From Fox Sports: Ferrero vows to return to top
The 25-year-old Ferrero, the French Open winner in 2003, saw his standing in world tennis plummet last year when, first, he was hit by chicken pox and then by a wrist and rib injury.
"It was very frustrating but I am a strong tennis player," said Ferrero who faces Australian Open champion and second seeded Russian Marat Safin for a place in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.
"I knew that sooner or later, I will be a good player once again."
"I have to take some time and not go in a hurry all of the time. I have to go step by step.
"You need patience to be a better player. Before what happened last year, I was always in the top five or top ten. Now I have to start again and make new goals, different goals than before, not winning Masters, not winning grand slams, you have to be physically and mentally good again."
"By the end of the year, I want to be back in the top 15. I will fight for that."
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