Russian_Tennis_Federation

Russian Tennis Federation

Russian Tennis Federation

Tennis organization in Russia


The Russian Tennis Federation (Russian: Федерация тенниса России, romanized: Federatsiia tennisa Rossii) is the national governing body for tennis in Russia. It was founded in 1989 as the All-Russian Tennis Association and reorganized under its current name in 2002.[1] The federation serves as the successor to the Tennis Federation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (1959-1989) and the Tennis Federation of the Soviet Union (1959-93), which was previously known as the All-Union Tennis Section (1929-1959).

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History

Arthur Davidovich McPherson (1870–1919), a native of Petersburg, was the founder[when?] 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.

2022 suspension

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).[3] 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.[3]

Chairpersons

Main climate-related parts — because the Extreme North allows indoor tennis courts only — of the Russian Empire (Imperial Russia) with population (125.6 mln according to the 1897 census)
  1. European Russia (50 Governorates: 93.4 mln) (74.4%)
  2. Congress Poland (10 Governorates: 9.4 mln) (7.4%)
  3. Caucausus Krai (11 Governorates and Oblasts: 9.2 mln) (7.1%)
  4. Middle Asia (9 Governorates: 7.7 mln) (6.1%)
  5. Siberia (9 Governorates: 5.7 mln) (4.5%)
  6. Other (Census-eligible citizens abroad and in the Grand Duchy of Finland: 40.661)[4] (0.03%)
Main climate-related (the Extreme North allows indoor tennis courts only) parts of the Russian Federation (Russia) with population (144 mln in 2018)
  1. European part of Russia (European Russia: 110 mln) (76.4%)
  2. Asian part of Russia (North Asia: 34 mln), the Extreme North mostly (23.6%)

All-Russia Union of Lawn Tennis Clubs

  • Arthur McPherson [ru] (Jun 1908—1917), first chairman, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1919 (official version — died from typhoid in one of Moscow prisons).[5][6][4]

All-Union Tennis Section (1929—1959)

Tennis Federation of the USSR

Tennis Federation of the RSFSR

  • (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)

  • Nikita Mikhalkov (1989—1995), chairman → 1st president
  • Yaroslav Kalagursky (1995—1999), president; (1999—present), honorary president
  • Shamil Tarpishchev (1999—2001), president[9]

Russian Tennis Federation

(consists of 74 Regional federations)[11]

Vice-presidents[11]
  1. Bakulev, Vladimir
  2. Bokarev, Andrey
  3. Gordeev, Alexander
  4. Kafelnikov, Yevgeny
  5. Lazarev, Vladimir
  6. Myskina, Anastasia
  7. Panteleev, Evgeny
  8. Selivanenko, Alexey
  9. Vikharev, Dmitry
  10. Yumasheva, Polina
  11. (Secretary-General) Shatkhin, Yakov
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Juniors

16-and-under teams

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Junior GS singles finalists by year

Local Boys' titles
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Junior GS singles titles by country

17 
 Soviet Union
16 
 Russia
2 
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Junior GS singles runners-up by country

19 
 Russia
15 
 Soviet Union
2 
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Junior GS doubles champions by year

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Junior GS doubles titles by country

20 
 Russia
4 
 Soviet Union
3 
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See also


References

  1. "Charter". Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  2. "Russia-Ukraine War: Sporting bodies come down heavy on Russia". cnbctv18.com. Associated Press. 8 March 2022.
  3. "General summary for the Empire of the results of the development of data from the First General Population Census, conducted on January 28, 1897, volume 1" (PDF). static.statmuseum.ru (in French and Russian). Museum: The Origin of Russian Social Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  4. "Russian Tennis Federation". Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  5. "Макферсон Артур Давыдович" [Transliteration: Makferson Artur Davydovich]. smsport.ru. Contemporary Sports Museum. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  6. "Бобров Георгий Николаевич" [Bobrov Georgy Nikolayevich]. bessmertnybarak.ru. Bessmertny Barak. Retrieved 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. "Федерация тенниса СССР" [Tennis Federation of the USSR]. sport-strana.ru (in Russian). 28 July 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  8. "Shamil Tarpishchev". olympic.ru. Russian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 November 2021. Chairman of the Tennis Federation of the USSR (1991) and of the CIS (1992)
  9. "Региональные федерации" [Regional Federations]. tennis-russia.ru (in Russian). Russian Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  10. "Transliter 3.0 [for the Russian language] — Different Standards". eugigufo.net. Eugi Gufo. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  11. "GoTranscript". gotranscript.com. US-DE, United States of America; GB-HRW, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: GoTranscript Inc. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  12. "Региональные федерации". tennis-russia.ru (in Russian). RTF. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  13. "Родители выдающегося теннисиста Марата Сафина из села Рыбушкино" [The parents of the outstanding tennis player, Marat Safin, are from the village of [Bolshoe, lit. Big] Rybushkino [ru]]. rybushkin.ucoz.ru (in Russian). The Village of Rybushkino Official Site. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 20 September 2024. The last time the world tennis star visited the Nizhny Novgorod Region was in 2002
  14. "Макрон изменил синий цвет на французском флаге. Но этого никто не заметил". Meduza (in Russian). 15 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021. In 1991-1993, the colours of the Russian flag were designated as white, blue, and red. But in 1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin changed them to white, blue and red, and also changed the ratio of width to length from 1:2 to 2:3
  15. "#ffd700 color description : Pure (or mostly pure) yellow". colorhexa.com. ColorHexa. Retrieved 3 August 2023.



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