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  1. “Well, you know, I want to be called to be continued. And I got shut down really fast. They're like, that's basically telling everyone to get a new book. I was like, wait a second, that's been my dream ever since, because when I would see memoirs written by or autobiographies written by, you know, it's a younger individuals, I would think to myself, do they really think that their life is over and that this is all they have to tell So, of course, when you say that, you have a book come out, a memoir, when you're 30 years old. And I was just so like I had this vision of calling it to be continued. But they're like, that, you have to explain what's inside the pages and not what's coming out next. And it's like, no.”

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  2. “Because a big part of my story is the other people that influence my life. And because I started my life at such a young age, I started this crazy move and this crazy profession. And these people were so influential and they're very much a part of this, part of the reason that I'm here.”

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  3. “And I knew and I thought of these people, I thought of my father, and I thought of the person that he would give the time to, that he would open up to, that he would share with That I think was one of the biggest reasons that I, I mean, he and my father spent over a week together just talking and talking and it wasn't even life, life talking, stories. I mean, my father was able to tell stories that I read in the book and I'm, I was like, wow, wow. I was so young that I don't remember it. And yeah, he was We spent so many weeks together. I love the way that he worked. I loved the questions that he would. I just love the simplicity of him as a human being.”

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  4. “That's my guy. I knew that he knew where he was going. He took the train. He had a shoulder bag on. And he was just looking around. He was simple. And our conversation was very simple. It wasn't anything over the top. And I knew, but I knew from just meeting with him for 30 minutes that he was a genius in his literature. And that's where his genius has come out. It's on paper. And I got that sense from the beginning. And another reason I chose to work with him was because throughout my life, I have been influenced by a lot of male figures. So my father, my coaches, Nick Bolitary, Robert Lansdorp, my manager. And I wanted Rich to sit down with these people. I wanted him to spend time with these people, to really get an understanding of the characters that were part of my life that made me who I am today.”

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  5. “When I read Jerry Weintraub's book somewhere on holiday during my off season in November, probably I'd say seven years ago, I said to myself that if I ever write a book that Rich Cohen would help me do it. And when I made the decision to write this book, I had my agent find out who Rich Cohen was, where he lived, what he did, if he had. Time to do this. I didn't even know if this was a possibility. So I met him and this was so fascinating because I met with three writers and I met him at this swinky New York hotel and And he walked in there just looking like he did not belong. And I knew exactly that this was my guy.”

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  6. “I think that everyone's story is special and everyone gets to where they are in their own certain unique ways. And I, no, I just don't go about my life thinking that I know that it's very different and that it's maybe one in a million and that my family took a chance, but I don't walk around thinking, wow, this is brilliant. And so I walked out of that meeting thinking, wow, I might be a writer. I might write a book. And so I wrote a few paragraphs myself and In just a few weeks time we got this offer with no questions asked. No, is this going to be gossip? No, who's going to be part of the story? I signed with Sarah Christon at FSG and she wanted to hear my story. And I don't know it just, it inspired me. It made me feel like there was a lot of inspirational work that I could put on.”

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  7. “My personal life, about all the experiences that I've had in the 30 years that I've lived. And I wrote a few paragraphs myself and she was very, it was interesting because I left the meeting feeling like, wow, I'm really going to write a book, aren't I? And it wasn't anything that she said, it was just the conversation in her asking me about my story. And as I started speaking about it, her eyes lit up and she said it was incredible. And I looked at her like, huh, really? Because I don't know. I always...”

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  8. “Who would ever do that? But you know what? Two and a half years ago, I had a meeting with an agent and I sat down and she came into the meeting talking to me about a potential memoir. And it was so far. It was just an idea that she had. It was not really even a vision or a plan. She just wanted to talk to me about it. She knew a little bit about my story about moving to America. She didn't know everything. And we had this conversation and I came into the meeting, actually just taking the meeting because I wanted to be nice. And I never thought that I was ready to write a book and to share so much of what I share in this book about moving to America, about facing my rivals.”

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  9. “When it's really compact, you know, keeping your elbow close to your body Instead of having this huge loop and really zoning it on the ball, I always see people take their eyes off the ball.”

