She started playing better in the second set, playing like she had nothing to lose, ... I had to stay in there and stick it out.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

It was just one of those days. I started really well but she improved a lot in the second set. I managed to fight back well in the third set from 4-1, and the crowd really lifted me, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Some days you win these matches, some days you lose them. (Winning here) obviously wasn’t meant to happen this year. Hopefully I can come back next year and do better.

I was prepared for a tough match. In the second set, he started to serve much better. He started to come on and he had me under pressure.

I got a break out of nothing, then the first game of the second set it was a lapse in concentration more than anything.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.