Russian Tennis Federation Explained

Russian Tennis Federation
Logosize:180px
Sport: Tennis
(incl.)
Jurisdiction:National
Abbrev:RTF
Founded:1989
Headquarters:Luzhnetskaya Naberezhnaya, Moscow
President:Shamil Tarpishchev
Replaced:Tennis Federation of the RSFSR / Tennis Federation of the USSR
Prevfounded:1959
Url:www.tennis-russia.ru/

Russian Tennis Federation (Russian: link=no|Федерация тенниса России) is a national governing body of tennis in Russia, founded as the All-Russia Tennis Association in 1989 and reorganized under the current name in 2002.[1] It is the successor of Tennis Federation of the RSFSR (1959–1989) and the Tennis Federation of the USSR (1959–93, known before as All-Union Tennis Section, 1929-1959).

In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Tennis Federation suspended the Russian Tennis Federation.[2] In addition, Tennis Europe suspended the federation's membership.[3] Teams representing Russia were therefore ineligible to compete at all Tennis Europe events (including Winter & Summer Cups, European Beach Tennis, and Senior Club Championships). All Tennis Europe events in Russia were suspended, including the European Junior Tennis Championships (16 & Under) in Moscow, and delegates from Russia were not eligible to attend the 2022 Annual General Meeting of Tennis Europe.

History

Arthur Davidovich McPherson (1870–1919), a native of Petersburg, was the founder and president of the first All-Russian Union of Lawn Tennis Clubs, the forerunner of today's Russian Tennis Federation. In 1903 he organized the first St. Petersburg tennis championship, and four years later he set up the first national tournament. By 1913 the Russian championship was on the international tour and the game was thriving.

Chairpersons

All-Russia Union of Lawn Tennis Clubs

All-Union Tennis Section (1929—1959)

Tennis Federation of the USSR

(subject to the Tennis Federation of the USSR; sometimes listed as combined with the USSR)

All-Russia Tennis Association

(successor to the Tennis Federation of the RSFSR since 1990, to the Tennis Federation of the USSR since 1993)

Russian Tennis Federation

(consists of 74 regional federations)[10]

  1. Bakulev, Vladimir
  2. Bokarev, Andrey
  3. Gordeev, Alexander
  4. Kafelnikov, Yevgeny
  5. Lazarev, Vladimir
    1. Myskina, Anastasia Panteleev, Evgeny
  6. Selivanenko, Alexey
  7. Vikharev, Dmitry
  8. Yumasheva, Polina
  9. (Secretary-General) Shatkhin, Yakov

Juniors

See also: List of Grand Slam boys' singles champions, List of Grand Slam girls' singles champions, List of Grand Slam boys' doubles champions, List of Grand Slam girls' doubles champions, Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cup and Tennis at the Youth Olympic Games.

16-and-under teams

Tournament! width=5%
Yearwidth=15%Host width=35%Winner
Boys1990 Rotterdam
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (later represented CIS (1992),
/, since 1993)[11]
Andrei Medvedev (later represented CIS (1992),
,[12] since 1993)
Dmitri Tomashevich (later represented CIS (1992),
, since 1993)
Girls1997 Vancouver
Anastasia Myskina
Elena Dementieva
Girls2009 San Luis Potosí
Ksenia Kirillova
Daria Gavrilova (since 2015, has been representing)
Polina Leykina*
Girls2010 San Luis Potosí
Margarita Gasparyan
Daria Gavrilova (since 2015, has been representing)
Victoria Kan*
Girls2013 San Luis Potosí
Veronika Kudermetova
Daria Kasatkina
Aleksandra Pospelova
Boys2016 Budapest
Alen Avidzba
Timofey Skatov (since 2018, has been representing)
Alexey Zakharov
Boys2021 Antalya
Yaroslav Demin
Maxim Zhukov
Danil Panarin*

Junior GS singles finalists by year

Local Boys' titles
Year width=200Australian Open !width=200French Open !width=200Wimbledon !width=200US Open
1959 Toomas Leius
1965 Vladimir Korotkov
1966 Vladimir Korotkov
Vladimir Korotkov
1991 Andrei Medvedev
2009
2014
2015
Total by
country
1x 2x
1x
3x
1x
Local Boys' runners-up
Year width=200Australian Open !width=200French Open !width=200Wimbledon !width=200US Open
1962 Alex Metreveli
1964 Vladimir Korotkov
1987 Andrei Cherkasov
1999 Mikhail Youzhny
2023 Yaroslav Demin
Local Girls' titles
YearUS Open
1961 Galina Baksheeva
1962 Galina Baksheeva
1965 Olga Morozova
1971 Yelena Granaturova
Marina Kroschina
1975 Natasha Chmyreva
Natasha Chmyreva
1976 Natasha Chmyreva
1986 no competition Natasha Zvereva
1987 Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva
1998 Nadia Petrova
1999 Lina Krasnoroutskaya
2002 Maria Kirilenko
2006 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2007
2009 Ksenia Pervak
2010 Daria Gavrilova
2014
2015
2016
2023
Total by
country
4x
1xNEUTRAL
2x
2x
1xNEUTRAL
8x
3x
2x
4x
Local Girls' runners-up
Year width=200Australian Open !width=200French Open !width=200Wimbledon !width=200US Open
1958 Anna Dmitrieva
1968 Eugenia Isopaitis
1970 Marina Kroschina
1986 no competition Leila Meskhi
1990 Tatiana Ignatieva
1991 Elena Makarova
1999
2001 Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Kuznetsova
2002 Maria Sharapova Maria Sharapova
2003
2009 Daria Gavrilova
Yana Buchina
2010 Yulia Putintseva
2011
2012 Yulia Putintseva
2015 Anna Blinkova
2020
2021
2023
Legend
Player won all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in the same year
Player won 3 Grand Slam singles tournaments in the same year
Player won 2 Grand Slam singles tournaments in the same year
Bolded name indicates player went on to win Senior Grand Slam singles title

