Honored Russian coach Vladimir Kamelzon said he considered the German tennis player Alexandra Zvereva Russian athlete.
Zverev beat Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, world number two, in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Wednesday. The 26-year-old German will face Russian Daniil Medvedev to reach the final.
— In the semi-final of the tournament in Melbourne, the Russians will meet on the field. Zverev is as German as I am Chinese. I know his parents – they are from Sochi, they just live in another country. Yes, they know German, but at home they always speak Russian. His father Alexander Mikhailovich is a brilliant coach who passed on to Sasha everything he knows about the Soviet tennis school. That’s why I consider him a Russian tennis player,” Kamelzon quotes RT.
Zverev has played Medvedev 18 times in his career, with the Russian winning 11 matches. The semi-finals of the Australian Open with the participation of tennis players will take place on Friday.
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Source : MatchTV
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