looking at your uh match record and realized that um a year ago you were playing 15ks 15 15 houses yes I was I think I played one did I play two two back to back yeah oh yeah I did I played in Tampa and Orlando yeah and and didn't even win them no I didn't I lost like cat cat I don't know why cat Stewart is playing one of them and she's so good on clay and I was like cat I like why are you playing this I made like it was so funny she beat me in the finals I think in Tampa but but all of which to say a year later you had a career high ranking yeah I know it's crazy how that works huh better than you than you ever did even in other periods when you were healthy yeah I know it's crazy to what do you attribute that well one being healthy um one staying healthy being healthy and staying healthy I think the last few times where I was kind of like on the cusp of kind of like breaking I don't know if you want to call it breaking through whatever you want to call it but kind of taking youing the next so more the bigger events and stuff like that I was always like right there and then I would get hurt so it was like I just wasn't holding up but I think my my training and my fitness is I wouldn't say like huge difference but just a lot more detailed and thorough and now that I'm older I'm a lot more conscious of like what I'm doing especially with all my injuries so it definitely has a a major effect because I would say my movement's a lot better um which you know is a big deal in the game now because everyone is good you know so everyone can hit the ball that's the problem so like the movement has really helped a lot and then the staying health healthy of course happy birthday 25th all right you can now rent a car without having to pay a I said it was like this is my last big like Milestone I can run a car and then like nothing really till I don't know maybe 30 right I don't know not that important oh no I'm going to be dead soon you won't uh you I mean you've had you had knee issues and like that was like a year and a half so it was me and then it was my hip and then the hip yeah it was rough what kept you going through all that um I would say after my my knee surgery I came back pretty quick and it was when I was still working with Michael and I came back almost I think I don't even think I used all my special ranking tournaments I got back up to 150 really fast um again I always I did well in like the bigger tournaments which helped and then the hip surgery I was rough that was really hard um because I kind of made it back again to like the 150 range where I was playing really well at the end of the year I had some good results and fall but then that's when my hip was kind of started to bothering me and uh that was it was hard to get through because it was like I don't know if I can do this again CU it's just it's so taxing you know and like I think though because I came back so strong after the knee um it gave me a lot of confidence where I like kind of soaked around for a week or so just a week like I was like this is going to be miserable whatever but then I I was like you know what I can do this you know and I think what actually helps is seeing other girls do well um you see girls that you were playing with or practicing with you know a month ago and they're breaking through or they're have a big run or a big win or something and it really motivates you because you know seeing that when you're laying in bed you're like God I can still do it I can get out there and then obviously when you do get out there then you're like okay I'm still far away from that spot but um I don't know I think I just I I just love playing tennis you know I love it and I love competing and I want to do that as long as possible you know and it seems like the age is keeps going up with people and that's also another thing you haven't even hit your Peak quote unquote seriously like the woman are playing at a much later age were for whatever reason I think maybe because of nutrition and Sports and Medicine everyone seems to be smarter with everything but um that's definitely been a motivating factor too but I just love tennis and I want to keep playing and competing and I know I've been right there multiple times so I'm glad I came back and pushed myself through it because now I'm at a career high which is a great accomplishment it seems like a crazy thing to be 23 let say and think oh well you know I'm done with this career already Ian that doesn't make olical sense no it doesn't it was more just thinking I had to go through the rehab which was like it was going to be a long and the knee the knee was something different where actually wasn't something that big of a deal it was just this annoying irritating little thing I had to get taken out and the hip though like it changed my whole body like it changes the way you run and like all these different things so it was just like it was a lot more invasive and just taxing I think on myself like as a whole and I kind of knew that going in and uh it was just hard because you know I got back to 150 and I was like crap like I might to do this again so I sued about it for like a week and then I was over it but did you think did you think at any point that like 150 was maybe your ceiling like maybe that was as good as it could get no I don't it's not bad but it's no of course not well I think there's a stigma that it's bad you know I think