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03 Dec

Никита Бурмакин: “На корте мы ведем спортивную игру. За кортом - стратегическую”.

В обновленном рейтинге ITF мужскую мировую классификацию возглавил россиянин Никита Бурмакин. За 2 недели у нас с получилось сделать интервью прямо при получении багажа в аэропорту после возвращения с турнира на Арубе, где Никита сенсационно одержал победу. Когда ты впервые почувствовал, что сможешь стать первой ракеткой мира?У меня появилась эта мечта в тот самый день, когда я впервые увидел пляжный теннис и узнал, что по нему проводятся Чемпионаты Мира и Европы, а также большая серия турниров по всему миру. Что пляжный теннис - новый вид спорта, официально признанный Министерством спорта РФ, а его развитием занимается международная федерация тенниса (ITF).Теннис на пляже в теории был для меня идеальным сочетанием, ведь с раннего детства я серьезно занимался классическим теннисом, трижды выигрывал первенство Санкт-Петербурга, а уже в студенческие годы мне удалось "доиграться" до КМС по волейболу. Со временем я действительно увлекся пляжным теннисом, отобрался в сборную России и стал ездить по турнирам. По-настоящему почувствовал, что могу стать первым, когда мы выиграли командный чемпионат мира в Москве в финале у сборной Италии в 2016 году. Мы тогда Российской сборной сотворили чудо, выиграв у первой пары и у первого микста мира в драматичнейших поединках. Но в те времена мне не хватало класса выигрывать несколько матчей подряд на высоком уровне. Но с годами и это пришло. Чтобы претендовать на первое место в мировом рейтинге потребовалось выйти в финалы трех крупнейших турниров и выиграть еще 10 других в течение года. Судьба первого места решалась на заключительном и самом крупном турнире в Арубе, где мне нужно было побеждать для исполнения мечты. В полуфинале мы установили рекорд длительности матча - 3 часа 17 минут и выиграли со счетом 3/6 7/6 7/6 (13-11), отыграв 4 матчбола! Финал состоялся уже через 2 часа и снова волевая победа! Честно говоря, до сих пор не могу окончательно поверить, что все получилось!Что тебе помогло научиться выигрывать несколько матчей подряд?Огромная тренировочная работа и, конечно, горький опыт поражений.Как тренируется и готовится к турнирам Никита Бурмакин?Нюансы тренировочного процесса я пока оставлю в секрете. Скажу только, что меня тренирует мой отец. Мне бы хотелось больше времени уделять физической подготовке. К сожалению из-за того, что приходится совмещать спорт с работой тренером, сил почти не остается.Кто ты: тренер или профессиональный игрок?В последние годы - конечно, игрок. По-другому побед не достичь. Все приоритеты расставлены на выступления. При этом к сожалению жизнь пляжных теннисистов в финансовом плане тяжела, даже у первых ракеток мира. О профессионализме остается только мечтать, пока держимся на большом энтузиазме и любви к спорту.У первой ракетки мира нет спонсоров, рекламных контрактов?Я всего один день первая ракетка мира, серьезных спонсоров пока нет. Я открыт к сотрудничеству, пляжный теннис активно развивается. На финале чемпионата мира в Италии присутствовало порядка 4 тысяч зрителей, а видео трансляция набрала около 50 тысяч просмотров. География турниров очень обширна и разнообразна - вся Европа, Россия, Америка, Карибы, Бразилия, Эквадор, ЮАР, Тайланд, Япония и многие другие страны. Международная федерация тенниса (ITF) активно работает над адаптацией картинки и формата игры для тв-трансляций.Кстати, Всемирные пляжные игры 2019 года в Сан-Диего будут транслироваться на NBC и NBC Olympics!Итальянская компания Rakkettone производит для меня именную ракетку под названием Davai. Мы вместе тщательно ее разрабатываем и совершенствуем, чтобы она была максимально хороша в игре. Я очень этим доволен, считаю, что у меня одна из самых продуманных и качественных ракеток в туре.Как менялось твое отношение к пляжному теннису по мере роста твоего рейтинга?Этот вид спорта мне сразу понравился. Конечно же вместе с развитием пляжного тенниса, вместе с ростом турниров, ростом призовых, ростом количества поездок, становилось все интереснее. Если бы не было такого развития, то в какой-то момент пришлось бы завязывать. Надеемся, что пляжный теннис будет показательным видом на Олимпиаде в 2024 году, а в 2028 войдет в программу Олимпиады! А в 2019 году основное внимание на первые всемирные пляжные игры в Сан-Диего, которые проводятся Ассоциацией Национальных Олимпийских комитетов (ANOC). Это важнейшее событие в нашей спортивной жизни и мы будем серьезно готовиться к борьбе за медали!Кто способствовал твоему развитию, как теннисиста?