"After my surgery, I couldn’t even stand up straight. There was definitely a progression. Tennis was in the back of my mind, but I felt like I had time, as strange as that sounds. I feel like I had time to get well."
"I was feeling so much gratitude that I was able to have the resources to finally get through that. I was nowhere near playing professional tennis, but a year later, I’m in a completely different space, and I have a clean bill of health."
"Love is the key, right? If you don’t love it, then get out of it, if you can, if you have that luxury. Not everyone has that luxury. For me, I think a lot of the motivation is just to come back and try to play in the best health that I can. I never stopped hitting the ball, even when I was away."
"At the end of the day, you have to live your life on your own terms. Your terms should be yours. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says or what anyone else thinks, if you get to live life on your own terms, it’s a life well lived. I firmly believe in that."
"I do what I do because I want to live life the way I want to, unapologetically, with no regrets, on my terms. Do my terms always come out the way I want them to? No, but at least I tried to live on my own terms. That’s super-important to me. That would be my advice: Make your terms and don’t surrender."
"There’s one thing I know, you’re never too young to win or lose. Winning and losing knows no age. All that matters for me is that I’m prepared and ready."
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