When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn’t and that’s the game. That’s just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don’t need to play.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together – the guys and the women. It’s good.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years – it’s a long time.

The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it’s a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it’s important.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that’s the way it works in our world.

The day I stop feeling the pressure and I’m just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I’m 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

Unlike in my young days I’m not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

I definitely wanted this win today and I don’t want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

Whether it’s in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.