All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.