In this extra episode in English you're gonna listen to Natasha Bykanova-Yudanov. Natasha have two different professions: on a daily basis she's a tenniscoach at GLTK in Gothenburg, but she's also a well known tennis journalist writing mainly about Russian tennis. Over the years she have written seven books, wrote 4 articles for ITF and have worked and travelled together with the Russian tennis federation for many years. Natasha grew up in Russia and where she started her tennis journey before moving to Australia for six years before she settled down in Sweden.
In this episode we talk about:
- her experience from visiting over 30 grand slams
- how players like Sharapova, Medvedev and Kafelnikov is to interview
- differences in teaching tennis between Russia, Australia and Sweden
- why Russia have been so successful in producing top female tennis players
- the ups- and downsides with coaching your own daughter
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