MOSCOW: The recent success of Russian women at Wimbledon and Roland Garros has turned tennis into the latest fashion here, as parents storm tennis schools with the hope of one day seeing their offspring win big.
“Our players' success turns parents' heads. They think all it takes is their child swinging a racket and a million dollars will be as good as in their pockets,” sighed Vladimir Kamelzon, chief of the Russian Tennis Federation's trainers' council and director of a private tennis school in Moscow.
