I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.
I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.
I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
I don't do heavy weights at all.
I go to yoga classes and work on my core.
I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.
I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
I love to collect modern art.
Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.
After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.
I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
