"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."

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"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."

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"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."

Sports

"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are."

People

"I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there."

Parenting

"Sometimes you want to make your own experiences."

Want

"The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference."

Difference

"Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image."

Home

"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."

Computer

"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."

Pretty

"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you."

Trust

"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better."

Woman