Setting a goal, accomplishing it, and feeling good about yourself can help build confidence and perseverance.

I like weightlifting and cardio workouts, and I'll do a lot of circuit workouts and plyometric as well.

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don't like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I'll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play.

I don't always have to play my absolute best to win matches.

For me, losing is definitely not easy, but I think you just have to keep everything in perspective. Just remember that there's another tournament around the corner.

If you're not in my immediate circle, you're not someone whose opinion I value.

It's, you know, kind of nice to be under the radar.

One night I couldn't sleep at three in the morning and I thought, I'm going to color-coordinate my closet. And I did. There's a whole system. It goes from white to black and then all the colors in the middle. Then it goes by tank tops to T-shirts to long sleeves, and then it goes to the next color. Then it goes to sweaters the same way.