Shamil Tarpishchev biography. Shamil Tarpishchev: “I have two families – a tennis family and an ordinary one. I can sleep even standing

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President of the All-Russian Tennis Association Shamil Anvyarovich Tarpishchev was born on March 7, 1948 in Moscow into a working-class family. Shamil was raised mainly by his grandmother. Since childhood, he has been involved in sports: he played bandy and football. I played tennis from the age of eight; his first coach was Igor Vsevolodov.

After graduating from high school, Tarpishchev decided to go to study at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, but soon took his documents and entered the Institute of Physical Education (now the Russian State Academy physical culture), who graduated in 1970.

In 1962-1970 he played for the DSO "Trud", in 1970-1974 - for CSKA. He was a member of the USSR national tennis team that participated in the Davis Cup.

Best results in competitions: winner of the Sochi international tournament in singles (1968), doubles (1967) and mixed (1968), winner of the tournament of the strongest tennis players in Moscow (1968) and the 10 strongest tennis players of the USSR (1972-1973) in singles, winner of the Sigmund Memorials in singles (1976) and doubles (1969-1970), the international tournament in Zinnowitz (GDR) and the World Championship among railway tennis players in singles and doubles (1970), winner of the Summer International Tournament in pairs (1972).

Three times he was among the ten strongest tennis players of the USSR (1970-1973); the best place- fourth (1972).

At the age of 25, Shamil Tarpishchev had to finish sports career. He has been coaching since 1974; was a coach, senior coach of the MGS DSO "Dynamo", senior coach of the USSR national team (1974-1991), CIS (1992) and Russia (since 1997). Under the leadership of Tarpishchev, Soviet tennis players won 26 gold medals at the European Championships (1974-1983), became semi-finalists of the Davis Cup (1974, 1976) and the Federation Cup (1978-1979), and finalists of the Royal Cup (1981).

In 1983, Shamil Tarpishchev was the captain of the European team in the Asia - Europe match.

Captain national team in the Davis Cup (1974-1992 and from 1997 to the present). Under the leadership of Tarpishchev, the Russian team won the Davis Cup twice (2002, 2006).

Captain of the team in the Fed Cup (1978-1980 and from 2000 to the present).

In 1992-1994 Tarpishchev was an adviser to the president Russian Federation in Physical Culture and Sports, Chairman of the Coordination Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the President of Russia (1993-1997).

From 1992 to July 1994, Tarpishchev headed the National Sports Foundation (NSF). He was the Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Physical Education and Tourism (1994-1996).

Tarpishchev is an adviser to the mayor of Moscow on sports and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kremlin Cup (since 1996).

In 2002, Tarpishchev became a member of the presidium of the Russian Presidential Council for Physical Culture and Sports, chairman of the commission for developing priority areas public policy in the field of physical education and sports, as well as the strategy for the development of sports in Russia.

By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 26, 2007, Shamil Taripishchev was appointed a member of the newly formed Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of physical culture and sports, sports highest achievements, preparation and conduct XXII winter Olympic Games and XI Winter Paralympic Games 2014 in Sochi.

Shamil Tarpishchev - Honored Trainer of the USSR (1985), Honored Trainer of the RSFSR (1981). Since 1994 he has been a member of the executive committee Olympic Committee Russia, since 1996 he has been a member of the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee.

President of the Russian Tennis Federation. Associate Professor of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture, Honorary Professor of the Moscow International high school business "MIRBIS", academician of the International Academy of Informatization, full member of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement.

Since 1994 - member of the editorial board of the Tennis+ magazine.

Tarpishchev awarded state awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2008).

Tarpishchev is divorced and has two sons: Amir (born in 1987) and Philip (born in 1994). The children live with him - during the divorce, Tarpishchev and his wife came to the consensus that their sons should be raised by their father. The eldest son studies at an American college in Moscow, the youngest plays tennis at the Olympian. Shamil Tarpishchev lives in the same house with his sister Elmira, her husband Rinat and niece Aliya. He considers family to be the most important thing in his life.

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Private bussiness

Shamil Anvyarovich Tarpishchev (70 years old) born in Moscow into a Tatar family. His parents were from the village of Tatar Yunki in Mordovia. In Moscow they worked at the Znamya Truda aircraft plant.

Since childhood, Shamil was actively involved in sports, played football in the summer, and went to the bandy section in the winter. In 1956, due to an injury to football training came to tennis. However, he did not give up football, the young athlete was even invited to the double team of Dynamo Moscow and others professional teams. He also earned money from football, replacing his father in the factory team.

He said: “From the age of sixteen, I played as a substitute for the Kulon plant and at the same time for the Banner of Labor, for my father’s workshop. He had a chervonets per week, which was considered decent money at that time. Once there was a factory championship, and I scored eleven goals in seven matches. The trade union committee came to present my father with a cup as top scorer, and he was already retired then. So I was declassified!”

Tarpishchev's first tennis coach was Igor Vsevolodov, then Viktor Lundyshev, who died in a car accident in 1962, took over. After this, as Tarpishchev recalled, he was “virtually left without a mentor.”

