Yevgeny Kafelnikov - "Dominic Thiem should be grateful to Günter Bresnik"
Grand slam winner, poker champion, top golfer: Yevgeny Kafelnikov went through all stages of his career with "Kasi live" (daily from 6:00 p.m. in our Instagram account " tennisnetnews ").
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last edit: Apr 06, 2020, 12:43 pm
Yevgeny Kafelnikov has achieved everything he set out to do in his career. The Russian legend took stock of this in Instagram chat with Christopher Kas on Sunday evening. And indeed: 25 titles in singles on the ATP tour (two of them at Grand Slam tournaments: 1996 in Paris, 1999 at the Australian Open), plus 27 in doubles, and climbing the world rankings to number one in 1999 are worthy of all honor. What his Russian compatriots identify with most, according to Kafelnikov, is the Olympic gold medal in Sydney in 2000, where the now 46-year-old defeated Tommy Haas in the final.
The tennis scene is still closely linked to Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and he regularly exchanges ideas with Brad Gilbert on Twitter. Russian tennis is not bad, among the 15 best players in the ATP charts are three compatriots Kafelnikovs: Daniil Medvedev , Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov. Interestingly, Kafelnikov grants Rublev the greatest potential, even if he often has to deal with physical problems and occasionally with mental dropouts. Kafelnikov has benevolently taken note of Medvedev's incredible 2019 season, but confirming these successes would be extremely difficult.
Thiem and Zverev with the greatest potential
For the tennis year 2020, Yevgeny Kafelnikov does not yet look completely black. But assumes that the game will continue into December. And no one should complain about that, they would have done it anyway in their time. When asked about the upcoming Grand Slam winners, Kafelnikov, unlike Marcos Baghdatis, who showed up in front of him at "Kasi live", sees Alexander Zverev on the right track. And before Rublev, Medvedev or Stefanos Tsitsipas.
The number one on the list of potential Grand Slam winners is also for Kafelnikov Dominic Thiem . Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Russia, however, also reached the customer of the recent flare-up between Thiem and ex-coach Günter Bresnik. And his opinion is clear: "Dominic should be grateful to Günter." After all, he has the main part in the development of Austria's number one.