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I played three years as a junior.
A lot of what I enjoy about tennis is the cheering crowd.
I love doing core workouts. The core is so important in tennis.
One of my strongest assets is my ability to be calm under pressure.
There are so many people supporting me and so many good people on my side.
I have someone who invests my money in a safe way so it continues to grow.
I just want to be the best that I can be, and I'm focusing on my own career.
Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.
When I travel I have a full-time physio that I pay for myself. He also handles strength and conditioning.
I feel like I always win at least a round or two at every tournament. I don't go out in the first round too often.
I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.
So I think, for me, playing matches - actually being in real matches - is the best way to get myself playing the best tennis.
My strokes come from a lot of different people. I personally take credit for my forehand. My uncle helped me a lot with my backhand.
It's a really good feeling in moving up the rankings so quickly because it's so reassuring that I made the right decision in turning pro.
I've met with a lot of nutritionists and have a good idea of nutrition and what I should eat and when to eat it. I would at some point like to get a chef.
It's important to work the core in all planes of movement, as we move in all three planes in tennis, especially into rotation and anti-rotation movements.
Because when you're 10, 11, 12, 13, you see all these strokes and you want to copy them. And it's not easy to keep what you started with, if that makes sense.
We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands on both sides, which I didn't stop doing until I was about 8.
I think it's awesome that we're 50 years into the US Open being the US Open. It hasn't always been here. It's growing every year. Getting better every single year I come here.
Anything that would help me get my ranking up and get me seeded at tournaments will make my draws a lot easier and give me a much better opportunity to go deep in these tournaments.
My parents got me into tennis, and it's why I do what I do, and probably why I do it as well as I do it, because I've always had their guidance and their experience and their help throughout my whole life.
When you're a kid, you don't know what's right and wrong, so you kind of just have to listen to what they tell you, and I'm just fortunate that I had people around me who knew what they were talking about.
I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.
If I'm winning a lot and going deep in a tournament, I don't do a lot of heavy workouts. I'll instead do a lot of short sessions where we focus on functional exercises, with the matches obviously being the major workout for each day.
The first practice is two-and-a-half, three hours, and it's really physical. The second practice starts after lunch at 1 p.m. We work on specific stuff, like coming to the net. After that, I play sets. Then I'm in the gym for an hour-and-a-half doing legs, upper body, and cardio.