“There seemed to be a lot of trainers, but they all had their own students. And they dealt with me on a residual basis. It turned out that I trained on my own for almost the rest of my life. Maybe that’s why he became a coach himself,” said the specialist.

From 1962 to 1970 he played for the children's sports society "Trud". At the age of 17, he won his first major victory - he won the international tournament in Sochi in singles and mixed doubles, and a year later, in 1966, he passed the standard for master of sports.

After graduating from school, Tarpishchev entered the Institute of Physical Education (Russian State Academy of Physical Culture).

During his studies, he grew noticeably as a tennis player. So, if in his first year he took 64th place among best athletes USSR, then a year later he was already in 20th place, in the third year - in 8th.

In 1968 he won the Moscow Star Tournament, in 1969-1970 - the Sigmund Memorial in pairs, and in 1976 he won this memorial in singles.

After graduating from the institute in 1970, he was called up to military service, passed it in CSKA (until 1974). During his service, he played with Marshal Andrei Grechko, General Dmitry Lelyushenko and other high ranks. At the same time, he continued to compete.

In 1972, he won the Summer International Tournament as a pair, and at the same time reached 4th - the highest place in the ranking of Soviet tennis players in his career.

At the same time, according to him, he existed autonomously in the national team, experiencing difficulties in traveling to international competitions.

He recalled: “There were few trips abroad then, everyone was lobbied by their coach, but there was no one to stand up for me. I made my way only thanks to the spirit of contradiction.”

In 1974 Tarpshchev switched to coaching work, he was immediately appointed head coach of the USSR national team. Led the national team for 17 years, until the collapse Soviet Union.

In 1978-1980 he was the captain of the team at the women's Fed Cup, and since 1974 - the mentor of the men's Davis Cup team. Under his leadership, Soviet tennis players from 1974 to 1983 won 26 gold medals at the European Championships, reached the finals of the Royal Cup and the semi-finals of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup.

In 1978, Tarpishchev also led the country's women's team. In 1978-1979, his players reached the semi-finals of the Federation Cup. In the 2000s, the team won this cup four times (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008).

In 1991, he was elected president of the USSR Tennis Federation, then headed the CIS Tennis Federation, which soon dissolved. In 1996, he became the head of the All-Russian Tennis Association (since 2002 - the Russian Tennis Federation).

In 1992-1994 he was an adviser to President Boris Yeltsin on physical culture and sports, his personal trainer in tennis.

In 1994-1996 he headed the government committee on physical culture and sports.

From 1997 to 2000, he served as adviser to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov on sports.

In the 2000s, he was a member of the Presidential Sports Council, as well as the organizing committee of the Sochi Games.

In 2002, the Russian team under his leadership won the Davis Cup for the first time, and won the Fed Cup in 2004 and 2005.

Tarpishchev trained several generations of world-class tennis players, including Evgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin, Maria Sharapova, Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva. Kafelnikov, Safin and Sharapova were the first rackets in the world at different times.

In 2016, he was re-elected as President of the Russian Tennis Federation until 2020.

Shamil Tarpishchev at the "Legends of Tennis" tournament

AGN "Moscow"

What is he famous for?

President of the Russian Tennis Federation, for a long time — Main coach, captain of the men's and women's national teams. The transformations in domestic tennis that Tarpischev carried out starting in the 1970s (supervising national teams, attracting sponsors, organizing tournaments, etc.) allowed Russian team become one of the strongest in the world. His students Evgeny Kafelnikov, Maria Sharapova and Marat Safin became the first rackets in the world.

In the 1990s, Tarpishchev not only led domestic tennis, but also oversaw all sports in the country - first as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin, then as the head of the government committee on physical culture and sports.

What you need to know

In 1992, on the initiative of Tarpishchev, the National Sports Fund was created, designed to earn money for this industry. Soon the NSF was exempt from paying taxes and customs duties on all sporting goods imported to Russia, then received the right to duty-free import of tobacco and alcohol products and the export of strategic resources.

The fund quickly became a monopolist in the import market of cigarettes and alcohol. In 1994, Tarpishchev transferred leadership of the organization to his deputy, Boris Fedorov. Criminal scandals related to the fund already occurred under his leadership.

Direct speech

About joining as a coach (“Sport Express»): “When I turned 25, Dmitry Ionovich Prokhorov, head of the international sports relations department of the USSR Sports Committee - by the way, the father of Mikhail Prokhorov - offered to become the senior coach of the national team. He went with us to the Davis Cup match in Romania as the head of the delegation. The team then included Metreveli, Kakulia, Likhachev and me. We lost 2:3, although I was not allowed on the court. And on the plane, Sergei Likhachev began to make fun of me: they say, tell me what is being done wrong in our national team. I got excited and gave a whole monologue. Apparently, Prokhorov liked what he heard. He offered me a position twice, I refused. For the third time he warned: “This is the last sentence. Agree, they won’t let you play anyway.” Only after that did I break down.”

About men's and women's tennis (“TVNZ", October 2017):

— Why is our women's tennis better than men's?

