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• I play to win.

• I play to win too!

• And who doesn't play to win?

• Hey, you three, I am here too and I want to have my say, I was born to be the number one.

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• I fight to win.

• I fight to win, too!

• And who doesn't fight to win?

• You know what? Winning is in my DNA.

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• I have technique, physical strength and game strategy.

• I also have technique, physical strength and game strategy.

• I have talent, physical strength and eagerness to play.

• In that I am like you two: I have physical strength, technique and determination.

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• I lived through the war as a child, that war that could take everything away from me: family, tennis, and my country.

• I, on the other hand, experienced the desire for recognition of my parents, my uncles, in soccer or tennis. The tennis uncle won.

• I experienced my mother's desire for redemption and the sacrifices of my father, and I satisfied them.

• As for me, I experienced the need for redemption and recognition of my father, supported by my mother.

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• I was born a leader, and this gives me strength and fills me with pride.

• I have always been the center of my parents' attention and my relatives’ attention. Isolating myself in my cage protects me from distractions.

• I'm always that kid who plays for fun and to make mom proud.

• I would go where she couldn’t go, I would win where she wouldn’t win. For him, we were one, a single winning machine. From puppet to puppeteer, from loser to winner.

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• Before entering the tennis court, I think about my family, my ancestors, and my country.

• Before entering the tennis court, I think about me and... my family.

• Before entering the tennis court, I think of my mother and her sacrifices to get me this far.

• Before entering the tennis court, I think of my father, my mother, myself... and my sister.

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Extract from the book “We Cannot Escape from Ourselves”.