"People always ask about my freshman year and say, 'How is that possible? How is it that you weren't even playing in the lineup?' And I'm like, well, it actually wasn't that crazy. At that time, I wasn't nearly at the level that I wanted. Being in that environment where they'd just won the national championship pushed me to be a better player and to figure out what I needed to develop. It was a very humbling experience."
"There is an uncanny delight in the fact that of her four WTA singles titles, half were won in quick succession in this final stretch of her career, as though somehow the conviction in what she wants for her life off-court... has unlocked a sense of liberated clairvoyance. She is going to retire, but first, she is going to win."
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