- Well, it's very simple. Our women are generally the strongest in the world, in all areas. But seriously, girls are easier to train. The result is achieved faster. For girls, it takes three to four years to become professionals; for guys, it takes six to seven years. The rotation in the rankings for girls is faster: those who do not quickly make it into the elite leave the race, get married, and take care of housework. And if a guy starts playing, then he’s on the court until he’s 32 years old. And the third point: girls play at an intensity of 24-25 beats per minute, it is easier for them to find a sparring partner for training from the same men. And for us Safin played 29 beats per minute. Where can he find good sparring? You need to hold two against him!

— How much does it cost to raise a tennis player?

— A junior with a team, with coaches, support staff — it’s about 50 thousand dollars a year. If we talk about professionals, then a girls’ team with trips to tournaments costs about 170 thousand a year, a guy’s team costs about 230 thousand.

About doping (program "Posner", February 2018, quoted bySovsport.ru): “The issue of doping is a matter of general culture. It’s still like this: what the coach gives to the athlete, that’s what he drinks. Now we need to think about the children. The world will wait to see where we fail and where we can be pricked. This is not a one day process. In the West, an athlete will not drink anything without knowing - he must know what he is drinking. We don’t have that.”

About politics ("Sport Express»):

- What did I teach you? political career?

- You need to be independent, one hundred percent. Self-possessed and patient - these qualities are also required in sports. It is better not to speak out on controversial issues. Opponents begin to find fault not with the essence of your speech, but with individual words. If he remained silent, he deprived them of the opportunity to catch on. Therefore, I now try not to comment on anything again. Why make waves once again?

About coaching work (“Companion", June 2017):“This is my main profession - a trainer-teacher. Yes, I looked at the girl in front of you and gave recommendations. If you break away from coaching practice, then you are no longer a nobody. Tennis is developing quickly.”

About future stars (ibid.):

— Sharapova, Kuznetsova, Vesnina are our main stars, but they are over 30. Will anyone replace them when they finish?

— We generally have golden youth, and they are already capable of winning. We have more than 10 young tennis players who are the future. Three of the guys can be singled out: Karen Khachanov, Daniil Medvedev, Andrei Rublev.

8 facts about Shamil Tarpishchev

• The tennis player’s name, according to him, translates as “heard by God.”
• In 1972, at the tournament of the strongest tennis players of the USSR in Tashkent, Tarpishchev played a match with Anatoly Volkov, which lasted a record 9 hours and 15 minutes.
• He said that until 1987 he lived with his parents and was able to move to a separate apartment only after the intervention of the deputy head of the Moscow Soviet, Anatoly Kostenko, who was fond of tennis.
• He was married to tennis player Angela Korosidi and divorced her in 1998. After the divorce, he settled with his sons Amir (born in 1987) and Philip (1994), as well as his sister’s family outside the city.
• Cheers for football team"Spartacus".
• He is the author of the books “The Court is Calling”, “School of Tennis”, “The Most long match" and "Tennis Academy".
• A reservoir in Mordovia near the native village of his parents, Tatar Yunki, is named in his honor - a pond named after. Sh. A. Tarpischeva
• In 2014, on the “Evening Urgant” show, Tarpishchev joked about physical fitness tennis players Serena and Venus Williams, calling them the “Williams brothers.” For this, he was suspended for a year from the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and fined $25,000.

Materials about Shamil Tarpishchev:

Biographical information on Wikipedia

Article on RIA Novosti

Biography of Lenta.ru

Article on Biograph.ru

Tennis player's interview with Epochtimes.ru

Interview with Sport Express

President of the Russian Tennis Federation, member of the International Olympic Committee, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Vice-President of the Academy of the Peoples of the World at the UN, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International tennis tournament Kremlin Cup, captain of the Russian national tennis team, honored coach of the USSR and Russia, winner of the Davis and Federation Cups (twice) as part of the Russian national teams

