Updated: 3 hours ago -. Published: 05 / 02/2016 at 09:57
– At the Australian Open Maria again lost to Serena Williams. When you see an American in his part of the grid, what you think?
- In order to win a tournament you have to beat Serena. When Mary comes to the quarter-finals, semi-finals or the final “Grand Slam”, she wants to win in the upcoming match. And no matter who her opponent. While meeting with Williams is very difficult for her. Everybody knows that the games with Maria Serena always shows his best tennis. It is obvious. No one else so it does not play like a Sharapova. But Mary fighter, and she wants to continue to work for these meetings and to look for their chances. That is why all of its know how tennis player who fights to the last on the court. So no matter which part of the grid is Serena. To become a champion, you have to beat the best. That is what Mary and tries to do. I hope the rest of the girls on the tour is played by the same rules.
– There is a suggestion, why Serena shows her best tennis is in Maria matches ?
- Serena hates Maria.
– How did you come to that conclusion ?
- It’s just my opinion on this account. Serena does not like to play Mary. Recall, the Wimbledon final, when Sharapova won. Serena did not like the fact that Mary is the star that she earns more money and so on. When Serena comes out on the court in the meetings with Sharapova, the expression on her face is different. She just wants to kill every ball. But all this is only a plus and the most Serene. That is why it is such a great fighter.
– Sharapova Serena earns more ?
- I do not know how much in the bank at the Serena. But Mary more advertising contracts. It takes up more space on the market.
– Coach Patrick Serena Muratoglu lately regularly says that Mary Williams concedes around – say, Sharapova is unlikely to perform 21 ace of the match with an American, as it was in a meeting with Belinda Bencic.
- You’re talking about the giants of thought (in the original – Mastermind, as he calls himself, Patrick – Note Eurosport.ru.)? I need to carefully select words to respond to it all. I will say this: first take a look at his coaching resume before he began to work with the greatest tennis player of all time with the most powerful in the history of the supply of women’s tennis.
“ITF simply can not keep up eventually Tennis International Federation -. As the dinosaurs”
– I saw what you wanted to play in Melbourne, in the Fed Cup in Moscow and Doha. But Maria said she did not come to court to Indian Wells. It is so?
- The plan was as follows: Melbourne, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Doha. But given the health problems at the beginning of the season, as a result of the last two tournaments we refused.
– One of the main claims of the Russian fans to Mary is: Sharapova rarely in favor of the Russian team in the Fed Cup. I would like to understand why.
- She likes to play Fed Cup, but it is very difficult. People who are not really watching the tennis, do not understand why Top tennis players are incredibly difficult to find time for team matches. Look at the history of the competition – it’s not just Mary. Even in the ATP-tour, if you are ranked in the top, win a lot of matches, fighting for the title, the time the Davis Cup remains. So it’s not just Mary. All to play for random – there is a match, the match here. But each time Sharapova is in the national team, she enjoys all that is happening in the team.
– As the International Tennis Federation to do with the Fed Cup and Davis Cup, so that all were satisfied Tops ?
- ITF simply not kept pace with the times. The International Tennis Federation – as dinosaurs. ITF is the dinosaurs. Cite me that way. They need to come up with something else. In my view, the Federation Cup should be held every two years. The top four or eight teams should be collected in one place, and let him play the title as part of the Final Four or the Final Eight. ITF is necessary to propose a solution that will attract top players. Because when leaders come, the tournament becomes incredibly interesting. Now, sometimes I turn on the TV and see a Fed Cup match, so there is half-empty stands. And it’s terrible. Therefore ITF to get back to reality, to gather around him, and creative people look for options to resolve the situation. It is important that the top players were.
“Remember that time when you were Mary, Myskina, Dementieva, Safina. The country is proud of them”
– I understand that it is difficult to judge from the side, but I have a feeling that the Russian Tennis Federation and also in need of fresh blood .
- We do not know all the political nuances facing the OFWs. But, if I headed a federation, it would have set a task to the Top-100 were 20 Russians and Russians. If less than twenty – is a crime. Because tennis – a sport which should be a strong psychology. A Russian athletes in this inflexibility component, and this is their advantage over the others. The strongest tennis player – a Russian woman. So if you do not have 20 players in the Top 100 ATP and the WTA, it means that something is wrong. I heard that OFWs builds National Tennis Centre, is it true?