В первую очередь, мой отец, Геннадий Николаевич Бурмакин. Он меня тренировал с первого моего спортивного дня, научил быть спортсменом, расти и не сдаваться. Кстати, в день моего отъезда на турнир в Арубу мы с ним провели отличную тренировку.Благодарю Федерацию Тенниса России, особенно Шамиля Анвяровича Тарпищева и Дмитрия Владимировича Вихарева. Они поверили в новый вид спорта, дали ему зеленый свет и активно участвуют в развитии пляжного тенниса не только в нашей стране, но и во всем мире! На сегодняшний день у нас проходят важнейшие турниры: Командный Чемпионат Мира и один из крупнейших в туре турнир в Казани.Важнейшую роль сыграл Макаров Кирилл Геннадьевич, который открыл первый и несколько лет единственный крытый пляжный центр в нашей стране, Динамит, где тренировались и выступали многие члены сборных России по пляжному теннису, футболу и волейболу. В Петербурге, с чем нам особо повезло. Если бы он этого не сделал, я бы просто не начал играть. Сейчас Федерация тенниса Санкт-Петербурга поддерживает пляжный теннис и поставляет основу для сборной России.Просто чудеса сотворил со мной доктор Ринат Акбаров, с которым мы познакомились за 4 дня до моей первой и одной из главных побед на Командном Чемпионате Мира в Москве. Он тогда меня восстановил из невероятно плохого психо-физического состояния, после тяжелейшего проигрыша в Казани, помог правильно собраться и выиграть практически невозможные матчи у легенд пляжного тенниса. С тех пор мы с ним постоянно работаем, проводим реабилитацию и подготовку к новым стартам.Конечно же моим победам способствовали еще многие люди, каждого я помню и очень ценю!Расскажи о своем напарнике?Мой напарник на большей части турниров итальянец - Tommaso Giovannini. Он очень молод, но оказался оптимальным для меня сочетанием по стилю игры. Интересно отметить, я никогда не выступал на главных турнирах с топовыми игроками. Они все итальянцы, и играют друг с другом, стараются не пускать других. С Джованнини я начал играть, когда он был 120-м в мире. И вот доросли до того, что стали первым и вторым номером в мире с большим отрывом от остальных. Это особенно феноменальный результат.Что ты чувствовал во время полуфинала, когда у соперников (Benussi/Beccaccioli) были матчболы?Что мы все равно победим, так и получилось. Твоя первая мысль после окончания финала?Хотелось поблагодарить всех, кто поддерживал. В полуфинале мы истратили очень много сил. Финал игрался почти сразу - через 2 часа. Восстановиться было некогда: энергии, ни моральной, ни физической почти не осталось. На финале нам очень помогли русские болельщики и игроки. Они порою перекрикивали 3-тысячный стадион! Все безумно устали, но орали до последнего, срывая голоса. И мне это очень помогло, восполнило недостаток энергии, поэтому я сразу пошел всех благодарить. В общем было фантастически!На этот турнир на Арубе твоя первичная цель была стать первым в мире или выиграть этот турнир?Одно другого не исключало, но, конечно, мне было важнее стать первым в мире. Надо сказать, первым в мире я стал не выходя на корт. Потому что мне было достаточно, чтобы Ramos и Cramarossa проиграли раньше финала. Они это сделали во втором круге, поэтому нагрузка, стану я первым в мире, или не стану, спала сама собой. И дальше я всецело сосредоточился на выигрыше турнира.Каковы твои дальнейшие цели? Ты уже выиграл Командный и личный Чемпионаты мира, Чемпионат Европы, Казань, Арубу, стал первым в мире, что дальше?Всемирные пляжные игры в Сан-Диего! А касательно рейтинга, то, как говорят все бывшие первые ракетки мира - первым легче стать, чем удержаться. Поэтому сейчас новая задача - остаться на вершине. Ближайшая угроза - уже буквально через две недели на турнирах в ЮАР, где мой партнер (Джованнини) по слухам планирует сыграть с другим игроком в надежде меня обогнать в рейтинге. (Прим.: Никита Бурмакин заявлен на турнир в Южной Африке с итальянцем Никколо Страно. Джованнини на турнир все еще не заявлялся). На корте мы ведем спортивную игру, за кортом - стратегическую. Поэтому я всегда вынужден держать руку на пульсе.А также с течением времени будут сгорать очки за прошлогодние победы, их потребуется подтверждать новыми!Ты действительно чувствуешь себя первым в этом виде спорта на данный момент?Это сложно пока осознать. И вообще, о себе судить некорректно.  Но когда я играю на корте, я должен чувствовать себя самым сильным. Иначе не выиграть. А в остальном нужно смотреть рейтинг, статистику. Результат одиночного турнира (прим. Никита - победитель одиночного турнира на Арубе, где принимали участие все сильнейшие игроки) - все говорит за меня, так что надеюсь, что так и есть. И буду работать дальше!

