Russian tennis players, organizers, referees, managers and all those, who involved in Russian and world tennis has received awards from the hands of famous athletes and leading personalities of our country. This gorgeous event was hosted by DJ of Russian Radio Max Orlov and captain of Russian female national tennis team Anastasia Myskina.
The winners:
1. Team of the year: Team of the Federation Cup
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, Vitalia Dyachenko, coach Elena Likhovtseva and the team captain Anastasia Myskina.
2. Team of the year: Girls under 14 years
Vlad Koval, Taisia Paskaleva, Anastasia Tikhonova, Anastasia Potapova, coach Irina Doronina
3. Team of the year: Boys under 14 years
Timothy Stingrays, Daniel Thank You, Rail Ibragimov. coach Alexei Kuznetsov was Awarded the Alexander Ostrovsky
4. Team of the year: Girls under 16 years
Olesya Pervushina, Evgeniya Levashova, Elena Rybakin, coach Oksana mishukova
5. Team of the year: Girls under 18 years
Anna Kalinskaya, Anna Blinkova, Alexandra Pospelova, coach Vera Miklaszewska
6. Juniors of the year
Roman Safiullin, Sofya Zhuk
7. For the contribution to the development of Russian tennis
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian tennis and the President of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev
8. For the contribution to the victories of Russian tennis
Director of the office of Primorsky Krai Oleg Sholokhov
9. For the contribution to the development of world tennis
The ex-ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti
10. For the contribution to the development of a regional tennis
Governor of the Ryazan region Oleg Kovalev
11. For the contribution to the development of Russian tennis
The Minister of sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko (received by Deputy Minister Pavel Kolobkov)
12. For the contribution to the development of Russian tennis
Naina Yeltsina
13. Tournament of the year: the Cup of the Governor of the Astrakhan region
The President of the tennis Federation of Astrakhan region Dmitry Nosenko, the main judge of tournament Oleg Salesevic
14. Tournament of the year and team of the year: the world team beach tennis championships
The Director of the tournament Mariya Karpenko
Team of the year: Yulia Chubarova, Irina Glimakova, Daria Churakova, Nikita Burmakin, Sergey Kuptsov, Nikolai Guriev, captain Stanislav Zaichenko
BTRUSSIA was able to communicate with our beach tennis players on the results of the award ceremony:
BTRUSSIA: Tell us about your impressions of these awards? Such a recognition could give more power and drive for new achievements. What are your plans for next year?
Daria Churakova: Of course, it is very nice to receive the award. Good to know, that beach tennis was noticed, and people paid attention to our sport, congratulated players with successful performances and other things. About the drive – we always have it! We play not for awards!
We have big plans, but in our sport with travels for the tournaments we're depend on Tennis Federation and the Ministry of sports (for example, whether they will be able to make financial assistance in our trips). The exact schedule of tournaments for next year is not clear for now, but in any case we will try to show the best tennis to achieve high results!
Yulia Chubarova: All actors dream to get an Oscar. Of course, the Russian Cup is not so famous as Oscar ceremony, but I always wanted to be a winner (from 14 years, when I first learned about it, and played tennis). This experience is fantastic!
I think, the future of our sport depends on us: if we are going to work hard and raise the level of beach tennis in the country and in the world, then the game will become much more attractive. Also it is in our hands to grow the prestige of this sport in Russia, for example, by becoming World Champions. This is the plan for next season!
BTRUSSIA: How did you like the ceremony? You think is right to honored beach tennis together with his big brother? Because it’s kind of different mood...
Daria Churakova: I liked the Ceremony. Friendly atmosphere, lots of familiar faces, cool communication. The fact is that our beach tennis players are mostly ex tennis players, so the event is very harmonious. We don’t have relationships with other federations of beach sports, so it is difficult to imagine, for example, make event with them. But probably we should think about that in the future.
Yulia Chubarova: By Calling us on stage for the awards, the organizers compared us with the stars of world tennis and now I want to see our status only increased. I want people stop to compare beach athletes with the tourists and I want us start to be recognized as stars of world sport.
The ceremony also commented the Director of the world team championship in Moscow Maria Karpenko:
"It is wonderful that at the Russian Cup ceremony this year were awarded many juniors who are our future. Also important Cup for Naina Yeltsina, who is the Head of Fund of Yeltsin, which support our young players. It's also nice that Vladimir Dmitriev honored too, because he helps our younger tennis generation very much. And, of course, it is amazing that our beach tennis players get award. Well done!"
We congratulate all the winners of the national tennis award "Russian Cup" and wish to achieve new heights in the future!
The award ceremony director of the World Team Championship in beach tennis and the Russian national beach tennis
Tennis Award Ceremony (Full version juniortennis.ru)