A well-known coach, former Russian tennis player Dmitry Tursunov, commented on the end of his career Anette Kontaveit.
The former second racket in the world Kontaveit has announced his retirement from sport due to a degeneration of the intervertebral disc. During her career, the Estonian has won six WTA tournaments and reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in 2020. Kontaveit is 27 years old.
Tursunov coached the Estonian tennis player from August 2021 to June 2022.
– Many players have innate physiological moments that need to be worked on. For example, Andrei Kuznetsov suffered from a hip joint throughout his career. So it’s a common situation. She had a physical trainer with whom she had worked for a long time. I did not delve into these situations. The task of a tennis coach is to describe the task, and a specialist in this direction tries to implement it with the help of physical training and recovery processes. Some players are allowed to get involved in such moments or expect it from the coach, others are not.
I didn’t know about this particular problem. For a few tournaments she had back pain, but that’s normal for all players. It’s a professional sport, you are always at the peak of your abilities. Almost everyone ends up hurting themselves in some way.
His decision did not surprise me. She’s been talking to the press for months now that she has a back problem. As for whether she lived up to her potential, the question here is whether she could have played better, but that’s a very subjective opinion. She had an overall successful career. A year before becoming the second, she was 30th. Second place – a successful career. The main thing is that the athlete himself is satisfied with his career, and everything else is just theory, ”Tursunov quotes Metaratings.ru.
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