On Friday, the Davis Cup match between the Russians and Swedish national team starts in Kazan. The winner of this duel will play with the Holland team for a place in the playoffs of the world group.
Vladimir Rausch
from Kazan
When looking at the Russians and the Swedes, who were gathered for the draw in the conference hall of the Kazan Academy of Tennis, a breaking phrase about the rapidness of worldly glory came to mind. Teams will have to join the fight in the second largest division of the Davis Cup, and even relatively recently they asked tone in global tennis. Our team conquered a silver salad bowl twice - in 2002 and 2006, her opponent owned prestigious trophies more often - as many as seven times. And now, look, both of the team go to the next long hikeAt the end of which even looming not to meet lost positions, but simply return to the global group of the Davis Cup.
Those who sigh over the current state of Russian male tennis, look at the Swedes. Borg's country, Vilander and Edberg in the national team now represent players, the best of which in the world table of ranks is (attention!) Already in the seventh hundred. According to experts, the orientation of the mass sports has led to such the situation of the scandinavians. As a result, fans tennis players in Sweden Pond Pond, but high-end professionals were almost extinct.
However, the Swedes have players and better than those who flew to Kazan. Dark-skinned Elias Imer stands now in the ATP ranking at the 151st place, and Christian Lindella chose the 256th position. However, the captain of the guests Fredrik Rosengren was not very willing to comment on their absence in the composition. "I brought those who are in good shape and configured to play. The rest or injured, or sick, or simply not ready. Let's talk about those who are now in front of you. I am very pleased with the fact that I got in my location of these Players, "he said to journalists.
Official tennis events like a thursupy draw is usually extremely informative. However, even by separate replicas can be judged, in what condition is the Swedish national team. For example, the Captain Rosengren already mentioned, commenting on the power of his wards, proudly stressed: "My guys are hardly trained for two weeks." The phrase sounded as if they didn't do it before. And the leader of the Arvidsson team, answering the question when he was last met with a tennis player from the first hundreds of world ranking, replied innocently: "In my opinion, it was two years ago."
And what about Russians? The first racket of our team was predictable by Teimuraz Gabashvili. As the second number, Shamil Tarpishchev preferred to Andrei Kuznetsov, and not Eugene Donsky.
Kuznetsov last year had already met Arvidsson and beat him. Thus, Andrei will have a certain psychological advantage. In addition, we want to distribute the load as uniformly as possible on all guys. At the same time, with Kravchuk, he successfully spent steam matches with Kravchuk, "the Captain of the national team explained his decision to the Special Center.
Thus, the only thing that can be a little to peel our team, has become the order of the exit of tennis players to the court. The wilts of the Match will be able to open the second racket of Russians Kuznetsov and the leader of the Swedes Arvidsson. If Gabashvili against Twidl came to the site first, this owners would suit more. However, a 25-year-old tennis player from Balashikha is now on the rise and has a serious advantage in the class above the opponent. The main thing for him is not to delay if suddenly the match will begin to develop wrong.
Groups teams
Russian team
Teimuraz Gabashvili. Age - 30 years. Place in the ATP rating - 48. Place in the pair rating ATP - 114.
Andrei Kuznetsov. Age - 25 years. Place in the ATP rating - 55. Place in pair rating ATP - 347.
Evgeny Donskoy. Age - 25 years. Place in the ATP rating - 82. Place in pair rating ATP - 733.
Konstantin Kravchuk. Age - 31 years old. Place in the ATP rating - 129. Place in pair rating ATP - 215.
Team captain - Shamil Tarpishchev.
Sweden national team
Isaac Arvidsson. Age - 23 years old. Place in the ATP rating - 658. Place in the pair rating ATP - 575.
Daniel Twidal. Age - 19 years old. Place in the ATP rating - 930. Place in pair rating ATP - 807.
Robert Lindstedt. Age - 38 years. Place in the ATP rating - - -. Place in pair rating ATP - 27.
Yuhan Brunchrem. Age - 35 years. Place in the ATP rating - - -. Place in pair rating ATP - 91.
Team captain - Fredrik Rosengren.
Match schedule
March 4, Friday. Kuznetsov - Arvidsson. Gabashvili - Twid.
March 5, Saturday. Donskaya / Kravchuk - Bruunchrem / Lindstedt.
March 6, Sunday. Gabashvili - Arvidsson. Kuznetsov - Twid.
