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At the end, I have to take the court I get scheduled on.
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I'm one of the best players in the world. I think I can be proud about this.
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Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.
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Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.
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I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.
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I'm ready for every single match every single day.
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I'm feeling good about my movement on grass courts; I can serve a little bit better. This makes me much more dangerous than on hard.
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The Germans must be together.
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Now I can say I'm a Grand Slam champion, and it sounds really crazy.
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I just have to play my best against my opponents.
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On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.
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My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
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When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
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Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.
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I am trying to be nice to everybody, and then, of course, everybody's nice to me.
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To win the major, you have to play two weeks your best tennis and deal with a lot of things around, to put things together so to be really focused.
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When you know you can run forever on court, you're not worried that you can play three sets. I think this is really important for your confidence.
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It's a new situation. Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.
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To see that hard work paying off is very good.
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I was trying to be improving my game, being more aggressive, and not just playing from the defensive end.
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Puszczykowo is an important place in my life. I feel like I am at home there.
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I know how to win big matches.
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I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.
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Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.