Martina Hingis

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

The older you get, the more you learn.

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.