Born on March 7, 1948 in Moscow. Father - Tarpishchev Anvyar Belyalovich (1913–1995). Mother - Tarpishcheva Maryam Alievna (1922–2003). Sons: Amir (born 1987) and Philip (born 1994).
Shamil Tarpishchev's parents were born and raised in Mordovia, in the Tatar village of Tat-Yunki. The Tarpishchevs lived prosperously: they had a brick house and a beautiful garden. During collectivization, all this was lost. In the 1930s, Tarpishchev’s father went to Moscow and entered the Znamya Truda aviation plant, where he worked as a stamper until his retirement. He became famous as a jack of all trades. While in the army, he served in the cavalry, was an excellent horseman - he picked up a scarf from the ground at full gallop, and was a champion in rowing boats.
Tarpishchev's mother was brought to Moscow as a four-year-old girl. Here she studied at school, graduated from technical school, got married, and when her children Shamil and Elmira grew up, she worked at the same aircraft factory as her father.
The Tarpishchev family is famous for its long-livers: his great-grandmother died at the age of 105, his grandmother lived for about 90 years, his father lived for 82 years.
In the winter of 1956, when Shamil was 8 years old, he began playing Russian hockey at the Stadium young pioneers, which was then part of the Trud sports society. In the summer I also visited football section. After an injury received during training, the mother forbade her son to play football. On the advice of friends, he moved to the tennis section. His first coach was Igor Vsevolodov. Subsequently, for 2 years he trained with Viktor Lundyshev, who at that time was the coach of the Moscow national team. It was Lundyshev, according to Shamil Anvyarovich, who made him a tennis player. After the tragic death of Lundyshev in a car accident in 1962, Tarpishchev began training at the Shakhtar stadium, which was then considered the main tennis base of the Trud sports society. Here the newcomer was helped by Alexey Bekunov and Boris Borovsky, the then tennis leader of the Trud sports society. Under their leadership, Shamil’s first trips to the training camp in the city of Sochi took place. At Shakhtar, Tarpishchev worked with various coaches, including eminent ones - Semyon Fridlyand, Galina Kondratyeva, Lev Agayan, Viktor Yanchuk, Svyatoslav Mirza.
In 1965, 17-year-old Tarpishchev won the international tournament in Sochi. A year later he fulfilled the standard for master of sports. At the Italian Open, he won 9 matches in a row! However, he still could not give up the football he loved so much for the sake of tennis: from the age of 16 he played for the Kulon and Znamya Truda factories and in the championship of the giant plant for the workshop in which his father worked. They even looked closely at Tarpishchev in the reserve team of Dynamo Moscow, and repeatedly offered a place in the first league team.
After graduating from high school, Tarpishchev decided to go to study at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, but after the first exam, on the advice of coach Anatoly Popadyuk, he took the documents and soon entered the Institute of Physical Education (now the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture).
At the Tarpishchev Institute he began to train independently: he studied abstracts on various techniques, “tried on” them for myself, improved my playing technique. The results were immediate. In the 1st year he became 64th in the classification of the best tennis players of the USSR, in the 2nd - 20th, in the 3rd - already 8th. Thus, during 3 years of study at the institute, he managed to rise to the top ten tennis players of the Soviet Union. In 1968 he won the Moscow Star Tournament, in 1969–1970 he won the Sigmund Memorial in pairs, and in 1976 in singles. However, all these successes did not affect his position in the national team, where he existed completely independently, while experiencing considerable difficulties in traveling to international competitions, without participation in which it is impossible to achieve real heights in tennis, either then or now. After graduating from the institute, Tarpishchev, as a reserve officer, was called up to serve in the army. That's how he ended up in CSKA.
In the early 1970s, Tarpishchev was among the top ten best tennis players in the country three times (in 1972 he was even 4th). Among him sporting achievements during this period - victory in singles and doubles at an international tournament in the German city of Zinnowitz and at the world championship among railway tennis players in doubles, at the 1972 International Summer Tournament and USSR Open Championship. In 1972–1973, he won three tournaments for the strongest tennis players in the USSR. In 1972, at the tournament of the country's strongest tennis players in Tashkent, Tarpishchev played a match with Muscovite Anatoly Volkov, which lasted 9 hours 15 minutes and can be considered the longest in the world professional tennis(in conditions of 30-degree heat, the match was postponed for 30 days). In 1973, he was included in the main Davis Cup team along with Alexander Metreveli, Teimuraz Kakulia and Sergei Likhachev. By this time, he already had his own idea of ​​what and how to change in domestic tennis.
In 1974, Tarpishchev’s unprecedented career in world sports began as a coach, captain of the country’s national teams, and sports manager. Moreover, it must be admitted that in the 1960s and 1970s, when Tarpishchev played as a player, the authority of the domestic tennis school in the world tennis hierarchy was low. Nowadays Russian tennis players occupy the most high places on the largest international competitions. They became trendsetters in world tennis, perhaps the most elite sport. Their playing is admired on all continents, their photographs are on the covers of the most respected magazines.
