Quotes from Karolina Pliskova

You can see, even the best players, they can lose in the first round.

I feel confident, especially about beating good players.

If you believe in yourself, you can beat anyone.

Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.

Sometimes players can have some ups-and-downs after they have done well and then lose a few matches in a row.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

Sometimes I just put some first serve in, which, on break points, it's pretty important.

When you lose, it's always tough to see the positive things.

Every year, I have a tournament in Czech Republic, so there are a lot of things I'm trying to do. Sometimes the money goes towards children; sometimes it's for wheelchair tennis players. I try to change it so everybody gets something.

My father used to play ice hockey, though not at a high level, and my mother wasn't involved in sport at all, but they were keen that we played some sort of sport. They chose tennis because they thought it was a good sport for girls to play.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

Tennis is a big thing in the Czech Republic.

It's good to have someone on the tour so close to you - I mean, like, my sister. There is no one closer to me on the tour, so I don't need any other friends than her. We always talk about everything; not only about tennis, but about all the other stuff around tennis.

I just want to play well, and I want to win.

I know the world is mean, that there is so much suffering on the planet that none of us can imagine. I often think of those who have nothing, who have to suffer every day, so a winner, a game, set, match will never give me immense joy, only satisfaction.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

Obviously it's very hard for everybody to be successful in the Grand Slams, so that's why some of the players, they lose, and they should not lose.

Maybe America hates me.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

Obviously, to win title, go in Grand Slam semi-final, is always super positive and good.

The main thing for me was when I won my first title in Kuala Lumpur. That was the biggest step that I made. I made the Top 100, and I've stayed there ever since.

Those are the titles you play for, so I'd like to have a Grand Slam title in my life, and I'll do my best to do it.

Before, I was a little bit skeptical about women coaching, because I don't know if maybe they are different, and not every woman can be strict to take the best out of you. I was worried about this, but so far I see that some women can be much stronger than men, actually.

My movement actually is the worst part of the game but still improving.