'It's very refreshing to be here' - Venus Williams speaks ahead of HK Open

My first time was, I was 18 years old, I think, and I remember being fascinated by the city, and that fascination has never ended. Now I'm here with my family, and I've told them all about it, and I think they feel the same way, so it's a good year. I think things have definitely stayed very much the same, so it's nice to come back to something familiar, and in terms of targets, I think most of all just enjoying myself on the court. I seem to get better with every match, so that's great. Oh yeah, I have the same approach as always in my training and discipline for each match. Of course, I'm extremely professional and I want to know that I can be prepared to give my best on the court. The only way to do that is to be completely prepared and all of the players are playing very well now. I have to be ready for that. After the US Open, I said to my team, I said, I think I want to play in Asia this year. And everyone was like, really? I was like, yeah. But my schedule was so busy. There was only so much I could accomplish. So these two weeks mean a lot to me. This was the only opportunity for me to be here. And I love playing in Asia. And I didn't play a lot in the last, you know. These last 10 years, so it's very refreshing, very rewarding to be here. I think that there's always something new to learn and ways to reinvent yourself and I think that's a lot of what I'm doing here is continue to learn and to push my game and to add things and change things and that's not always easy, but I think it's always the right thing to do, so. It's about just continuing to evolve as a person on and off the court.