China Daily (Hong Kong)

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“Tomorrow I shave it. I wanted to keep it because I was winning some matches, so I said, ‘Don’t touch the beard.’”

saying he will remove his bushy beard after losing to Andy Murray

Benoit Paire,

“You guys make us think and answer questions we don’t want to think about. I just want to go out there and play and talk to nobody.”

Svetlana Kuznetsova,

dealing with the press

“He’s my emotional support animal. He’s like a service dog.”

on her dog Doncha

Kuznetsova,

“It’s too upsetting for him. He hears me, but he doesn’t understand where I am.”

on why she doesn’t video-chat with her dog Harold

Venus Williams,

“I just keep stretching. I have no secrets. I stretch a little harder now. But only because I enjoy it.”

on how she keeps going at 37

Williams,

“If they would put us on Court 20 I wouldn’t mind.”

Elena Svitolina,

on

happy to play even on a non-existent court

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