I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