Junior years
Sofia has not badly showed itself at the international competition competitions already in the junior years, reaching the positions in Top30 as a single and pair rating among senior juniors. The peak of the performances came on the ranks of the 2000s and 2001 seasons, when Arvidsson reached the 12th line of a single rating, regularly played in the later stages of tournaments G1 and G2, and also got to the only final at the Tournaments of the Grand Slam: at Australian Open, giving only the sown leader of that competition Elena Yankovich.
The first years in the proture
At competitions among adults, Swedish first tried herself in early 1999, having received the opportunity to experience herself in small tournaments at home. In August, Sofia first tried herself at WTA competition, playing in the qualifications of the small competition of the series in Belgium. Gradually grinding his gaming skills, Arvidsson began to perform more confident in small tournaments and for July followed the next year, was able to win his first title - on 10-thousand in the Bostad paired discharge; The path to the first title in a single category was taken by fourteen months and one lost final - in September 2001, Swede won similar on the level of the tournament in Sunderland. Gradually focusing only on the protuure games, Sofia increasingly increases the effectiveness of his speeches and for the fall of next year it rises to the border of the second and third hundreds of single classification, in July, debuting in the main grid of the WTA tournament, and a couple of months later, spending their first matches in the selection Adult Tournament of the Grand Helmet: On US Open, where it comes to the final circle. A year later, the positive trend continued - she regularly played the qualifications of the competition of the Association tour and fully advocated the round of the Federation: among other things, he played twice in the final of 50 thousands: at first losing the title match in the Italian Orthiza, and then defeating American Eugene. These small successes in combination with a decline of the results of the then leader of the National Single Tennis Osse Svensson, allowed Arvidsson for the first time to finish the calendar year of the country's first racket.
In 2004, Sofia began to play more prestigious competitions more actively, which initially led to the local decline in the results. In January, Swedet for the first time took part in the main grid of the Grand Slam tournament, and later won his most status pair title: along with the same Swensson defeating 75-thousand in American Midland. The success of the beginning of the season did not have the continuation in the future - not too successful combination of tournaments of different status dropped Sofia by the end of the season at the beginning of the third hundred rating. However, getting the opportunity to build its schedule of performances more conservatively, Swedish a year later played all the lost positions and finished the season for the first time in Top100; Playing small federation tournaments? She gradually restored confidence in his abilities and in May the second time was able to achieve the right to play the basis of the Big Helmet tournament: this time, after going to Roland Garros, and followed and winning the first match at a similar level. Gradually, the results of the Swede grew more and gradually, the success began to come not only at the Federation competitions, but also in the tournaments of the Association, where Arvidsson began several quarterfinals since August, and in early November, he made his way into his first final at the same level (in Canadian Quebec, Where I gave way in the title match by Emi Phrase).
In 2006, the results managed to secure: Arvidsson played in the main grid of every big helmet in the main grid, consistently won matches in the tournaments of the Association, and in February, the first title also won on the tournament in Memphis, playing all the same phrase in the semifinals. Later, the results went on the decline and the rest of the season brought only one, relatively large, success - Sofia reached the semi-final at the Stockholm tournament. A year later, the crisis was aggravated - Swedish reincarnated his schedule of speeches by the Federation tournaments, due to which he gradually normalized its rating, completing the season at the very beginning of the second hundred classification. At the turn of spring and summer, the drop in the results forced Arvidsson twice to play qualifying competitions to the Tournaments of the Grand Slam. In 2008, Swedeg again entered and secured in the first hundred rating, winning more and more matches in the tournaments of the Association: so in February she twice reached the quarterfinals at this level - first in Antwerp, and then in Memphis. In May, Arvidsson secured at the beginning of the second fifth rating, winning 75-thousand in Zagreb, thanks to which I was able to display and play in the Olympic tournament for the first time. Until the end of the season, Sofia managed to write on his own account another final at a large competition of the federation - in November, he gave way to 100-thousand finals in Odense Carolina Wozniaki.
