International tennis tournament Kremlin Cup. Medvedev and Khachanov can count on victory

How to get to the VTB Kremlin Cup 2017 for free?

The main tennis tournament this fall is preparing to welcome guests

This summer, VTB Bank launched the “Our Favorite Client” campaign, within which clients of the group’s banks will be able to visit for free tennis tournament"VTB Kremlin Cup". It will be held from October 14 to 22 at the Olimpiysky sports complex and will be the 28th.

From October 14 to October 19, upon presentation of VTB cards (including Muscovite, VTB24 and Pochta Bank social cards), their owners will be able to receive a free ticket to one of the matches. One card entitles you to receive one ticket. But there are other special conditions! When purchasing four tickets for one date, you receive a 25% discount on the entire package. To activate it on the website, you must select the “Family” package. There are no restrictions on ticket categories and tournament dates - you can even purchase tickets for the final!

In addition, if purchasing tickets for family and friends, the client will be able to receive a 15% discount. Discount tickets can be purchased on the purchase websites www.kremlincup.ru and www.parter.ru (in special field you must enter the first six digits of VTB and VTB24 bank cards).

In the final match of 2016, Svetlana Kuznetsova became the strongest among women (for the second time in a row, but previously only Anastasia Myskina managed to excel in the tournament for two years in a row). In the men's singles, the victory was won by the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta, who beat the Italian Fabio Fognini in the final. This was the second title in the tennis player's career - at the end of August he won the tournament in Winston-Salem (USA).

"VTB Kremlin Cup" is the first annual international professional tournament in the history of Russia, which unites both men's and women's competition. Every year the VTB Kremlin Cup is held with the support of the Moscow Government and the Moscow Department of Sports and Tourism. Previously, the sponsor of the Kremlin Cup tournament was the Bank of Moscow, which on May 10, 2016, as a result of its merger, became part of VTB Bank. The Bank of Moscow has supported the tournament since 1998.

Location: Moscow, Russia

Time spending: 15.10.2018 - 21.10.2018

Coating: hard (indoors)

Prize fund: $912,680

Total prize fund: $992,670

Tournament description:

Buy tickets to the XXVI International Tennis Tournament Kremlin Cup (VTB Kremlin Cup), 2018 right now!

Major tennis international tournament is the Kremlin Cup 2018. Venue - Moscow, sports complex"Olympic". The championships are held in doubles and singles among women and men. Men's competitions have a category of ATP 250, ATP Tour, and women's tournament BTA category.

The founder of the Kremlin Cup was the Swiss businessman Sasson Kakshouri. At first the tournament was held only among men, but six years later competitions began to be held among women. Men's and women's competitions took place at different times, but over time they were combined and they began to take place within one week.

Thanks to the unification, this championship was able to become the first tournament in the history of tennis in which competitions of opposite sexes were held simultaneously. The winners of the tournament in singles are the hosts: Evgeny Kafelnikov, Andrei Cherkasov, Alexander Volkov, Anna Kournikova, Anastasia Myskina. Of the 22 tournaments held, Russian tennis players won 14.

Maxim Mirny from Belarus succeeded in pairs performances at the Kremlin Cup four times, Paul Harhuis (Holland) three times, Nadezhda Petrova (Russia) won the women’s pairs three times, Natalia Zvereva (Belarus) and Lisa Raymond (USA) won two each.

Traditionally, the women's bracket of the tournament has more status than the men's. In addition to Halep, who received a special invitation to the tournament, three more representatives of the top 10 world rankings came to Moscow. These are Czech Karolina Pliskova (6th position), American Sloane Stephens (8th) and Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens (10th).

A traditionally large number of Russians will perform in the main draw of the tournament - last year's tournament finalist Daria Kasatkina, as well as Ekaterina Makarova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Anna Kalinskaya and Anastasia Potapova. Halep has already secured a place in the second round, where her opponent will be the winner of the match between Pavlyuchenkova and Ajla Tomljanovic from Australia. Kasatkina will play with Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko in the first round, and her meeting with Halep could take place in the quarter finals. The Romanian has not competed recently due to a back injury, but decided to get practice in Moscow the day before final tournament Women's Tennis Association.

One of the most famous tennis players in the world, Maria Sharapova, will not perform at the tournament. In mid-September, it became known that the Russian woman, who was initially on the list of participants in the tournament, ended the season early for health reasons. It was noted that she could attend the finals of the competition as a guest of honor. However, according to the head of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpishchev, this is unlikely. “Maria decided to start preparing for the next season. He will be important, he will qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, and Maria wants to compete there,” said the head of the FTR TASS.

Medvedev and Khachanov can count on victory

The men's tournament may be of less status than the women's, but the leading players will play in it Russian tennis players- Daniil Medvedev, Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev. This year Medvedev has achieved particular success, having already won three tournaments.

The first seed is Italian Marco Cecchinato, who is 21st in the world rankings, one position ahead of Medvedev and six ahead of Khachanov. However, taking into account the home walls, it is Khachanov and Medvedev that can be called the main favorites of the tournament. “After a significant break, Russian tennis players in the men’s section can well count on victory,” Tarpishchev noted.

Khachanov and Medvedev will start the tournament from the second round. Therefore, the most interesting match The first round can be called a meeting between Rublev and the fifth racket of the tournament, Australian Nick Kyrgios, who is known for his scandalous antics on the court.

Last year's winner VTB Cup Kremlin" Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, seeded sixth at the tournament, will start the match against Egor Gerasimov from Belarus.

Tournament history

The debut Kremlin Cup was held in 1990, becoming the first professional tennis tournament in the USSR; a women's tournament has also been held since 1996. The first winner of the cup was the Soviet tennis player Andrei Cherkasov; Yevgeny Kafelnikov held the trophy more often than others - five times in a row (1997−2001). Among women, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Myskina and Frenchwoman Mary Pierce won twice. Last year, the winner among men was Dzumhur, who beat Lithuanian Richardas Berankis in the final. The women's title was won by German Julia Gerges, who defeated Kasatkina.

The VTB Kremlin Cup will be held until October 21 on the courts of the Moscow Olimpiysky sports complex. The prize fund of the tournament is $1,869,301. The organizers consider the current tournament a good rehearsal on the eve of the 30th anniversary competition, which will be held in 2019 in the new arena, since the Olympic Stadium will be closed for reconstruction.