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  10. “So I think the basic techniques, and even when you're young, that's the main thing. Those are your fundamentals. So if you start, if you need to go right and you're going to Big Sur, but you turn left from the beginning, you're done. And that's how I've always seen tennis is the mechanical mechanics are important and they need to be easy. Like sometimes I see strokes that are so complicated and that are so the backswing is huge and the spins are crazy. And I think it definitely can be much more simple. And it's not about power. It's not about hitting a winner. A lot of it is controlled power. Like, I mean, I play a very aggressive and powerful game. But when I play the best is when it's controlled power. When I don't want it to be power, but when my strokes are”

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  11. “Exact thing, and you have the same technique, but it goes in. And one day you're cursing at yourself and you're upset, and the next day you think you just want a grand slam. It's a very thin line. There's no doubt about it. But I do, I think there's a lot of attitude that needs to calm down. When I watch junior tournaments, when I watch body language, when I see facial expressions and looking over on the sides of the court. And a lot of it is because tennis is so emotional and it's so in the moment. Every single point counts and you want it to count. And of course it shows how passionate you are about it. the attitude is a very important part of it being a tennis player.”

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  12. “Think they spent a lot of time on the outcome. I think that a lot goes into The result, is it in? Is it out? Is it long? Is it in the net? And it all of a sudden becomes your focus. It becomes your focus point. That's why I mentioned like watching the ball as long as you can, because it takes your mind away from thinking if the ball is going to be in or out. And therefore, I always feel that your attitude and your body language. I've always thought that that's a very big part of the game itself and how you're able to transfer this body language from a mistake into a winner that you hit in just the next ball or in a few balls. And sometimes it's all it takes because tennis is a matter of really millimeters. You could do the same thing and the ball just the wind takes it and it's long. And if you're playing in a condition where it's not windy, you do the same.”

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  13. “Yeah, as a right hander or. If it's a left hander, then keeping your right arm up. Yeah, I would say those are the two top things. By the way, I am the worst at coaching or I.”

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  14. “I mean, the one thing that I notice a lot with people that are just starting to play tennis and it's not just about the serve, but it's in all strokes, is that they take their eye off the ball in order to see the result or where the ball is going, which is a big mistake in the beginning, especially because the more eye contact you have with the ball, the more the strings of your racket are going to be on the ball itself. So seeing the lines of the ball visualizing that will really help you kind of maintaining like when you lift your arm up to hit a serve, sometimes we want to bring it right back down as we make contact. So keeping that left arm up is something that I focus on when I make a few errors.”

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  15. “Tennis momentum changes so much, just like in life one second, everything's positive, then you get bad news and someone is leaving the company or someone's not going to work anymore or someone's not healthy. And all of a sudden you go from a great day to wow. It's just a way for me. I see those strings and I see my fingers playing with those strings. And I just, I think of being level-headed and being not overly excited, not down, but being in this like medium frame of mind.”

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  16. “I think it's more of like of putting my eyes onto my strings and having this repetition that it doesn't matter if I won the point or lost the point, but I'm just on this level that I'm on this path, that I'm on this like river that is going to get to where it's going no matter what rock is in the way, no matter what storm is on the way, the water is ultimately going to go down the river. That, and maybe prep talk is not the right way. I don't always, I mean, I do think that our mind is always working and always saying things, and you're not always so conscious of it. But it's this routine that I have. And I think it's kind of a safe place for me because in a match it can be an hour match or it can be a three-hour match.”

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  17. “I noticed this crazy change, which I don't really notice as much. And it was amazing that it just came, this is a question that you just phrased, but it was the last match that I had played. But it happens a lot. So I do take my time in between and my service games. I walk to the baseline. I move my strings around. I do a little pep talk and it's very automatic. I wouldn't say there's something crazy or something.”

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  18. “The instance I remember being down a break point and the automatically there was something in my body language where my mind, just the repetition of what I was saying to myself, it just triggered my body. I became more aggressive. I stepped into the court. I took her second serve and I hit a winner. And from that point, it just changed in the end of the match. I was up, I believe it was 2-0 or something. I tore a muscle in my hip, but I had to I had to give her the match.”

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  19. “And I came into the match being a little bit upset. I was down. And just for other reasons. I knew the framework that I had in my mind was that it was something along the words of I can't. I can't, I can't. I'm not able to. I don't feel well. I'm not there. My mind is not present. The second that I changed that and I changed it to I will and I kept saying to myself, I will win the match and I will win the match. It was like.”

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  20. “That's the unique part of it every day is different, every match is different. You might be confident, you might be ready, you might be healthy, but you never know what's going to happen. And I'm someone that loves certainty. I love certainty in my life. And I love, I do enjoy having a plan, but that's not realistic, you know, and there's so much uncertainty in what I do. So I know that I can prepare my best. I know that I can prepare my body. I can prepare my mind. But in any situation that I'm in, it's always different and you have to react to it differently. And it doesn't always go according to plan. And I don't always find myself being positive. But something that I noticed in my mind was actually in the last match I played and it was in a match where I got injured at the end of it and had to actually I was up in the third set in Rome.”

