Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.
At that point, it just was very flowing, I didn't even think about it. I just went on court and did my thing and I was very happy doing it.
But sometimes you just don't do well.
Come on, I'm 19 - how could I be a leader of something? No way.
Everybody wants to grow up sometime. And you have to experience that maybe it's not going to work out the way you expected it to.
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.
Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.
I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
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.
I had to start working on myself to be a little bit more in the lifting room and doing the fitness to keep up with the big girls.
I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
I like fast cars. And I like champions.
I really enjoy it with a passion, it's not only a job, it's the thing you want to do, you want to be successful and you want to do well.
I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but it's very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.
I think it was like sometimes in life things happen and you try to change them and if you learn from mistakes, it's always a good thing.
I think it's just everything turned out well if you have the right people around you, you realize the support they give you and the trust too.
I think just to be more patient sometimes - that you can't have everything at once, but learn to deal with your feelings a little bit better.
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.
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
I was always very well prepared by her to expect what's happened and that's how things came so naturally to me.
I was very competitive. I didn't want to be the worst. I always wanted to be at the top. Whatever I did, I wanted to win.
I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.
I went to Nepal with the World Health Organization. And I plan to go to Colombia to see the street children in Bogota.
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in 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.
I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
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.
Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.
One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.
Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.
The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.
The older you get, the more you learn.
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.
We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.
Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.
When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
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