I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.

I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?

I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.