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  21. “There, I wouldn't say there is a pattern because every what's great about the sport that I play and the situations that I'm in is that they're all very unique and that's what makes it so exciting to do this after so many years and after being this child prodigy and when I think of like the motivation that I'm able to have till this day and until that fire is burning, I'll always keep playing.”

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  22. “By no means does that come with guarantees that you're not going to be disappointed at the end of it or that they're going to want something from you that you weren't expecting? You do in order to have, you have to put yourself in a position to find out And what's the worst thing that can happen from it? You don't reply or you don't answer or you don't get back to them? Okay.”

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  23. “And I got out of my comfort zone and I followed up with them and we still keep in touch about business and projects and things like that. So it was a very interesting experience personally for me.”

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  24. “CEOs of companies. They have three or four kids. They travel all over the place. And here I am, a 30-year-old athlete, but there's so much respect in that room because we're all trying to learn and to grow. And so when you ask me, who are the people that you want to meet with or speak to or have a coffee with, I always think of that. the people that I choose to be with are the people that I want to learn from and that I want to have a conversation with and not just about what they bought at the flea market or what they're going to how they're how they like their coffee but it's about the world and it's about education it's about people and and it's not about right or wrong i don't always have conversation because i want to know what makes someone perfect and not i i like to hear opinions and i got out of that experience in boston and i no i felt like i grew i felt like i stepped up”

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  25. “Of Microsoft, of all these incredible brands. And I was by far the youngest and probably the silliest and the least knowledgeable one in the room. But just by being with them, just by sitting with them, just by sitting with them at dinner, by asking them questions, by feeling a little bit uncomfortable, I felt like at the end of those three weeks I grew and I grew. And it wasn't that, I mean, there were definitely things that I learned that I'm applying and that I wanted to apply in my business. But the biggest thing I got out of it was that I grew as a person. I became familiar in a very unfamiliar territory. I still keep in touch with people in the classes. We have completely different lives.”

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  26. “Is incredible. But I always think that as a human being and from a perspective of the mind and growth, and intellectually, when you're put in a situation where you're unfamiliar with people and you're unfamiliar with their stories or who they are and you have to ask questions and to get that out, it makes you a much more interesting person. And so last year I put myself in this position where I had all this time off and it was during the summer and I signed up for these two business courses in Boston and Harvard Business School and I was one out of the 40 students I believe in each of these courses and I stayed on campus and these were individuals who were CEOs and COOs of companies, of airlines.”

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  27. “How do I choose? I think it's about, I love meeting people and I love having conversation and I love being inspired. And you can get so much out of a conversation or about by exposing yourself to being in an unfamiliar territory. So with people, and I'll give you a big kind of an example that was I felt like it was important because I'm very much, I'm always around the same people so I have my team, which is my coach and my fitness coach and my trainer. And we travel. I see them more than my family. We travel probably 260 days out of the year together, breakfast, lunch, dinners, practice, training. We know so much of each other. And then you have a manager and then you come home and then you have your friends. So I'm always surrounded by people that I know and that I trust and that I love, which”

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  28. “The walk to the tunnel and the walk to a press conference and the walk back in the hotel room, it's a very lonely journey. And That it's a difficult. You're in your mind a lot, and you're thinking a lot. So when you have voices next to you that are the right voices, then it's so helpful. But I know how hard it is to find. But I do believe that that is a big part of my success.”

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  29. “When I watch this incredible acting by someone, it inspires me to be an actor. It's like there's moments of this that happens as an athlete. You surround yourself with people's opinions or choices or money and wealth. And it's such an easy distraction And I surrounded myself with good people. And I, the friends that I have today were my friends when I was a young girl that my manager has managed me since I was 11 years old. My mom is still very much my best friend and another really good friend of mine I met when I was 11 years old as well. So I have this fondness of developing this real connections with people. And I think it was so helpful for me as a young girl because I competed in front of thousands of people.”

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  30. “I think it was surrounding myself with good minds and good people that had my best interest. And it's so easy to say those words, but I know how difficult it is to find those people. And even harder now, nowadays than it was. And I saw it in so many different examples of other tennis players and of their success and their paths after that and the people that you all of a sudden associate yourself with. I think as an individual, it's very easy to be affected by the voices that are next to you because we listen to that and we process that information and all of a sudden we won't say we want to be like them, but we interpret it in our way. But like when I read a funny book, all of a sudden I feel like I'm a comedian or”

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  31. “And it really came overnight. And that sense of wow, everyone all of a sudden wants something. Everyone wants something that you have. Everyone wants to be a part of your success. I didn't like that feeling. You know, I love the feeling of being in a position of showcasing what I could do with my tennis racket, but that feeling of everyone wanting a piece of that and the feeling of your opponents all of a sudden all of a sudden feeling like just by beating her, they're not just winning a quarter final of a final of a match, but they're winning so much more. It made me feel like I needed to kind of put myself in a bubble to concentrate, to focus that it was going to be that much harder, that much more difficult. And I did. And I don't know if I could have done it another way.”

