Brandy Norwood

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

It’s her first grandchild, so she’s really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I’m having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don’t like.

Because, to give a goal, the ball must be 100% in and he must be 100% sure that the ball is in.

Before, I wouldn’t have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.

I normally listen to Spanish music – well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

For sure, I’m going to play less matches because I think it’s very difficult to win the same number of matches as last year. Maybe I’m going to play a little bit less, but I like playing tournaments; so if I feel good, I going to play for sure.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It’s not that they have to sink the putt and there’s a great deal of talent involved – but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.