It Is Very Hard For Me To

You Cannot Take All The Chances You Get.

I Could Go And Make Commercials Left And Right And Pretend Like I Am A Celebrity, But That Is Not Me.

If You Get Operated, Something Can Go Wrong And You Can Just Say Bye-bye To Tennis. That's What Happened To A Lot Of Soccer Players In Europe. They Get Operated, Some Things, It's Not The Mistake Of The Doctor. It's Just Some Surgeries, They Just Don't Go The Right Way...my Injury Will Never Go Away. It's Already Become So Chronic There's No Chance To Fix It So I Can Play Without Pain.

It Was Really Impossible To Break Through In Russia. We Couldn't Buy Any Balls. We Really Didn't Have Any Courts, No Rackets, Nothing. And No People To Practice With.

From Now Until The End Of The Year I Would Like To Eke Out One Victory, That's My Short Term Aim. I Am Sure I Can Be Competitive In 2004. Tennis Is Like Riding A Bike, You Never Forget How To Do It.