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  32. “I definitely remember, I remember the moment, and it was just a few matches before I won Wimbledon where I was sitting down with my coach and all of a sudden, I think it was before the semi-finals of that tournament and all these tourists who had gotten credentials, they seem like tourists. I didn't know who they were. Maybe they would have maybe they weren't. Maybe they were important agents or sponsors. But at the time, they just seem like tourists that I wanted a picture with me.”

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  33. “I think from a very young age because of sort of the process that I went through and the success that I Earned from a young age and winning a major and a grand slam at such a young age and because it became so unexpected I went from being someone that was scouted to being someone that everyone had analyzed and knew about and wanted to know more of. I created this I definitely put on these horse blinders because if I had not My mind would have been everywhere. And I think it would have been so easy to be distracted in those moments and situations and be pooled in different directions, which it's a slippery slope. Very dangerous, and as a young girl, it could have been a disaster, to say the least.”

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  34. “Can open up a different opportunity from that point of view, then you're turning a no into something that's Brought you to a better place.”

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  35. “Right. So rejection, it wasn't. There was never because I always had, I mean, I always was following and kind of next to my father and seeing the decisions that he would make. I was only a kid. And even when I won Wimbledon, I was only 17 years old. You're still a kid and you're still following the guidance. And I'd win a match following that and I'd call I'd win a tournament and I would go shopping in a store and I would call my mom because there was something like quite pricey. And I didn't know if I could buy it. So I was still asking permission, even though I had earned that money, if I could purchase a piece of jewelry or shoes or whatever it was at the time that I wanted. So I was always watching and observing and they never, rejection. I mean, you're, of course, when someone says no to you, it's easy to say, oh, yes, I was rejected.”

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  36. “So there are many situations whether it was a coaching opportunity or whether it was receiving money from an agency. He had this ability to say no to the things that seemed that like they made sense, like the easy way out, because he believed that later he'd have a better opportunity to say yes to bigger and greater things.”

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  37. “I don't, I mean, it's a very tough word to believe. I think one of the reasons is because I saw in many different scenarios where my father would say no because he would open up an opportunity to say yes”

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  38. “He travelled with me to every single tournament and after I won my third grand slam. Those very mutually he decided to stop. And now he's on a permanent vacation and he thinks he's training for the senior Olympics and he loves to ski and hike and do all those great things. And I'm so happy and it makes me just incredibly grateful that I can support that. that I can do that for my mom, that I can do that for my dad, that for my extended family. And they're the reason why I'm able to do that.”

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  39. “Whatever they did, they never made me feel like it was. And I think that's one of the reasons why I never felt the pressure of having to win things or having to earn money. I knew that I didn't know how much money I could earn. I was never really interested in that. I didn't know anything that would come with being successful tennis player. And you never really do. And I think that's one of the great things in life is that you don't know and that it's an experience and it's for you to experience and for you to acknowledge and for you to learn from it. And whether you want to take it or not, that's up to you. It's in your own hands. But the fact that they gave me this opportunity to create a life for myself is incredible. And now my father remained kind of the leader and the coach of my tennis until I was 21 years old.”

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  40. “Just didn't feel like we were doing the wrong thing. I felt like I was on this path that I was meant to be on. And I didn't feel lonely. I didn't feel sad. It was a lonely time because I look at that and of course I was an outcast. But when you're On a mission to do something or be something. It's not so much about success, I think it's just we always think of like having a vision. And of course, we have goals and we plant it in our minds. But I never remember one time where my father told me that I had to win Wimbledon or that I had to win the US Open. He never made me feel like if I Didn't that the world would end? And I always remember thinking that if this doesn't work out, we would go to Russia and that's absolutely fine because I felt like I had a completely normal childhood when I was living there.”

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  41. “Any one of those was at the time. And so I was just a stranger. I was sort of in my own little bubble from a very young age. And I look back in those moments and I've gotten that question a lot, like, how did you feel? Did you feel lonely? And one of the other things was that I didn't go to America with my mother because she didn't have a visa. So I spent the first two years in America without seeing my mom at all. I look back at that time and I There's nothing about it that it's sad. Obviously it was very sad to not have that support and not have your mother cut your bangs instead of your father or him by you shoes that are so ugly and you can't know how to tell him, but he doesn't have enough money to buy you a better pair so you just keep your mouth shut.”

