Athlete

When I fly, it takes me two, three days to recovery, to be good physically.

When you have the ball above the net height on grass, it's easier to play, and when the ball comes at you more slowly, it's easier to play. But when a guy hits hard and deep, I think you have to have been out there playing to understand, but it's hard to really hit the ball.

I do a lot of conditionning in the off season with my coach but there a lot of exercise and they are specific to each individual.

Janowicz is more than just a big server. He moves well, has a fantastic forehand and good hands.

In our job you are constantly travelling, going in and out of different temperatures.

When you play against Roger, it's always special. First, because you play in a big area, in a big stadium anyway. And every time the crowd is for him, so it's quite a good sensation.

I'm a bit like a diesel engine, you know.

We can all play on the court and share the courts with the girls.

Well, we're working hard all the time. We have ambitions.

Everything can happen in tennis.

I get some letters from a lot of people. Sometimes it's nice, with letters from kids or from parents of kids who want to be tennis players, but I also get racist letters. It's really painful to receive something like that because you're not ready for that. You think to yourself, 'That's really bad.' But I realise that there are people like that.

I am black and white.

I think my best friends are my team-mates in Davis Cup. We have been growing up together since we were 11 or 12.

In regular life, I'm somebody pretty simple, pretty calm.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

When you play a big server, you are under enormous pressure on your own serve because you cannot afford to be broken. That causes a lot of players to panic: you see double faults or tentative serves. It's all in the mind, but it still happens.

I hope I will have a family. A house, with a garden, will be nice. And I would love a barbecue! Just very simple things and a passion to work hard.

I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

Of course, I believe injury has stopped me winning more tournaments.