sometimes people think if you're not like 10 in the world like you're never going to be whatever you're not that good it's still pretty great but if you think if you think you can to Spire higher it's yeah of course and but no I never I think maybe sometimes if I was kind of like down on myself like God like am I ever going to like kind of break through like I know I have the game like I have a big game like I know I can do it it was just like you know pushing through and I I don't know I don't know really what changed I'm not I'm really not sure I think I stopped putting such a like a mile marker on it and was like you know what like why is top 100 my goal you know why isn't like number one my goal like that you know it seems kind of silly when you look at like I was making top 100 like this huge milestone and not that it's not it's a great accomplishment but it was just kind of something where I hit it and I passed it and I was like okay is that all it is okay let's go next I'm like yeah I can keep going like this this isn't this isn't it so I'm not sure what change but I mean you likely you likely will be main draw at the french open this year I think so me most likely I would think so I don't really have that many points to defend you have like 50,000 points but yeah but obvious I don't know you know whatever else is doing but you have you have some w i mean that's going to be that's going to be a first for you yeah well now I have like this time where I can really well even at the beginning of the year I had time it was like this section where I was like okay I can really make a push and it's kind of a f like a fine line because you don't want to be thinking like I some girls are different but I don't really want to be thinking like points points points points like this is my time to get the points but at the same time you have to have like this good s like this good feeling like okay I have like six months here where I can just go out every day every week with a good attitude a good mentality like train hard and I know like I'm going to set myself up really well for the rest of the year like no matter what happens week to week everything changes so I think that was definitely like a big reason I think most of my points are just in the fall or end of the summer or something but you know it's exciting because I get to play hopefully main draw French won and I haven't been main draw of any of those so it's exciting yeah yeah that's a big thing yeah you're going to walk in there the first time as a legit wimbledon's a big one because I haven't been to the main site oh have you never been there you like to say hello no I've never even like made it to like these Grand Place Jesse just keepes hype he's like oh my God main draw won like we got we're gonna be main draw won like he's so excited I think just because he wants to probably but you know everybody who walks in there whether it's a fan for the first time or a player or whatever is just walks in and it's like Disneyland that's what I hear so I'm like really excited for now I've I've been to the French before not that it's not great in its own way but yeah won is like that prestigious thing like I haven't gotone inside yet so I mean they have the B kids with little Pi picking every little piece of dirt between all the little tiny you knowers it's it's crazy so that that'll be that'll be a really good experience I'm excited tell me this I mean you obvious I mean you're you're conscious of this you obviously have have um wiggle room that a lot of players won't have I me you could be injured for a year and a half you can afford to travel with a full-term coach you can do all those things do you ever you ever sense any any resentment from other players that not of your privilege but of of how you know lucky you are to to have the latitude yeah to continue on as long as you yeah of course no I've always thought of that you know I'm not like oblivious to that um I think I've always in return try to just like counter that with working really hard and also not I don't know if it's acting like I'm have a upper hand I don't know what it is but like I was raised pretty I mean not to take things for granted like work hard like my parents are very like blue collar like didn't come from a lot so I think they've instilled in me to be like that no matter what no matter what your background is so uh no I don't really feel any resentment I think maybe sometimes I would put that on myself like maybe they do think that I don't know for sure no one's ever said anything to me but the fact that the fact that you're a that you're a nice person probably yeah like I would never I would no I would never like act like I don't want I don't like people knowing so like I definitely don't like flash it around or like I'm showy with it um but at the same time like it was something hard when I was younger because I I felt uncomfortable a lot like more myself not other people but it was more myself like I felt really uncomfortable like but then I like I think as I got older I realized too like I was given this amazing opportunity like I'm sure most girls would like love to be in this position like why not take advantage of it so I almost thought of it in the other way as in like okay now that I'm older um I have all these amazing people around me and like you know God gave me this amazing opportunity it would be almost selfish in a way to