Let us return, however, to 1974. On January 12, Tarpishchev was appointed head coach of the USSR national tennis team. Becoming a national team coach at the age of 25 is an extraordinary achievement in itself! The new coach had to change a lot in the country's first team. The amount of work he carried out in the first 2 years from the moment of his appointment far exceeded the then prevailing norms and rules. When selecting players and coaches, Tarpishchev tried to determine the optimal team of the future. He invited Sergei Shkola, a specialist in the scientific search for talented children among beginners, Tatyana Ivanova, and many other highly qualified specialists, to join the team for scientific support of the team, led by a well-known specialist in training methods, Anna Skorodumova, from the famous laboratory of sports psychology of L. Giessen, Sergei Shkola. With their help, Tarpishchev developed new system training based on an individual approach. As a result individual program training sessions were scheduled for each national team player. At the same time, the physical and psychological state of the athletes was constantly monitored by a scientific team. In the new working conditions, significant efforts were required to restructure the mentality of coaches.
Tarpishchev’s efforts were aimed at organizing tennis training centers in various regions of the country, including the Baltic states, Crimea, Central Asia, and Eastern Siberia. The indoor courts built there made it possible to solve the problem of the seasonality of this sport.
The results of the measures taken by Tarpischev bore fruit. In addition to the growth of the national team’s sporting achievements, its authority also grew. Tarpishchev’s development as a coach was largely helped by the players of the first generation of the national team he led - Alexander Metreveli, Olga Morozova, Teimuraz Kakulia, Vladimir Korotkov, Anatoly Volkov, Marina Kroshina, Natalya Borodina, Elena Granaturova, Marina Chuvyrina, Rauza Islanova. Later, a new galaxy of talented players appeared. Konstantin Pugaev, Vadim Borisov, Alexander Zverev, Sergey Leonyuk, Alexander Bogomolov, Ramiz Akhmerov, Svetlana Cherneva (Parhomenko), Olga Zaitseva, Yulia Kashevarova, Oksana Lifanova, Yulia Salnikova and others joined the national team.
Already 3 years after being appointed head coach of the national team, Tarpishchev came to the conclusion that it was impossible to work with everyone at the same time, from young men to veterans. There is a need to divide this work. This is how the country's youth teams emerged for the first time. age groups, and then split up and main team adults - since 1981, Olga Morozova became the coach and captain of the women's team.
In 1977, Tarpishchev prepared and concluded the first ever domestic sports a tennis contract with the European representative of the famous Adidas company. This was the first major contract for the supply of foreign tennis equipment.
At the same time, for various political reasons, our tennis players did not participate in international competitions, with the exception of a few amateur tournaments in socialist countries. Tarpishchev repeatedly tried to get permission for our tennis players to play in the West, at least in individual competitions. Finally, in 1983, such permission was received. That same year in Germany, our team earned its first rating points in satellite tournaments, and some time later the team players began to participate in various professional competitions. At the invitation of Tarpishchev, a new generation of talented masters came to the national team: Dmitry Lomanov, Andrei Chesnokov, Alexander Volkov, Andrei Olkhovsky, and later Andrei Cherkasov, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Andrei Medvedev...
For 17 years (1974–1991), until the collapse of the country, Tarpishchev led the USSR national team as a senior coach. From 1978 to 1980 he was the captain of the Fed Cup team, from 1974 he was the coach of the Davis Cup team, and in 1983 he led the European team in the Asia-Europe match. Under his leadership, our tennis players won 26 gold medals at the European Championships (1974–1983), made it to the finals of the Royal Cup tournament (1981) and the semi-finals of the Davis Cup (1974, 1976) and the Federation Cup (1978, 1979). In 1981, he was awarded the title of Honored Trainer of the RSFSR, and 4 years later - the title of Honored Trainer of the USSR. In addition to working with the national team, Tarpishchev coached Larisa Savchenko-Neyland, a 6-time winner of the “ Grand Slam"in doubles.
In 1991, Tarpishchev was elected president of the USSR Tennis Federation, then headed the CIS Tennis Federation. He continues to unofficially supervise the now Russian national team, finds sponsors for it, provides support for it, and organizes tournaments. Simultaneously plays for German club in the veterans tournament in the West.
The 1990s became special in the history of domestic tennis. While chaos and confusion reigned in the country, domestic tennis was gaining momentum.
In 1990, the Kremlin Cup tournament was held in Moscow - the first world-class tournament, which became a kind of catalyst for the development of tennis in the country. On the Soviet side, Tarpishchev was appointed director of this tournament. And earlier, in August 1988, in Jurmala, during the next Davis Cup match, he first met Boris Yeltsin, then the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. A year later, Tarpishchev invited the future first President of Russia to play tennis... Their meetings became more and more frequent: Boris Nikolaevich became addicted to tennis. The conversation inevitably turned to sports. Tarpishchev often shared his thoughts on what and how to do in order to increase the efficiency of the entire system of our sport. On January 18, 1992, Tarpishchev was appointed Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Physical Culture and Sports. He began his activities in his new position with the development of the legislative framework Russian sports, corresponding to the new stage of the country's development. Together with a group of specialists, I collected everything necessary materials according to sports legislation in many countries of the world, developed optimal options for Russia. Over the course of several months, 36 decrees, 44 orders of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as government resolutions on the development of physical culture and sports in Russia (1992–1996) were prepared. In 1993, on the initiative of Tarpishchev, the Coordination Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the President of the Russian Federation was created. Shamil Anvyarovich was its chairman until 1997.
