The World Motivation
It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
“It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.”
— Ana Ivanovic · Aged
It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I'm on court, it is all about my game.
If you are happy in your private life, and - that will affect your tennis, and that will help you, actually.
Tennis has opened a number of possibilities for me, and in future, it would be great to give something back.
If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.
I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.