm back into the routine of just intense training every day. And so I started a particular time in the morning. I like to wake up early. I like to go to bed early. So I wake up early. I like to get about eight to nine hours of sleep. Sleep has been a big part of I just feel like the makeup of how I feel of the energy level that I have. Yeah, I wake up at 6.30. I usually have to be ready by 9 for practice. So I use that time and it kind of depends. Right now I have a few, I have a couple of businesses that I'm a part of. So a lot of like the first hour, hour and a half, I spend maybe on a conference call because that's usually, you know, afternoon time in year.”
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“And some, I do think that some people are okay with that feeling, but I am not. And that's my choice. And it all comes down to choice. I think we all have them. But as long as I'm able to say, and I do believe that it's for other people as well, as long as we commit to that choice and not regret that choice or don't allow ourselves to regret that choice, then that's when it's the right formula for us.”
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“I know that I'm not there for my friend. It's a big day, it's a big event. And yet I have this career in front of me that is taking priority. And I could say, you know, I could give many examples of my personal life as well. But those are choices. Those are your choices. And those are, I think, Don't think that there is a 50 50 balance. That hasn't worked for me. I've always felt that I've had to let something go or if I sacrifice something if I'm just 50-50, I'm never 100%. And I want to be 100%. You know, when I train, when you train hours on end, when you give so much of your body and your mind to this one profession, and whether it's me playing tennis, whether it's something else, I don't want to come into one of the biggest moments and biggest stages of my career and feel that I didn't do everything that I could.”
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“I definitely think that it's challenged me. It's challenged the way that I think, but I do read the one thing a few years ago. I carry color and Really, it kind of hit home for me. When you saying that when you wake up in the morning, you put your focus on this one thing of what you want to accomplish during the day, which seems like a no-brainer, right? It seems like, okay, that's the way that everyone should do it. But it's so much more complicated than that. And for example, when I leave for a trip and, you know, one of my good friends is getting married in August and I'm going to be either in Cincinnati or Toronto competing at a tournament.”
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“It's hard. It's definitely hard. No, my friends are out there and I want to be out there and I want to be enjoying the sunset. But I know what I'm going out there for. I know that come a time when I have five days off, I'll be able to take my friends on vacation and treat them to a beautiful time. But now is my time to work. And so I like leaving those things behind because it makes me feel that there is a prize at the end of it. There is something that I'm. That makes my job different. I don't know if that makes sense. It makes perfect.”
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“Makes perfect sense. It makes me feel that I'm going there for a reason. I'm not going there to be comfortable. I'm not going to be there in my environment. I'm there to do my job and I will come back home and I'll have everything, I'll have my friends and I'll have be around my family. But when I leave, it's like there's so many times when I've left a plane and it's the middle of the day in Manhattan Beach.”
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“A Moroccan scent. I don't exactly know what's in it, but it smells like I'm in Morocco, even though I've never been there. Another one that's on my list.”
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“I am. I mean, you should see the room that I'm in right now. I have all these oils and all these candles. And yeah, well, for me, it's about like this feeling of being in your home environment. And comfort, and that's something that you don't get when you travel so much. So when I do, it's kind of my way of feeling. Like every morning I turn on my incense and my candles and I have my coffee and just the smell. It's like the smell of being home.”
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“Yes, there are a lot of terms. Yeah, I like doing all different types of planks where just floor planks and extending your arms or extending your legs one at a time out. So it's like an element of surprise and imbalance or it's not just static.”
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“Oh wow I love using the TRX band and did that yellow And putting it up Hanging it and putting my feet in it and then doing a plank.”
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“Not doing any RDLs, but the little things that take time and that look so simple and that are boring are the ones that really not only do you keep your focus, but you keep your strength and the balance And I work on my core a lot because I do believe that that's, I mean, it is the center of your body in a control so much of it puts the body together. It's like the glue.”
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“Where I really work my ankles and my knees make sure those are all aligned and not wobbling too much when just gaining the confidence. And sometimes they seem like the most simple exercises. You know, if you take a picture of them or a video of them and they're the ones that you don't want to post because someone will think you're not doing anything, you know what I mean?”
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“So I grew very fast and that's something that I speak about in the book as well because no one in my family is tall. I'm the tallest one. And I talk about the struggles that I had as a teenager during that period of time. And my father says it was, I grew because I had this will to grow and that I needed it from my sport and that it was everyone's wish, including mine, that I would be taller so I could be surf from a higher angle or that I could be more powerful. But with that comes, you know, you're a little bit less explosive. You're not as mobile. You're a little stiffer. And I think movement in tennis, you have so many movements that are just back and forth and changing direction. And so I work a lot on the joints. I work a lot on balance, balance of the core, and then balance on little unstabilizing platforms.”
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“Yeah, and a lot of it is not even about the weight that you have or the resistance of the theraband, but it's the repetition that you do. So the feeling that you have in the back of your scapula or in the tendons of your shoulder is that it starts burning. That's when you really know that the little muscles in between the big ones are firing. And the more consistent you are with that, the bigger chance of you getting healthy and also preventing something else to happen because your body always compensates So if I have an injury in one place, your body's, the brain is so smart that it starts using other parts of the body. And all of a sudden you feel it somewhere else. Yeah. So the consistency of following through and really keeping at it is for me is always the most challenging thing. And I see people give up on it.”
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“Like that you use the word prevention because a lot of the makeup of an athlete is about prevention. And we do so much to try to prevent injuries and we don't always succeed. But a big part of the little exercises and the tedious things and the repetition is that. I would say the biggest component of because I went through shoulder surgery is the consistency of keeping up with the exercises. There's a lot of exercises out there and they're all great exercises, but it's very rare that you keep doing them. And I start every morning after my shoulder surgery before every practice. I have a routine with a rubber band. That's not a rare routine for a tennis player. We all warm up. We do about a 30-minute warm-up before we even. There are a lot of little scapula exercises that you do.”
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