– Yes, for several years, and, according to Kafelnikov, it will be completed by 2018. .
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- So long? National Tennis Centre is extremely necessary. It is important to make so that worked there the best coaches of the country, to come to the most talented guys. You’ve probably seen the National Tennis Centre in the UK, where it is possible to prepare, even to the Australian Open, although any other tournament. Why is it that Russia should not be such a center? You have so many good coaches and a high level of ex-players. Gather them together.
I have built the following structure: a child can engage in there for free, but when placed in the Top-50 rating, it starts to give OFWs a certain percentage of the prize money. Thus, it will cover all the costs of the federation, which had been under his training, and RTF have the money to train the next generation of players. For example, you are a tennis player, who was trained at the National Tennis Center for five years and every year spent 100 thousand dollars for you. When you enter the Top 50, you must return the five hundred thousand, giving 20 percent to the prize. It is clear that there will be a misfire, as not all will reach the Top 50. But those who can not be realized, should not return anything. We need a clearly established system, and then everything should work. Even despite the fact that there may be blank shots.
So you urgently needed National Tennis Center with the best coaches, the best tutorial. It is important that both the government realized that tennis – is an incredibly powerful tool for advertising the country. Russia No better advertising than when your tennis players to win major tournaments, Olympic medals, “Grand Slam”. Remember that time when you were Mary, Myskina, Dementieva, Safina. It was an incredible time. And the country was proud of these girls. On Olimipade 2008 Beijing Russians took all the podium – that’s as it should be all the time.
– But now gradually growing up the next generation of players – Kasatkina, Gasparyan and Kulichkova. Some of them signed by your company IMG?
- Offhand not say. But they are very good. When Maria and Svetlana Kuznetsova won her first “Grand Slam”, they were ten years old, and they certainly watched it all on television. Therefore, the impact on the success of 2004, when Myskina, Sharapova and Kuznetsova won at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open, you can feel right now. And it’s great! But these young girls at the moment should have been at least twenty.
“I can promise right now that Sharapova will not perform at the Games in Tokyo”
– Something has changed in the team dealing with Sharapova OFWs after Anastasia Myskina won the post of captain of the women’s team ?
- With Myskina, many things have become much easier to go. She went all the way from the talented player to the winner of the tournament “Grand Slam”. Therefore, in terms of communication is now much easier. But as a whole, 2006-2007, our relations with the OFWs were good enough. Yes, in the beginning we were not easy to understand each other, but Shamil Tarpishchev did everything that we worked well together. And the appearance Myskina – this is a very good move.
– Even attacks Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the direction of Mary do not disturb? Communicate with him in Moscow?
- No. He is a special person. Let’s leave it at that. I think, Kafelnikov a little jealous of Mary’s success. But it’s not scary.
– Returning to Mary herself – it’s not the last season of his career, right ?
- I think no. But in order to play again, it needs to be healthy. If this will happen, if it will listen to the voice of the body, to the advice of doctors, and if it is to play at a high level, it will continue to serve for several years. But if health is not, it is unlikely that it will remain.
-? That is the participation in the Olympic Games 2020 is almost impossible
- Four years? I can promise right now that it does not perform at the Games. Where will they be? In my opinion in Tokyo. No, that is without it.
– It turns out that the current Fed Cup match against Holland may be the last to Mary in the team. After all selected to the Games should be no more.
- I’d say it’s probably her last visit to a match of the Fed Cup. Apparently, it is.
– One of the highlights of vnetennisnoy career Sharapova – is the Olympics in Sochi in 2014, when she ran in the stadium “Fischt” with the Olympic torch. That show was attended by many of the great Russian athletes – Isinbayeva, Karelin, Tretiak, Rodnina, Kabaeva. With someone of them Maria maintains contact?
- Hard to tell. I know that she exchanged phone numbers with a gymnast.
– Kabaeva .
- Yes. But I do not know if they are called up.
– I have heard that you are in the dressing room then offered Yelena Isinbayeva, who was preparing to become a mother, her child to become an agent. So it?
- Ha-ha. Yes it is. I remember it. But I joked. To defuse the situation.
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