A year later, the next decline was followed, who threw the Swede in the middle of the second hundred and forced her for the first time in five years to skip the three main grids of the Tournaments of the Grand Slam. Retrieving his calendar with small tournaments of the Federation again, Arvidsson gradually overcame this game crisis, and the early defeats in the association competitions made it possible to pay more attention to pair speeches, where Sofia finally completed a series of defeats in the semifinals of the Association tournaments and played the title match - in Quebec, where, together with Severin, Bremon Beltrah lost to Wan King and Barbor Colavoy-Strytsova. After that, the final of the Swede significantly increased its effectiveness at the Protection Competitions and in a short period won several dozen matches in a single discharge on medium and large federation tournaments, replenishing their rating. In 2010, a successful series continued: Arvidsson reigned again in the first hundred classification. At the beginning of this season, the tournament for the tournament playing everything more productive, Sofia has achieved his first finals in the Competitions of the Association - everything in the same Memphis, she got from the qualification to the title match, giving only Maria Sharapova. In April, Arvidsson and Yuhanna Larssson were able to bring out for the first time in seven years and secure their team in one of the elite divisions of the Federation Cup, first winning the regional division, and then reheame in the playoffs of the world group of the Chinese national team. In the second half of the season, Arvidsson strengthened its position in the middle of the first hundred of rating, not a broger to maintain gaming form The game and on relatively small tournaments. In August and November, she gets twice to finals of 100 thousand people: first giving the Bronx Anna Chakvetadze in Bronx, and then taking the top in Poitier over Polun Parmerty. The team played in the national team with Larsson in September brought both the first title at the Competitions of the Association - everything is in the same Quebec, where in the final of the Swede, the top of the Barbor-Strews and Betany Mattek-Sands took.
After a year of position in the first hundred, a single rating was retained, as well as replenish them a similar rating in the paired discharge. Peaks of performances in solo tournaments fell into several, few connected with each other, competitions: Double Arvidsson made his way into the third round at the Competitions of the Association - in May, in Brussels and in October, in Beijing; And also once - in the fourth: in July, in the Bostada. The pair year brought several semi-finals at the same level and one title match - in Auckland, where Sofia, along with Marina Erakovich, gave way to a pawn and catharina. In 2012, Swedie again improved the results, first completing the season in the first fifty solitary classification. In February, Sofia won the Association competition for the first time in six years - again in Memphis, taking the top in the final over all the same Erakovich. In the future, Arvidsson stably won the matches at the largest tournaments, and in smaller competitions regularly made his way into the late stages, where the largest successes were two semi-finals: in Brussels, where Sofia lost to Simone Halep, and in Moscow, where Arvidsson lost to Carolina Wozniaki. In the steam discharge, in the season, Swedish mined his next final: together with Kayei Kanepi Sofia reached the title meeting in Copenhagen, without citing the decisive tie break with Kimiko Date-Krumm and Rica Fujivara.
In 2013, Swedet landed in a protracted decline, gradually having fallen into the end of the third hundred rating. In that season, Sofia retreated to the beginning of the second hundred classification, just a long time playing only a relatively large association competition and only in the fall trying to play federation tournaments. Against the background of problems in a single discharge, once it was possible to shine in a pair: In the top for himself, Memphis Arvidsson, along with Yukhan Larsson, got to his next final, where he gave way to Christine Blynovich and Galina Voskoboeva. In 2014, the game problems were further aggravated: even regular games on 25-thousand and the qualifications of the Tournaments of the Grand Slam did not lead to a quick correction of the situation, and by winter the rating fell so much that the Australian Open-2015 became the first for the last 50 tournaments of the series without the participation of the Swede.
National national tournaments
A very long career Arvidsson in the proture fell at a noticeable crisis in national tennis and her, often, was not a special alternative in the application of the national team in any official team tournament. In the Cup Federation, Sofia played for the first time soon after his sixteen and the next 15 years did not miss a single tournament draw, adopted during this time in 88 games that came to 50 match meetings, where 36 single matches and 14 pairs were won. During this time, Arvidsson rewrited all the statistical records of the team and from time to time, together with Yukhan Larsson, played with the national team in one of the elite divisions of the tournament, in 2009-11, returning the team to the second world group of Sofia and Yuhanna tournament in a row seven matches Meetings within the tournament, setting a new peak achievement of the Swedet for this indicator. Also Arvidsson once was involved for the national team in the Hopman Cup - in 2006, when, together with Thomas, Yuhhansson could not get out of the group at the preliminary round.
Twice Swedes represented its state at the Olympic Tennis Tournament: in 2008 and 2012, a couple of times playing in a single tournament and once having tried himself in a mixture.