30 Nov

Federica Bacchetta: "I just had a feeling to retire"

At Aruba Beach Tennis Open 2018 many sensations happened. Among them was a very big statement about retirement of world №2 female player - Italian Federica Bacchetta. There was a very emotional farewell ceremony for her at the central court after the final match. As I heard it - I thought that the one epoch of beach tennis is close to over. For me Federica is a really extraordinary player whose game style is the best performance of beach tennis itself. Besides she showed us a great example of attitude: respecting her opponents, being true friends with her ex-partners and team mates, staying honest, calm and supportive at the very bad match situations and never giving up. This interview you read is taken from the very best player of female beach tennis… well, in my opinion. When and how did you start to play beach tennis?When I was 14 years old, I was playing tennis and during the summer I did not like it to stay under the sun to do nothing and finally finished up with playing beach tennis with my friends. Who was your first partner and your first tournament?I was 15 years old and played with Cecilia Salimbeni my first IFBT tournament.Tell me about highlights in your career?There were many great moments! For sure 4 victories in World Championship.. each of these tournaments were special. Allso the victory at Aruba Beach Tennis Open 2017. And for sure when we (the Italian national team)  won the World Team Championship 2015 against Russia with the decisive mixed match where for Italy played Garavini and me! But I think that each tournament gave me a special emotion! Which match you consider as the best in your life?The best victory was this year at the World Championship because we made a great tournament with Giulia Gasparri. We played very strong matches including the final which was also very tough and at one moment seemed impossible to win but finally we made it!Also the Double Mix tournament at the World Team Championship 2015.What is your favorite tournament?For sure the World Championship in Cervia because I play at home and there are lots of people coming to support me! Also this year in Rio was really great!Who is your best partner ? Mixed partner?I suppose I was very lucky because in my career I had very long partnerships with 3 players with who we created amazing feeling inside and also outside the court. First was with Giulia Spazzoli. She was my first “love”. We played together for three years. And won the first World Championship in 2010. Also it was the first year when the players from different federation ( ITF and IFBT) started to play under the same roof (FIT and ITF).The second one was Sofia Cimatti. Together with her we also have been playing for three years, made a lot of battle and won a lot of tournaments together including the World Championship 2014. We also created a lovely friendship and she was my witness for the wedding. Finally Giulia Gasparri. We have been playing together during my last 2 years and I think that we made the best seasons ever. In 2017 we won Italian, European and World Championships. And in 2018 we made the same except the European. Where we were the Runner ups. I think that we have written a beautiful page in female beach tennis.About the Double Mix, for sure my best partner is Marco Garavini, we played together for 10 years and together we won Italian, European and World Team Championship!What do you like to play more: doubles or mixed?I love to play both. But for sure I played more Double than Mix!When you firstly thought about retirement?At the end of 2017 I was thinking about my retirement. We spoke with Giulia Gasparri and my husband/ coach Michele Folegatti and I decided to continue one more year because deep insideI had more energy for spending. But I thought that I would be my last year and during and at the end of each tournament in 2018 I had a different sensation. I was thinking that maybe it could be the last one. And I felt that it is good like this!What is the reason of your retirement? And why you decided exactly Aruba to be your last tournament?I decided to retire at the first place because I just felt it. In your life some decisions are just inside you. You feel that this is a good choice. Right now it became really stressful to play beach tennis at a high level. You have to travel, have to organize the work at home, you have to play each tournament for having points to be in the fourth seeds. After many years I need a rest a little bit, I need to find time to spend with my husband without beach tennis. But I want to continue to train. I don’t want to stop, because maybe I can play some tournaments close to my home. But now I don’t want to have a commitment for all the season and that the reason of why in September I spoke with Giulia Gasparri and told her that she could be free for the next year. And we decide to play the last tournament in Aruba. And really it was the best choice ever. In Aruba they organized an amazing tribute for me, I couldn't stop crying. it was incredible! And after I heard that my husband asked them to make this happen. And then I couldn’t  stop to thank him, Aruba organizers and all the people that joined this wonderful moment!Do we expect for you to be back?Maybe.. right now I don’t really know. But for sure I want to continue to stay in the beach tennis world because it is my life. Maybe like a coach. Or maybe again like a player in the future. We will see!!

