“Unfortunately, Bolshunov is less famous than Rublev. Although the scale of victories exceeds it several times” – Dmitrieva

Skier Alexandra Bolshunova in the world of sports, unfortunately, much fewer people know him than tennis player Andrei Rublev, although Bolshunov achieved more serious results in his career than Rublev. This opinion was shared with by the multiple tennis champion of the USSR Anna Dmitrieva.

This season, three-time Olympic champion Bolshunov won 12 consecutive victories at the stages of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup. By decision of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS), Russian and Belarusian athletes have been suspended from international competitions since March 2022 due to the situation in Ukraine.

In 2024, Rublev won the Monte Carlo Masters and the tournament in Båstad, Sweden, and finished the year ranked fifth in the world. His first tournament of the new season will be the competition in Hong Kong, where the Russian received the first seed. The tournament will take place from January 1 to 7.

— Are Russian tennis players currently the strongest in the world?

— There are no strongest tennis players in the world based on their nationality. There are very high level players. Like the Serbian Novak Djokovic, the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, of course, Rafael Nadal, who has been shining on the international scene for twenty years.

Among them, we can cite Daniil Medvedev. There are several countries that send, as they say, their representatives to become leaders. And Russia is one of these countries.

The names of our tennis players are known all over the world, but such an outstanding athlete as Alexander Bolshunov, unfortunately, is less known than Andrei Rublev. Although in terms of achievements, performances and the scale of victories, he surpasses Rublev several times. This happens because Bolshunov participates in very restricted competitions and not as often as we would like,” Dmitrieva told .