Russian Tennis Federation (RFF) President Shamil Tarpishchev said in an interview with TASS that he offered 23-year-old Alexander Shevchenko, who announced his transfer to the Kazakhstan national team this week, to stay in the Russian national team. .
According to him, the news that Shevchenko was transferred to the Kazakhstan national team was not news.
“This wasn’t news; He had been waiting for a passport for a year. Shevchenko was developed as an athlete in Austria, not here, so she is not a product of our system. It was almost not in our orbit. We offered him to stay, but he made a different decision,” said Tarpischev.
The athlete, who reached the final for the first time in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament held in Metz in 2023, lost to Hugo Humbert from France in two matches. Shevchenko is currently ranked 48th in the world rankings. On December 1, Shevchenko married Russian tennis player Anastasia Potapova, who is ranked 29th on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) list.
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