Putin has very good feel for the ball. You can tell that she sees the court better than most players. Skelelina can still hit her off the court though :laugh2:
It's so sad that we can't enjoy Olesya's personallity, ups and downs, talent and beauty...I hope that she trains for return next year - there are signs for this! Russia really needs to have Lesya!
She's not coming back, I think it's very clear now. Her recently picking up studying journalism, plus now seeing the IG story she's posted a few hours ago, are pretty definite indicators.
I'm on my phone now so can't upload the story yet, but it's a clip from her match at Kremlin Cup 2017, and the caption reads: "2 years ago... Nobody knew then, that this would be my last match ".
This is not exactly a bombshell, but it's saddening. It makes me even sadder that we don't even know what has really happened... Probably something related to her health not allowing her to play professional tennis, but still, it would be nice to know.
This is not exactly a bombshell, but it's saddening. It makes me even sadder that we don't even know what has really happened... Probably something related to her health not allowing her to play professional tennis, but still, it would be nice to know.
That is a shame as she was obviously extremely talented. I'm sure I remember some gym videos from a few months ago. Maybe she tried building up her training again and realised it wasn't going to work.
But she seems excited about broadcast journalism so maybe she'll be on Russian TV before long.
(Facebook fanpage :p)
So I assume most people who now know about her discovered her at this year's Eddie Herr tournament, where she reached the final as the #10 seed in G12s singles, but unfortunately lost to seed 8 Ellie Douglas, 7-6(4) 0-6 2-6. :sobbing:
Thanks to the streams who could...
http://home17.inet.tele.dk/wta/sp/kudr4280.htm
Here's some more info.
Had her best ever result at Felixstowe around 2 weeks ago where she went from Qual into the final. Did well at St. Gaudens too. And a good tournament at St. Petersburgh too, with a luckier draw she could've gone further.
GO Alla.
Amina is a 16 yo leftie (born September 9, 1999 in Moscow) based in Moscow.
And after a slow and fairly unimpressive start this year, she's started to post some pretty encouraging results since this summer!
Made SFs (as a qualifier) - F - SFs consecutively at 10K Telavi in Georgia in July...
I could not find a thread about this girl, so I thought to open one :).
Born November 15th 1994 (18 yrs old), and having some good reasults so far this year. She finished 2012 for the first time with a ranking as 772 and so far this year she is 16-3 in w-l ratio.
Her results in 2013:
10k...
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