Having begun the reorganization in Russian sports, Tarpishchev came to the conclusion that it could not take place without the participation of the International Olympic Committee. In 1992, on the eve of the Barcelona Olympics, he became one of the organizers of the meeting of Russian President B.N. Yeltsin with IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in the Kremlin. Subsequently, all CIS presidents invited the IOC president. This ensured the involvement of the former Soviet republics in the Olympic movement and largely saved sports in these now independent countries. The IOC highly appreciated Tarpishchev's services in reforming Russian sports: in 1994 he was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee, which he remains to this day.
In 1994, Tarpishchev was appointed chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Physical Culture and Tourism. He worked in this position for 2 years. During this time, with his direct participation, 2 federal programs on sanatoriums and tourism were adopted, and a federal program on sports was developed.
From 1997 to 2000, Tarpishchev was an adviser to the mayor of Moscow on sports.
Since 1974, Tarpishchev has been the permanent captain of the Davis Cup teams of the USSR (1974–1991), CIS (1992) and Russia (since 1997), the Fed Cup (1978–1980, 2000–2005) and the World Cup (1990–2003).
Under the leadership of Tarpishchev, our team won this coveted world tennis trophy for the first time in the dramatic final of the 2002 Davis Cup in Paris and made it to the semi-finals of this competition three times (1974, 1976 and 2005).
During his 26 years at the helm of our Davis Cup team (a record achievement in the world), Tarpishchev captained 59 matches, 39 of which our team won. “The Davis Cup matches,” he believes, “are my biography. I was born into them as a coach, they have gone through my whole life...”
The Russian national team, led by Tarpishchev, performed well in the Fed Cup, the unofficial women's world team championship. She won the finals twice in a row (2004, 2005) over strong team France, having become the strongest team in the world, entered the elite club of Cup-winning teams.
Speaking about the successes of our team, one cannot fail to mention another tournament - the World Cup - annual team championship world among professional tennis players. Tarpishchev's pets participated in it for 14 years (1990–2003, except 1991) and became finalists of this prestigious competition three times in a row (2000, 2001, 2002).
The end of the last and the beginning of this century became, without exaggeration, triumphant for Russian tennis and in individual competitions. During this period, Tarpishchev headed not only the men's and women's national teams of the country, but also tennis as a whole as the president of the All-Russian Tennis Association (since 1999), and then the president of the Russian Tennis Federation. The successes of Russians during that period are eloquently evidenced by the following facts: Yevgeny Kafelnikov - Olympic champion in 2000, winner of 6 Grand Slam tournaments in various categories, Anastasia Myskina - the first Russian world champion and the first Russian winner of a Grand Slam tournament in singles ( 2004), Elena Dementyeva - silver medalist of the 2000 Olympics and finalist of two Grand Slam tournaments in singles, Marat Safin - winner open championships USA and Australia, Svetlana Kuznetsova is America's first tennis player, and Maria Sharapova is our first Wimbledon winner. Kafelnikov, Safin and Sharapova at different times topped the current ranking of the world's strongest tennis players.
Tarpishchev’s merits in the development of sports were noted by the state, the domestic and world sports community.
In 2002, Tarpishchev became a member of the presidium of the Presidential Council for Physical Culture and Sports, chairman of the commission for developing priority directions of state policy in the field of physical education and sports, as well as strategies for the development of sports in the Russian Federation.
In addition to all these responsibilities, Shamil Tarpishchev is also the head coach sports team Moscow district internal troops, Associate Professor of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture, Honorary Professor of the Moscow International Higher School of Business "MIRBIS", Academician of the International Academy of Informatization, full member of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement.
Awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1994), the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, and the medal “In Memory of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan.” Recognized by the Federation sports journalists Russia's best coach in Russia in 2000. Laureate of the national award “Glory” in the field of sports in the category “ best coach of the Year" (2002), laureate of the State Prize of Mordovia (2003), Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Mordovia. For outstanding services in the development of domestic sports, he was awarded the Order of Peter the Great, 1st degree, Lomonosov, and the gold star “For Loyalty to Russia” by the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement. Knight of the International Golden Order of St. Constantine the Great, awarded the medal of the International Tennis Federation “For merits in tennis”. Has honorary badges: “For merits in the development of physical culture and sports”, “For merits in the development Olympic movement", "Excellence in Physical Culture and Sports", "Sports Glory of Russia" 1st degree, "Honorary Dynamo Player", awarded the "Golden Chrysanthemum" award for his contribution to the development of Russia's image abroad in the field of sports.
He is the author of the books “Court Calling” (1988), “School of Tennis” (1990), “The Longest Match” (1999), “Tennis Academy” (1999). Since 1994 - member of the editorial board of Tennis+ magazine. Has 9 copyright certificates for the production of tennis surfaces.
In addition to his main hobbies, tennis and football, he is interested in theater and likes to spend his free time with friends and family.
Lives and works in Moscow.

