I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.
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I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
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I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
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When we don't laugh and when we don't have fun, we play very bad. So in order for us to play well, we need to enjoy it and have fun.
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I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.
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I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
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