Sports tennis is not needed by the city. The city cannot provide children with sports opportunities. As a result, if they want them, parents have to take a considerable amount of money out of their wallets for their child’s athletic achievements, and then somehow, slowly but surely, they make their way into big sports.
But where are the facilities for average Kaliningrad families? Choosing between a playground on a construction site of dense urban development and the Olympic-level schools of Valuyeva?
And what seems amazing is that in Kaliningrad there are players, enthusiasts, and professionals who manage to achieve impressive results even at the European level.
As “TR Kaliningrad” has learned, young Kaliningrad players Aleksandra Emelyanova and Anastasia Artemova, students of the tennis academy of Aleksandr Volkov and protégés of young coach Mariya Shalaeva, reached the semifinals of the doubles draw at the European Tennis Association tournament in the “under 16” category, which took place from June 13 to 17 in Šiauliai (Lithuania).
In the first round, they crushed the Latvian duo of Žan Mitrevica and Ilva Poisha with a score of 6/0 6/3. In the quarterfinals, they defeated the first-seeded team, the leaders of the Lithuanian team in that age category, Justina Mikluškyte and Greta Kereškytė. In a tough battle, Aleksandra and Anastasia won 1/6, 6/2, and 10/7 in a tiebreaker.
It remains surprising that Kaliningrad players reached such heights, as finalists of the singles draw were Anna Kalinskaya (Russia) and Alise Isaeva (Latvia). By the way, Aleksandra Emelyanova also performed well in the singles draw, reaching the semifinals.
It should be noted that the success in Šiauliai for our girls was not isolated: before that, they performed well at two international tournaments of the European Tennis Association, held in the Polish cities of Radom and Zabrze, where Mariya Shalaeva’s protégés also performed well, losing only in the finals.
How many medals and championship titles in big tennis do we miss out on simply because we tritely lack the elementary conditions for the professional development of the sport?
If the money wasted on cuts and kickbacks during the construction of pseudo-sports complexes could have been allocated even a little toward creating infrastructure for mass participation in sports, it’s almost too sad to even ask…
But where are the facilities for average Kaliningrad families? Choosing between a playground on a construction site of dense urban development and the Olympic-level schools of Valuyeva?
And what seems amazing is that in Kaliningrad there are players, enthusiasts, and professionals who manage to achieve impressive results even at the European level.
As “TR Kaliningrad” has learned, young Kaliningrad players Aleksandra Emelyanova and Anastasia Artemova, students of the tennis academy of Aleksandr Volkov and protégés of young coach Mariya Shalaeva, reached the semifinals of the doubles draw at the European Tennis Association tournament in the “under 16” category, which took place from June 13 to 17 in Šiauliai (Lithuania).
In the first round, they crushed the Latvian duo of Žan Mitrevica and Ilva Poisha with a score of 6/0 6/3. In the quarterfinals, they defeated the first-seeded team, the leaders of the Lithuanian team in that age category, Justina Mikluškyte and Greta Kereškytė. In a tough battle, Aleksandra and Anastasia won 1/6, 6/2, and 10/7 in a tiebreaker.
It remains surprising that Kaliningrad players reached such heights, as finalists of the singles draw were Anna Kalinskaya (Russia) and Alise Isaeva (Latvia). By the way, Aleksandra Emelyanova also performed well in the singles draw, reaching the semifinals.
It should be noted that the success in Šiauliai for our girls was not isolated: before that, they performed well at two international tournaments of the European Tennis Association, held in the Polish cities of Radom and Zabrze, where Mariya Shalaeva’s protégés also performed well, losing only in the finals.
How many medals and championship titles in big tennis do we miss out on simply because we tritely lack the elementary conditions for the professional development of the sport?
If the money wasted on cuts and kickbacks during the construction of pseudo-sports complexes could have been allocated even a little toward creating infrastructure for mass participation in sports, it’s almost too sad to even ask…
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