Tursunov said that Kontaveit’s career was not a surprise for him

A well-known coach, former Russian tennis player Dmitry Tursunov, commented on the end of the career of Anette Kontaveit.

Former second racket of the world Kontaveit announced his retirement from sports due to degeneration of the intervertebral disc. During her career, the Estonian has won six WTA tournaments and reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 2020. Kontaveit is 27 years old.

Tursunov coached the Estonian tennis player from August 2021 to June 2022.

– Many players have some kind of innate physiological moments that need to be worked on. For example, Andrei Kuznetsov suffered from a hip joint throughout his career. So this is a common situation. She had a fitness coach with whom she worked for a long time. I didn’t go deep into these situations. The task of a tennis coach is to outline the task, and a specialist in this direction tries to implement it with the help of physical training and recovery processes. Some players are allowed to get involved in such moments or expect it from the coach, some are not.

I didn’t know about this particular problem. During a couple of tournaments, her back ached, but this is normal for all players. This is a professional sport, you are always on the edge of your capabilities. Almost everyone ends up with an injury in one way or another.

Her decision came as no surprise to me. She’s been talking to the press for months now that she has a back problem. As for whether she realized her potential, the question here is whether she could have played better, but this is a very subjective opinion. She had an overall successful career. A year before becoming the second, she was 30th. Second place – a successful career. The main thing is that the athlete himself be satisfied with his career, and everything else is theory, ”Tursunov quotes Metaratings.ru.