"It was a very long process, having surgery and doing rehab. I never had to do anything like that in my career before. Every athlete at some point in their career has a bad injury, and I made it to age 27 without surgery, and then I had two."
"It never crossed my mind to stop. I always wanted to stop on my own terms, and I did not want to be forced to stop because of an injury. Now, I am at the very beginning of my journey of coming back, and hopefully, I have many more years of this."
"I'm proud of myself, of all the work that it took to get here. I'm happy I could show myself that I could still do it and also get a little confidence from winning matches. I just want to keep going, one match at a time, one tournament at a time, and enjoy that journey of coming back."
“I haven't gone a year without playing tennis since I was five years old. It's hard to be forced to not to do what you love. I was able to do some cool projects off-court, such as commentary and other stuff. But my favorite thing is to play tennis, so I’m really happy to be back.”
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