It is unlikely that anyone in the world of sports has not heard the name of Tarpishchev - the president of the Russian Tennis Federation, captain of the Russian team in the Davis Cup and Fed Cup matches. In the world of sports, hardly anyone has not heard his name, because he is a member of the International Olympic Committee, a man who has repeatedly led our tennis players to victories at the Davis Cup and Fed Cup, which are considered unofficial team competitions in tennis. In the world of sports, Shamil Anvyarovich is a king, but few people know anything about his personal life.

Recently, the world-famous coach turned 60 years old. He achieved everything in life - he planted a tree, built a house in the Moscow region, and raised two sons alone. Our correspondent talks to him about this and other things.

Shamil Anvarovich, 2008 has been declared the year of the family. What does it mean in your life?

Family is the most important thing a person has. These are his roots and we must not forget about this. Family is one of nature's masterpieces. The family is a society in miniature. It brings fullness of life and happiness. All my life I have had two families - a tennis family and an ordinary one. I always treat the players like my own children. Otherwise, there will be no trust, there will be no mutual understanding, and therefore there will be no victories in this sport. Now I don’t even know which of these families spent more time. Probably equally. Maybe that’s why he achieved a lot in life and sports.

Almost your entire life has been spent in tennis. You are a master of sports, an honored coach of Russia, coaching career started 30 years ago as the senior coach of the MGS DSO "Dynamo". Tell us a little about your family...

I am Tatar by nationality! My parents are from the same village of Tat-Yunki, in Mordovia. This is a Tatar village and all my relatives are Tatars. Our whole family are long-livers. My great-grandmother died at 105, my grandmother at 87, my father at 82, and my mother is still alive. We live together now - my mother, my sister Elmira and her husband Rinat, our children - my two sons Amir and Philip and their daughter Aliya. My sister and her husband take care of my mother and help me.

Love of sports from your father?

He was a horseman and a cavalryman! He easily picked up a handkerchief from the ground at a full gallop. He was a naturally athletic man. In the army he had no equal in boat rowing, and he was a great skier. So my physical characteristics come from him. But I was the same size as my grandfather and my mother’s father.

Is your father your coach?

Stamper! He came to the Moscow Znamya Truda plant in the thirties and worked there until the end - as a stamper. He was also an innovator. During the war, as a highly qualified specialist, he was not called up to the front, but was evacuated along with the plant to Kuibyshev. He returned to Moscow in 1946 and soon, on December 5, Constitution Day, he got married. There used to be such a holiday. So we celebrated it doubly.

When's your birthday?

March 7. I was born in 1948. My name translates as “heard by God.” My sister Elmira is four years younger than me. She graduated from the Aviation Institute. I was born in Pechatnikov Lane, near Trubnaya Square. Then we moved to Leningradsky Prospect to the Young Pioneers Stadium. I remember how in 1st Botkinsky Proezd we lived in a room on the tenth floor of an eleven-story building. In communal apartment number 133. This room was given to my father, as a leader in production. Later we moved to Novaya Bashilovka. There was already a two-room apartment for four. And the general designer of the Ilyushin company, Gennady Novozhilov, helped us get it. Then I already played for the former Union tennis team.

They say that you also ran on Begovaya?

In the mornings I sometimes went jogging along Begovaya. They moved there when the plant built a new house on Begovaya Street. Then the housewarming party was celebrated in a three-room apartment. Believe it or not, I lived with my parents until I was 39 years old. And I bought myself a car, a green Zhiguli of the sixth model, only at 32 years old. And I managed to buy a three-room cooperative apartment with the help of the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Council, Anatoly Kostenko, who loved to play tennis.

Many people are surprised how you manage to rule tennis in the country and raise two sons...

My wife and I divorced and now I am raising Amir and Philip. The name Amir translates as "lord". Apparently his genes passed on his love of tennis from me. He plays well for his age.

When you played abroad, did you take Amir with you?

I played veteran tournaments for a German club and took it with me to Germany. One day my son did this! In the literal sense of the word. One boy offended him and Amir took revenge on him. From the second floor... urinated on his head! Then he told me that he sat in ambush for more than one day to punish the offender.

Do you also have a younger son?

I treat Philip completely differently than I treat Amir. From a young age I try to be with him as often as possible. As a child, I put him to bed myself. Younger son also plays tennis. Previously, if something didn’t work out, he often cried. But if a fight happens, he will fight until he falls exhausted. Well, just like me as a child.

They say that best school discipline is family...

And it’s hard to disagree with this. I have always encouraged my sons to do this. The main basis of parental authority can only be the life and work of one of the parents. And self-will should be extinguished sooner than a fire. Let the child's first lesson be obedience. Then the second one can be what you consider necessary. If you yield to the child, he will become your master. And in order to make him obey, you will have to negotiate with him every minute. As they say, sow an action and you will reap a habit, sow a habit and you will reap a character, sow a character and you will reap a destiny.

What do you think is the surest way to make a child unhappy?

This is to teach him not to refuse anything. Raising a child requires more penetrating thinking, deeper wisdom than governing a state. The upbringing of a person begins with his birth. He doesn’t speak yet, doesn’t listen yet, but he’s already learning. Experience precedes learning.

Any employee can be replaced by someone who is equally or even more capable. And your father?

A good father cannot be replaced by an equally good father. Man has three disasters - death, old age and bad children. No one can close the doors of their house from old age and death, but the children themselves can protect the house from bad children. In a word, treat your parents the way you would like your own children to treat you.

When did you start playing tennis?

Football has always been my first priority. And I studied at school 698, which was near my house. As a child, I played football with the boys from morning to evening. At first he played in goal, then moved to midfield. At the age of eight, he signed up for the Russian hockey section and went there in the winter, and in the summer he disappeared on the football field. Once I suffered a torn ligament during training and my mother forbade me to play football. Then I switched to the tennis section only because at the end of the training the tennis players played... football!

What base did you train at?

