Olga Morozova, multiple USSR tennis champion and former coach of the Soviet Union national team, spoke in an interview with about her contribution to the creation of the Kremlin Women’s Cup.
The first women’s Kremlin Cup was held in Moscow in 1989. The winner of the singles championship was American Gretchen Majors.
— You were at the origin of the creation of the Women’s Kremlin Cup. Tell us what your contribution was?
— It was in the fall of 1988, I was then coach of the USSR national team. Together with Viktor Yanchuk and Vladimir Golenko, we thought about organizing the Kremlin Cup, and Shamil Tarpishchev tried to reach an agreement with the APR. At that time I was with the American players and tried, as they say, to “break through” this topic there. A girl from the WTA, who was responsible for all these processes, came up to me and said: “Olya, I beg you, call Moscow and tell them to send a telegram with an application for host this tournament. Even if you don’t have the financial means yet, take this week from the tennis calendar and then decide what to do with it.
Naturally, I urgently called Russia and asked it to send information to international associations. Then the accommodation request didn’t even have financial conditions. Yanchuk and Golenko sent in an application, and so we received it this week, and then we had a whole year to formalize and organize the tournament. In 1989, the first International Women’s Kremlin Cup was held at the Olimpiysky. It went very well,” Morozova told .
In 2022, the ATP and WTA suspended tournaments under their auspices in Russia due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
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