Junior GS doubles champions by year

Event Year width=200Australian Open !width=200French Open !width=200Wimbledon !width=200US Open
Girls' Doubles 1984 Larisa Savchenko
Girls' Doubles 1986 no competition Leila Meskhi

Natasha Zvereva
Girls' Doubles 1987 Natalia Medvedeva

Natasha Zvereva
Natalia Medvedeva

Natasha Zvereva
Girls' Doubles 2001 Galina Fokina
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Girls' Doubles 2003 Alisa Kleybanovacancelled due to inclement weather
Girls' Doubles2005 Alisa Kleybanova
Girls' Doubles2006
Girls' Doubles 2007 Evgeniya Rodina
Arina Rodionova
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Girls' Doubles 2008
Girls' Doubles 2009 Valeriya Solovyeva
Girls' Doubles 2011 Irina Khromacheva Irina Khromacheva
Girls' Doubles 2012
Girls' Doubles 2014
Girls' Doubles 2015 Aleksandra Pospelova
Girls' Doubles 2016
Girls' Doubles 2019 Oksana Selekhmeteva
Girls' Doubles 2021 not held
Girls' Doubles 2022 Russian and Belarusian players suspended because of the politics Diana Shnaider
Boys' Doubles 2023
Girls' Doubles
Total by
country
1x
6x
2x
4x
1xNEUTRAL
1x
4x
6x
2xNEUTRAL
Legend
Player/Team won 3 Grand Slam doubles tournaments in the same year
Player/Team won 2 Grand Slam doubles tournaments in the same year
Bolded name indicates player went on to win Senior Grand Slam doubles title

Junior GS doubles titles by country

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Charter . 2011-02-08.
  2. Web site: Russia-Ukraine War: Sporting bodies come down heavy on Russia . 8 March 2022 . Associated Press . cnbctv18.com .
  3. Web site: Tennis Europe statement on Russia and Belarus . Tennis Europe . 1 March 2022 .
  4. Web site: Russian Tennis Federation . 2011-02-08.
  5. Web site: Макферсон Артур Давыдович . Transliteration

    Makferson Artur Davydovich

    . smsport.ru . Contemporary Sports Museum . 19 September 2021.
  6. Web site: Бобров Георгий Николаевич . Bobrov Georgy Nikolayevich . bessmertnybarak.ru . Bessmertny Barak . 1 December 2021. Sentenced: by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on June 20, 1938, on charges of participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization.
  7. Web site: 2. Руководители советского и российского тенниса (с 1918 – по настоящее время) . museum.tennis-russia.ru . RTF Museum . 26 June 2024 . ru.
  8. Web site: Федерация тенниса СССР. Tennis Federation of the USSR . sport-strana.ru . 28 July 2015 . 4 October 2021 . ru.
  9. Web site: Shamil Tarpishchev . olympic.ru . . 22 November 2021 . Chairman of the Tennis Federation of the USSR (1991) and of the CIS (1992).
  10. Web site: Региональные федерации. Regional Federations . tennis-russia.ru . Russian Tennis Federation . 4 October 2021 . ru. https://web.archive.org/web/20220421162658/https://tennis-russia.ru/ftr/regionalnye-federatsii/. 21 April 2022.
    • Web site: Руководство . Management . tennis-russia.ru . 4 January 2022 . ru. https://web.archive.org/web/20220421162658/https://tennis-russia.ru/ftr/struktura/rukovodstvo/. 21 April 2022.
  11. Web site: Макрон изменил синий цвет на французском флаге. Но этого никто не заметил . . 21 November 2021 . ru . 15 November 2021 . In 1991–1993, the colors of the Russian state flag were designated as white, azure and scarlet. But in 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin changed the colors to white, blue and red. He also changed the ratio of the flag's width to its length — instead of 1:2, he has approved 2:3.
  12. Web site: #ffd700 color description : Pure (or mostly pure) yellow . colorhexa.com . ColorHexa . 3 August 2023.