22 Nov

Sjoerd De Vries. About the success of «Aruba».

In 2018 the greatest beach tennis event Aruba Beach Tennis Open has its first big anniversary - 10 years. And yet nobody in the world could beat or copy its success. In this interview, one of the main organizers Sjoerd De Vries shares few secrets of past, present and future of the tournament just from his office above the central court.How the things started?We started 10 years ago and firstly played beach tennis with the paddles before we have changed to beach tennis rackets. What happened is that we connected the sport of beach tennis with the party atmosphere just from the very beginning. It wasn’t someone’s choice, it just happened because we were playing at “Moomba beach” which is the party place with a restaurant on the beach. And that is where we organized an event and it appeared as such a successful formula that we kept that party part. Everybody had such a nice time: drink and dance.Next year we made a party even bigger and during the matches, we started to use DJ. The audience really loved it, but it was strange for the pro players because we were the onliest ones who were doing it. And they didn’t like it. But then they saw the reactions and how many people were coming. So they agreed. We never stepped away from that formula. And now we are very happy to see that this way of organizing beach tennis events is converted into regulated step. Even at the higher levels of ITF or Olympic committee they like it, they see this is a successful formula.How you would organize an event if it wasn’t in Aruba, but let’s say Northern Europe?I am from the Netherlands, so I can relate to the atmosphere there. Automatically it would have more serious stuff, but it doesn’t mean that people in the Netherlands don’t like a party atmosphere. They love it. And if it’s offered to them in the right way, they will enjoy it just as much as we do here. Actually, beach volley proved it. Beach volley events in northern countries are doing amazing. People go there for the same reason: “oh yeah, we can do a little party”. But what I would do? I would try to build a Caribbean atmosphere in the northern countries. Try to implement more to get the feeling you are escaping the reality of northern countries. Put fake palapas... I would call it “driftwood style events”.Does that mean “Aruba” creates the style of beach tennis?I wouldn’t say so, but that would be a great honor. I do think beach tennis needs a certain standard format of the events. And we would be very happy to share our knowledge and our experience with other tournament organizers around the world. Because we do know what is working and what is not. We have a lot of experience. And we learn by trial and error.What are the examples of things that don’t work? You can’t force things. You always have to fill the audience. If the audience doesn’t want to party you can’t make a party. When we are sitting at the central court and the crowd is not reacting, we slow down automatically. And then you wait for the score and then when the score is getting more exciting than you can go.So you can’t just put a DJ. We saw it in other events, that tried to copy Aruba. So there was a DJ he starts at 10 o’clock and plays music super loud. And he starts to create a party atmosphere at 11 am, for example. Of course, it’s a very extreme example, but you can not - you have to build. And our DJs know it. We work with 5 different DJs cause they cannot play longer than 4 hours, they are exhausted. It’s a job: they constantly are trying to find the right songs. There is a whole playlist for our DJ during each day. He is very experienced and he knows which song to play and when and we are always in contact. Because during the match it can happen. “Now Brazil is in the front, do we have the Brazilian song ready?  - yes. - Do we have everything ready? - Yes”. And we change over. So he has to skip the interrupt the song because we have only 90 seconds. So with the military precision we kind of orchestra this party. And that’s the whole thing. By the way, we have a producer here, so nothing is random, we know exactly what to do and when. Of course, it takes time and money, but this makes the difference between “we had a great night” and “that was ok”. When we started 10 years ago we were just lucky. But now we kind of control the party.Which events did inspire you? Beach volley and basketball, I’ve been to the basketball stadiums to watch how they pump the crowd. So the American sports the American way of representation sports. In tennis you have Wimbledon and you have Us Open. I prefer Us Open. Because it’s a show element and we try to implement it to beach tennis. In basketball is not quite. I still strongly believe that beach tennis players should play with a lot of noise, interferences, and flashing cameras. If you used to it it doesn’t matter what happens around. You play and you focus on the ball. And you can play a perfect game. You don’t need quietness al the time. Sometimes quietness can very exciting. When it’s a match point, I love to put the music down and then suddenly the silence becomes very powerful, the most powerful of everything. You can see we can throw a very good party but when it’s a really important point 2-3 times per night it will be totally silent here. When we are here with 3000 people and it’s silent it is super powerful.Tell me about other tournaments you are involved in? A few years ago we spent a lot of time in the USA. Taking part in organizing events. It had a circus format: Every weekend in a different city was an event. We had a big truck with all the equipment there, and it was amazing. And the Beach Tennis USA is the best production team I’ve ever seen. But the problem was that there were no facilities. The show came to town, we organized big event, the 15 courts, so many people on the beach, everybody came to play.  