Former coach Mikhail Youzhny Boris Sobkin, in an interview with , said that the Russian’s achievements in tennis deserve deep respect.
Sobkin coached Youzhny for 25 years. With him, Mikhail became the eighth racket in the world, won the Davis Cup twice with the Russian team and won 19 ATP tournaments in singles and doubles.
— Did Yuzhny make the most of his career or could he have done more?
“We discussed this issue with him at one point and I said to him: ‘Mish, I think you had a good career. Maybe we didn’t achieve what we could. But what we achieved deserves deep respect.’ We reached a consensus on this issue. You always want more: if you were eighth in the rankings, you want to be fifth; if you were fifth, you want to be first; some succeeded, others didn’t. I think Misha was one of the most consistent on the tour. For ten years, only two people were consistently in the top 50: Federer and Youzhny. Out of a hundred during the same period, there were only five of those people.
Of course, I want to win the Grand Slam; in 2006, Misha had a chance to reach the final, but unfortunately he lost to Roddick. What to do – it happened the way it happened, “Sobkin told .
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