my name is Eva yic I'm 16 years old and I'm from Torrance California I think I do a good job of taking the ball early and just making my opponents feel a lot of pressure off of every shot come on I definitely love tennis I love how mentally demanding it is and how you can kind of find things out about yourself through the sport and grow as a person my mom is originally from Croatia my dad's from Serbia and they immigrated here before me and my sister were born I definitely look up to my parents they work really hard with their jobs and to come to this country having to start from scratch and then work their way up so I've learned you know you have to earn everything you have you have to work hard and just have to be persistent I'm very tied to the Serbian culture I mean we speak it in the house all day and up until I was 12 I went back there every summer and spent a couple months with my grandparents Aunts Uncles I have a lot of family there Novak is definitely an inspiration for me the way he competes and just how dedicated he is to the sport is really inspiring the apartment complex that I was born in had tennis courts on the roof so me and my sister would go out there and play my sister's name is Mia and she was the first one that started playing tennis so I would always play sets against her try to beat her and never really succeed so I'm grateful that I had her to look up to and to practice with in the beginning tennis was more for fun and we played a lot of different sports soccer gymnastics so it wasn't the main priority and then during Co everything shut down so tennis as an individual sport was all we could play so we started doing that more and I started having better results so that's when I decided that I'll just stick to [Music] tennis 20204 usca Billy Jan King girls 18 single Champion Eva yic it's definitely great to win there's so many great players in the draw so to win the tournament it means a lot to me and I'm really excited to build off of it it's great obviously to play in the US Open and definitely the biggest tournament that I will be playing so I'm super excited as an American as well probably going to be a great atmosphere I want to win Grand Slams and get high up in the rankings it definitely wasn't the goal when I first started playing I kind of just got into it to have some fun get some exercise and then for a while it was like okay maybe we can get a college scholarship out of this that would be very nice and then now it's kind of wow we can maybe make a career out of this so has definitely evolved over the years and it's exciting