not take advantage of it and prove it right in a way I guess I would say hey look there there are a few players we could name who who who if they had that attitude would there would really be something the reason I'm asking because I think that the the prevailing assumption is that if you have other options if you you know come from money if you come from wealthy family you're not going to want it as much I think Ernest comes to mind in that in that I think I think what you've done over the last few years has pretty much debunked that yeah I mean I hope so and you know of course you there's going to be people that are always going to say stuff you know obviously but like it's and I don't want to say I want to like prove people wrong but a little bit I do and I guess prove to myself like hey you deserve it because it is hard because sometimes there were times when I was younger I was like I don't deserve this like do I deserve to be like traveling with a full-time coach or like a trainer like you know but at the same time you know my parents wanted to help they were like hey like you work hard I think you deserve it so I was definitely lucky but there are also times too where I don't like to spoil myself so if there are times where like okay maybe I could I don't know four to five first class here first class here I'd be like you know what now like I'm I'm gonna like you know be conscious of like what I'm spending what I'm doing um you know if I got to drive I got to drive like I I definitely do little things where I don't want to seem like I'm just I don't know milk in like every little bit I have well of course of course the goal would be to to to live and thrive on your earnings from the job that you're do yes exactly I mean I treat it like a job for sure and I think again as I've gotten older I found ways to to learn like as I'm becoming or I am an adult like I learned how to kind of think more along that lines and not feel uncomfortable or bad that I was terms with yeah you almost just have to deal with it you know people are all born into different situations so you just got to deal with it and I was born into a very good like grateful situation and I was like a little ashamed of it but now I'm like you know what I just got to do my thing you know prove my parents you know make them proud and that's all you can really do so yeah you didn't ask for it it just happened yeah I no yeah I not like I was like demanding these things but no I mean that birth yeah exactly no and it's and also too like I my the whole bills and Sabers thing didn't happen till I was about 17 and I wanted to be a number one in the world since I was like eight so there it was I think some people lose that perception like I've always had that goal when I was like a young kid so it definitely it wasn't something that I was directly Born Into You know but it it definitely obviously changed a lot of things when I was around 16 or 17 but hasn't I don't know it's been fun really I mean it's a cool situation to be in so can't complain one final thing what has Jesse rine brought to uh to the uh the package here um no I think he's he's brought like some stability um I think in the past I've had I don't know maybe not made a lot of my own decisions which I kind of wish I did more of and obviously I was younger but I think now um he brings like a good stability where he lets me he gives good input but he also knows that it's my decision and he doesn't kind of um put too much pressure on me or make me feel I don't know that he's pushing me too hard um because I think I'm pretty hard on myself as well so you know he's kind of pushed me in the right direction and then um just really helped my game again get back my movement better and also he understands my game he knows I want to play aggressive but also kind of added that element of being consistent at times changing the pace up um just adding more elements to my game because he was kind of more of the opposite of what I was so I think that it's great that he sees how what I should play like but then also he can add a little bit from his experience like um you know his movement and his uh playing Smarter on the court and stuff like that and I think that's actually what's really gotten me a lot better it's my ball striking has always been there but it's kind of like all these other little pieces that have helped you know put it together and make me you know get over that push a little bit get to 92 yeah exactly and treat treating you like an adult and and allowing you to to to manage your own career at a certain level is a is a big thing yeah for sure I think some girls you know you forget in the grand scheme of things that like you're the boss you know so it's not a normal situation it's not and it's funny because I've learned so much from the sports teams my parents have it's like there's a lot of other people making decisions but for tennis players I it's your decision ultimately and like you should have a good team around you that really helps helps you with those decisions But ultimately like it's up to you and I think he does a good job of like giving me um options and giving me feedback then also he's like okay if that's what you want to do that's what you want to do we stick to that so that's also a good thing but he's also not afraid to tell me if he doesn't agree which is a good thing too actually great good luck to see yeah thank you