But when the circus left town after the day, and people wanted to play there were no clubs, no courts. And that is the secret of success of Beach Tennis Aruba. Is the club. We have 15 courts and we organize daily tournaments. If they start doing that in the USA this will become huge in America.Right now we organizing 2 big events on the field: Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Aruba, our tournament. But also we are in touch with Dutch federation. There are few events in the Netherlands that we are helping with sponsors. And we always helping other organizers with advice, we have a huge amount of emails: how to do this and that. For example, now Montreal is launching the tour and we are consulting them.Are you waiting for Arubian winning Aruba like Wimbledon waited for Englishman? Yes but that’s gonna take a while. Aksel is good but he is not top-4 yet, he is top-15. Now we are working with the kids and we have a great plan with the tennis federation. Because we are really thinking. Our goal is to go to the Olympic Games in 2024 hopefully as a demonstration sport in Paris. So we are trying to align it with ITF to go with it. And that would be the biggest push for the sport, we can imagine.What about ITF?ITF is very important. We have hate-love relations with ITF because they have many rules for us. But on the other hand, it’s such an important thing that we have a structure. Their credibility of the organization and their point to grow this sport, we can not do Beach tennis without ITF and we don’t want to. Our statement is that we are very committed with ITF right now as Aruba beach Tennis Open. Even if we would like to see things differently sometimes. We always have to have discussions, which we have with ITF and it goes very well, they are listening to us and so we feel respectful in this way.What kind of respect do you mean?Before we didn’t care that much about PRO players. At the very beginning, I also was a PRO and I never liked this “prima-donna style”. My point of view was that everybody: pros and amateurs should exist together as equals. “If you wanna play - come. If you don’t want to - don’t come”. And then Johan and Mark tried to explain to take athletes more serious. And we started to do more for the pros: hospitality, prize money. My philosophy was always: let’s invest in prize money so pros come to the island, but now I understand that that is not enough. So now we are trying more to make things better for the pro players. For example this year we have the players lounge, we have 2 qualified doctors on site and a medical team with all the equipment for all cases, physio, massage…And I hope also in other tournaments ITF is going to put it as a standard: you are going to organize a nice G1 tournament, then you need this and this. And the players will benefit from it. With the big organization behind the sport, it will grow in general and players will benefit.But what is more important for you?The heart of our event is all additional tournaments: amateurs, juniors, seniors...People come from over the world to play. And during the night they enjoy the show on the central court. And that is our another formula of success: pros need an audience and people need the show.What did you change since last year and what are the plans for next year?More prize money and this we want to continue. We want to earn the credibility for the audience. So they see this is not a silly game anymore”. Now it’s 65000$ maybe next year we have 85000$, maybe in 2 years, we have 100 000$ and so on. More players will come over to the sport, may be from Beach volley, may be from tennis.The capacity of the stadium is bigger this year. Next year we want to move to a different location where we can make even a bigger stadium in a bigger village. The place we will hold in secret. It won’t be an Eagle beach, but the event will be bigger. This year we invested a lot of in a quality of the event. And next year we will invest in quantity.Also maybe we have some more commentators joining the team, like Brazilian. For example this year we had more Russian players so what automatically happened is that DJ looked for Russian songs, imagine a native commentator.How many people are involved in an organizational team? 40 of us main organizers. Than we have the security, the electricity team, the kitchen, the lights, the production team, the bar etc. In total, I think more than 200 people involvedWhen we will be able to watch the final of the Aruba Beach Tennis Open on TV?That is what we are working on right now. We have an interest from a producer which is making a film here on site and he is interested to try to sell the concept of beach Tennis to a major chanel and we will see if it works or not. Actually, it’s a whole new world, a global platform, that we don’t know much about. That why we are trying to connect to people and focusing really hard trying to make good decisions. And ITF here can play a big role too. They have all the connection within the international platform. They have 45 broadcasters where they have access to. So if we stay with ITF they can bring us that platform, they can bring an international sponsor.

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