I said don't hang up..whatever you do, don't hang up. And I told him my predicament. I said I'm going to die unless you get someone out here to help me. And I told them where I was, and my gosh, she did--she hung in there.

Here I am laying on the floor and I grabbed whatever I could grab to cover up with, blankets and stuff off the furniture and that.

If I were a parent and someone told me my kid was going to go there, I'd be hesitant, as well. But it's going to be dramatically different nine months from now, and 21 months from now.

We put ourselves in this predicament and now we have to get ourselves out of it.

I did whatever I could to keep her awake, keep her talking to me, and told her to keep her eyes open. She wasn't making any sense, but as long as she was talking it was OK.

I wasn't aggressive enough in the first set, so after that, I told myself to hang in there and wait for my shots. I definitely feel like I always play well in Tokyo, and I think I'm off to a good start this week. I love the court here. I like the speed. It's like grass, which is my favorite surface.