Tennis press conferences on the part of uselessness can only be compared with the so-called "open days" in the football team. The only difference is in the emotional background. If the players run away and hide, although a lot of questions are prepared for them, then the tennis players, on the contrary, are extremely open, although there is absolutely nothing to ask them.
- Oh, chur, I'll sit by the wall! - exclaimed Anna Chakvetadze, barely went to the press center. - Oh, and my tablet is not there. I sit in the middle.
“Do you want us to rearrange the tablets?” - Shamil Tarpishchev asked her.
But Chakvetadze has already reconciled. On the edge of the village, Elena Vesnina, trying to understand the profitability of this position. But she didn’t figure it out.
- Well, how do you like the weather? Mood? What are your feelings? - asked Svetlana Kuznetsova, who drank water from a brought bottle with frequent sips.
Sveta smiled and answered quite predictably:
- The mood is wonderful, the weather is great, the team is perfect.
There was no information in this. One sheer joy.
It should be noted here that at a press conference one of the reporters handed the girls flowers. Just.
- You are so joyful, with flowers ... - turned to Nadezhda Petrova, who got up and wanted to leave the hall (she had urgent things to do).
“And let me answer you along the way,” the athlete suggested.
- Here you have a guide and appeared, - said Kuznetsova with envy in her voice.
Chakvetadze and Vesnina were already struggling to hold onto chairs.
- The men's team takes away a lot of your strength. Have you come to your senses after the Davis Cup match? - asked Shamil Tarpishchev.
“I still can’t move away,” Tarpishchev agreed.
“The boys are straining, and we are relaxing,” said Chakvetadze, glancing fervently at Vesnina.
- You play soccer with men. And with the girls what? - someone tried to find out professional secrets from Tarpishchev. But he was again not given an answer.
“We are engaged in freestyle wrestling,” said Kuznetsova.
Inexplicably, from all this fuss, it became clear that the girls will attend the match “Spartak” - “Zenith”, which will take place in the evening in Luzhniki.
“We are only afraid to go with Sveta,” Chakvetadze burst out. - She will cheer for Petersburgers.
“Not true,” objected Kuznetsova. - For those who play better.
“You're from St. Petersburg,” Anna marveled. - Probably, for the “Zenith” and you will worry.
“For them,” Svetlana agreed after a moment of thought.
“And then she will enter the field, replacing the goalkeeper,” Tarpishchev announced.
“And I’ll see what will happen in the other team,” the tennis player said.
Clearly, the Spaniards will tear this weekend.
Alexey Shevchenko