Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.

All I want is to win matches, and the ranking sooner or later will come.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It's a jungle, and it's very stressful at times, but I'm ready for it.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn't played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn't the most popular sport in Venezuela.