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  42. “Not that I didn't have, it felt like I had a lot in common because we were all there to play tennis. But the mission that I was on, and I felt like I was, was very different. And it wasn't that I had to be a champion or I didn't have to be a champion. It was that I was learning and I was growing to be a better tennis player. And I didn't know where that would take me, but I knew that in order to get there I had to wake up at 6 a.m. and I had to practice through the day and then I would take a 30 minute nap from 12 to 12 30 and at 1 p.m. I'd be back playing matches and sets until four or five and then I have a little bit of homework and then I have to do it again. And so there was a lot of other interest that the girls had and then posters and glitter and pictures and David Hasselhoff, Janet Jackson. And I had no clue.”

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  43. “I don't even know where to look what you die is coming out next. But back then, I just remember that giant jar of animal crackers that I believe a friend from the academy gave me for my birthday. And that's the only thing I had in that locker and I didn't have many belongings. I didn't have a lot of outfits or skirts that the girls had. I didn't really have anyone to do my hair or braid my hair. You know, my father would sit me down and on a chair and just cut my bang straight across and they never look great. Obviously you didn't know what he was doing. And so I was always a little off. I didn't speak English in the beginning. I was learning through just speaking with all the other kids because they talk so much you just pick it up and you learn. And it just made me feel very much alone. It was.”

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  44. “I remember coming back from practice and my little locker would be open. And the only thing I had in that locker was this giant jar of little animal crackers.”

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  45. “I very much felt like I was an outcast from the beginning, and one of the reasons was because I had arrived in America with my father and our story just didn't make sense to anyone, so from the very beginning everyone just assumed we were crazy, which if I look at that now, yes, we were absolutely my parents' decision was crazy. The fact that we come to America and you have the seven-year-old girl with a dream to become a tennis player, that's never going to work out. And so I sense that. I felt that. I felt that I was different. I always felt like I was there on a different mission. And because I was one of the youngest ones, I never had the same interest as the other girls. And I always knew that my interest and my passion was very different to theirs. And while I boarded at the academy, I”

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  46. “No escape until someone just takes you out on a golf cart and away you go. And so when I'm home, whether it's in Florida or California, I just love the stillness and the quietness of just being on my own. I don't have a court, but I go to a country club and I practice on a corner or I train at a private court as well and just have your peace and quiet a little bit just to have your mind only see your team and the members of your team and then do your work and lead. But being there for that period of time was brought back so many memories.”

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  47. “It's really rare to see that. And I go there for the same reasons. I go there because of the atmosphere, because you see other athletes, and it doesn't matter if they're in college, if they're young, if they're not going to make it. Just to be in the environment of everyone training with a purpose, it makes you better. It makes you, I love playing in front of, you know, a little crowd would kind of get around the court that I was practicing on. And since I hadn't been in competition for a long period of time, it was so great to just to have people huddle around the court and watch my every move. And I felt that adrenaline again, because usually in between tournaments, I like to practice where it's a little bit more private and low quiet and because at a tournament, it's a zoo. I always compare.”

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  48. “And they weren't excited to be there. They knew that that wasn't their future. They sometimes didn't even know if that was their college future. But the money that was going into that academy based because of why they were there and practicing and competing was the reason why Nick Politeria was so smart. And when you needed him, he was there. I mean, 5 a.m., he's there on the courts. He's the one that locks the place until this day. And that dedication and that love and passion for what you do, I mean, it's incredible. I just saw him a few months ago. I spent a few weeks there training part of my comeback and he was out every single day. He'd come out for a few minutes. He'd sit down next to me. He'd speak to me like I was 10 years old again. And he's the same Nick as he was.”

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  49. “And the other great thing was that Nick himself he knew what to say and he knew when to say it. And I think you can be a great coach. And I've had many throughout my career, but they're not very good business people. And Nick understood that you only need just a handful, maybe a couple or a few players that could really make the academy what it is. I boarded with eight other girls for a long period of time.”

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  50. “Creating that understanding of what you do and who you are as a tennis player and those mechanics, the basics, the mind, the brain of setting up the next shot before you even hit it, that knowledge you get by playing. And so I had this opportunity I'd play a kid from China. I'd play a kid from Europe that were most likely, I was not most likely, I was one of the youngest ones at the academy at one point. I wasn't even allowed to board there because I was so young. And so I had this incredible experience of coming in terms of competition, of seeing someone across the net that was two feet higher than I was, that was stronger than I was. And I had to figure out how to beat them if I wanted to have my self-esteem or be confident or be a better player.”

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