00:07I wish I had, you know, somebody like me speak out about it and, you know, just raise awareness.
00:17You know, when I would be playing with some kids or, you know, family members and I would miss a ball, I was like, yeah, I see two balls.
00:25These are obviously, you know, symptoms that you can't ignore.
00:28And for me, you know, this is when this journey started and it took me, you know, quite some time to really absorb it, speak openly about it, because it's a difficult one.
00:41It affects my day-to-day life quite a lot.
00:46In my life, I had to, in tennis terms, I guess, reset, hard resets a few times.
00:53I call my first hard reset when I came to the U.S. as a young 13-year-old, you know, didn't speak the language, left my family.
01:02And it's a, you know, very tough time.
01:05Then obviously becoming a great player, it's a reset too, because the fame, money, the attention changes.
01:11And it's hard as a 16-year-old to deal with all that.
01:14And then obviously my stabbing, had to do a huge reset, and then really being diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, another reset.
01:22But one thing, as I tell kids that I mentor, you got to always adjust.
01:27That ball is bouncing and you just got to adjust, and that's what I'm doing now.
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