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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: «I want to hoist the cup again!»

October 03, 12:30 PM

Anastasia, you’ve begun working with Sam Sumyk. Tell us, why did you choose him? And what can you tell about your joint steps together in tennis?

I was always interested in Sam as a coach. Often saw him on the tour, respectively, saw how he worked and achieved good results with his players. At the moment we are having a trial period and before the end of this year we will decide what direction to take. I hope as we move closer to the Moscow tournament, it will be clear. For now I like everything, it’s very interesting and I learn a lot of new things and practice them.

After the tournament in Osaka you wrote in your Instagram that this is your first joint tournament with Sam Sumyk and right away you achieved such a good result together as you reached the finals scoring en route some excellent wins. How do you evaluate this result? What match was the most difficult at the tournament in Japan?

We started working right after US Open. Sam flew to the south of France to join me, and we trained before Japan together for about 6 days and immediately managed to play in the finals of the tournament in Osaka. None of us expected such a result or nurtured any special hope and expectations. I just tried to use Sam’s tactical and technical advices. All matches were quite difficult, but one of the difficult ones was against Bertens. It was the start of the tournament, the second round, besides I had lost to her in our previous match in America – that was a mental factor. On the one hand it seemed like I can do it, but I was really struggling to beat her. So this moment was important (beating Bertens), and then it was also difficult to play the quarterfinals and semifinals on the same day. So I hadn’t much stamina left for the finals.

During the US Open, you put together a series of funny videos. Please tell us, whose idea it was? Share with us your general impressions from the shooting process and the end result…

It was very funny. The guys are my friends - Rob Steklion from Canada and his younger brother, who is now trying his hand at acting, you could also see him in the video. For Rob this is a hobby and he helped me in Canada and at the US Open as a coach. He worked for a long time with Lucie Safarova, then with Shapovalov. I also love to take pictures, do creative things, and we have done it all together. Participating in video editing was a new experience for me and I really liked it, so I would like to do such things in the future.

It seems to me that all these videos demonstrate the other side of the players' life and this is an opportunity to show myself from the other perspective. I like to have fun and try to follow the fashion industry and through the videos you can share with others not just tennis but the other part of your life, too.

This year you play doubles in tournaments with Anastasija Sevastova. What can you say about your pair on the court? Have the fans already picked up a nickname for the duo of the two Anastasias?

We started to play with Anastasija Sevastova after Wimbledon - 2018. The first tournament was in Cincinnati, where we immediately reached the semifinals and beat very good players, and reached the quarterfinals at the US Open. In fact, for 3-4 tournaments we were able to reach the 12th place in the race for the year end tournament.

Therefore, this year we wanted to play more tournaments, but, unfortunately, not everything turned out as planned. Sometimes she had health problems, sometimes I had some. Now, at the end of the season, we did not play with her, because I started working with a new coach and decided to play fewer tournaments. I really like her game and play doubles with her. She is comfortable on the court, she speaks excellent Russian. We had the funny hashtag #TeamNasty, it seems to me that everything is quite logical here.

This summer you attended the Ed Sheeran concert. Liked it? Can you name the top 3 concerts you managed to attend?

I arrived in Milan specifically for the concert, it was a great experience. I like Ed Sheeran. He has been gathering packed stadiums For so many years. The atmosphere itself struck me. Throughout the whole concert he was on stage with a guitar, occasionally distracted to drink water. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen many concerts in my life. I liked Rihanna and the agent helped me to get the tickets, but I didn’t like the performance that much. I was also at Katy Perry’s concert in Sweden and LMFAO.

VTB Kremlin Cup is a home tournament, therefore it is special for Russian players. You hoisted the trophy of the Moscow tournament in 2014. With what spirit and with what goals will you approach the tournament this year?

This is a special tournament for me and for all Russian tennis players. When I was very young, I came from Samara with my parents specifically to watch the final matches. These are traditions, this is our everything.

I always really wanted to win the Kremlin Cup and in 2014 I succeeded in it, so this year I want to tune up to the same result and hoist the cup again.

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Pavlyuchenkova advances to R2

Schedule for October, 16th

Photo gallery of October, 15th: second day of main draw

Karlovic defeats Bedene

Mladenovic ousts Putintseva

Rublev outguns Bublik

Doubles results of the day: The Italians start with a victory

Chardy defeats Nicolas Jarry

Kudermetova beats last year finalist

Gracheva gets the better of Tomljanovic

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Moscow hosted the «Russian Tennis Night»

Kalinskaya beats Potapova, Kuznetsova out

Anna Kalinskaya: «It was very important for me to win my first main draw match here in Moscow»

Elina Svitolina: «Here every match is very important for me!»

Varvara Gracheva: «I respect all the players, everyone does a tremendous work»

Dubrivnyy reaches main draw, Gracheva is in qualification finals

Women’s doubles draw unveiled

Six Russians to fight for a spot in main draw

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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: «I want to hoist the cup again!»

Daria Kasatkina: «I am so happy that this season is finally over!»

Daniil Medvedev: «As a professional, I cannot step on court, knowing, that I am not 100% ready to play!»

Moscow hosted the «Russian Tennis Night»