MOSCOW, November 5 Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas at the press conference conference after leaving the Masters in Paris, he said that there are so many players with Russian roots in the top rankings of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), partly because of their upbringing.
The top 100 of the ATP rankings, in addition to the Russians Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov, Aslan Karatsev, Roman Safiullin, Alexander Shevchenko, Pavel Kotov, includes the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, the German Alexander Zverev, and the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina, who have Russian roots. , Australian Alexey Popyrin.
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"Perhaps there are so many players with Russian roots because of discipline. It is not for me to reflect on the Soviet Union, but I feel that people went through difficulties and difficult times. I see this in my mom, she had to work really hard to get what she wanted, it builds character. “Difficulties make a person strong and disciplined, ready to sacrifice and work hard in order to achieve something in life,” said Tsitsipas.
Tsitsipas is the son of Soviet tennis player Yulia Salnikova and Greek Apostolos Tsitsipas, the grandson of a Soviet football player and coach Sergei Salnikov.