By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.