I love the fact that I live in Dubai now but I must say it is very ‘dangerous’ for someone who loves to shop as there are so many places to do that over here.

When I came here I was like ‘Oh my God, this is not good’. I don’t shop often but when I do my credit card takes a beating. I spent part of my holiday here end of last year with my best friend Belinda (Bencic) and we went shopping. It was just a disaster, money wise.

We have all those players parties and professional events with sponsors and we’re used to always being in sports outfits. So that day I went shopping with Belinda and we just went crazy for nice dresses and shoes. We bought Louboutins and many different dresses and of course, for one day it’s quite expensive.

But you know during the year we don’t do that stuff. We don’t go on these big shopping sprees, so that day was really big and we were like ‘what have we done?’ We’re not used to spending that much money for ourselves in just one day.

But we were planning for the whole year; ‘this dress is for the pre-Wimbledon party and that one for this’. So that kind of justifies the whole shopping trip and the massive bill. We said ‘we deserved it, we had a pretty good year, we can treat ourselves’.

On a different note, I’m so happy and proud of Belinda as she made her top-10 debut this week. She’s an amazing girl, she plays obviously great tennis and she’s super young and it’s such a big achievement. I’m sure she can go even higher.