"Over the years, I have realized that in tennis, the psychological component is perhaps the most important. There is a huge amount of tension, and if you want to excel, the mind plays a big part and, above all, ‘the mind lies’, so you have to train it. As if it were a muscle, you have to find a way. In the past, few people trained their minds as they could have, but in my opinion it's important and today we work on it more. I have increasingly followed a certain type of mental training, if you can call it that, also because of the need to get out of certain situations. Interviewer: “Would you like to talk about it?” Fognini: I remember one year I was in Paris, and one night I woke up almost crying, next to Flavia [Pennetta]. I thought I was going to die. I was sweating, my heart was racing, I couldn't feel my left arm, I thought, “Help, I'm having a heart attack.” But no, it was a panic attack. The next day I went onto the court and didn't know what to do, I didn't know where to go, I couldn't breathe properly. These panic attacks have to be managed, you have to work on them, getting your mind used to them with exercises and being aware that things like this can happen. At first I was scared. But not as a tennis player [...], as a person. I thought: I don't want to be like this. Because it's not about suffering on the court, fighting, giving my best, running, winning matches: that's a kind of suffering I'm willing to endure. But off the court, I don't want to suffer like this."