I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
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That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.
I knew I was going to play pro tennis when I was 12.
You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.
Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.
It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.
I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.
In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