At the Young Pioneers Stadium, not far from the Dynamo metro station. Back then there was a football field, a cycling track and a section where shot put and hammer throwing were performed. One day the hammer flew onto the court and hung on the wires above my head. But I still managed to jump back when sports equipment fell to the ground noisily. Viktor Nikolaevich Lundyshev worked on the SUP courts, who made me a tennis player.

Did you quickly become a discharger?

Already at the age of fourteen he completed his first adult level in tennis. For some time I trained at the stadium in Sokolniki. Svetlana Aspisova, the wife of Spartak football player Rudik Blinov, was also involved in my sports education.

Have your relationships with coaches always been smooth?

Not always. From the very beginning, things didn’t work out with Gibon - that’s what we jokingly called the best tennis coach in the Union at that time, Sergei Sergeevich Andreev. There was such a tennis player Alik Ivanov. He criticized Andreev mercilessly, but behind his back. We once told him about this and then he plucked up courage, walked up to Andreev and blurted out: “Sergei Sergeevich, you are a s— but!”

Was it difficult to play both football and tennis at the same time?

Football gave me... income. From the age of sixteen he played as a substitute for the Kulon plant and at the same time for the Banner of Labor, for his father’s workshop. He had a chervonets per week, which was considered decent money at that time. Once there was a factory championship and I scored eleven goals in seven matches. The trade union committee came to present my father with the cup as the best scorer, and he was already retired then. So I was declassified!

Tennis docs remember that at the age of 17 you won an international tournament in Sochi...

It happened. But until I was twenty, I couldn’t give up football for tennis. It is still my favorite sport to this day. Then they looked closely at me in the double team of Dynamo Moscow. At the same time, I was offered a place in the first league team, but I stayed in tennis.

They say you were big jokers with Viktor Rubanov...

One of the pranks during training is to lather the strings on the racket. Or wet the real gut strings and let them dry in the sun. The string became concrete, the racket rang like a bell and it was impossible to play. Our third joker was Konstantin Bogorodetsky. It used to be that people would return to the CSKA locker room, and everyone’s pockets would be sewn shut or their shoelaces would be cut!

Did you study at the Institute of Physical Education?

In him, beloved. In the first year he became 64th in the classification, in the second - 20th, in the third - 8th. There was a time when he won three tournaments in a row against the strongest tennis players of the Union.

Did you pass the exams easily?

Once I passed an exam with an element of... hypnosis! Scientific communism was taught to us by Associate Professor Razuvaev. It was time to take the exam, and I had never been to one of his lectures. One day I was walking along the corridor at the institute, and Razuvaev met me. I told him, when can I come to you? And he will suit you “well” for me?! I completely gave him the record book. Then Razuvaev comes into the classroom, sits down, is silent for several minutes, then says: “Just now I saw Tarpishchev in the corridor, I gave him a four, but for what?!”

Did you quickly become a tennis master?

In 1967, I was nineteen years old when I fulfilled the standard of a master of sports. It happened at the first tournament in the company best players Union. There I took third place. When I got into the national team, everyone in it prayed to Alik Metreveli like God. The meter commanded everyone in the team. There were people who washed his socks, some crowed on orders, some ran for kefir. Once, during a training match, I beat Metra, so Andreev gave me a dressing down!

Have you ever served in the army?

He served in CSKA. I even had a rank - lieutenant. I had to play tennis with Marshal Grechko. Surgeon Vishnevsky also came to the CSKA courts. Army General Lelyushenko also came. First he played the piano - this was his warm-up, and then he went to the court. One day he asks me: “Shamil, don’t you have a wallet? Well, this case is for a racket!”

Did you have a chance to play with Metreveli at the championship of the former Union?

It was in Tbilisi. Then I lost the first set, took the second, and in the third, with the score 4:2, the strings on my racket broke. One of my friends gave me a wooden Vostok rocket, and I played with a Dunlop and ended up giving away the set. I go into the locker room, and there Andreev gives instructions to Meter on how to play against me. My nerves couldn’t stand it, I threw the racket towards Andreev and thank God I didn’t hit.

Did you manage to play in exotic countries?

I played in Cuba twice and lived there for almost a month both times. Among ourselves, we jokingly called Thomas Leius the entrepreneur. He could sell anything. Once I reached the finals of a tournament, I get up in the morning and I don’t have my uniform. Leius had already placed it somewhere, because he didn’t think that I would reach the finals! I also remember how I brought home from Cuba... 23 bottles of rum!

There are jokes about how you psyched up tennis players before a game...

Teimuraz Kakulia previously played for the national team. True, he played psychologically, starting from his own fear. If you set it up before the game, it would burn out. I often told him this: “Timur. You are a complete nonentity, you don’t know how to play, your opponent is head and shoulders above you, you have no chance. We don’t expect results from you, play as you want!” Usually, after such words, he turned from a hare into a lion and could beat anyone.

It's time to include you in the Guinness Book of Records for your titles...

I have been asked more than once how I managed to remain as the senior coach of the national tennis team for so long. I usually answered that this was because no one needed tennis in the country! Seriously though, I still can’t answer this question.

Have any funny stories happened to the players?

Daily! This incident happened a long time ago, but it still amuses me. In one of the matches, a phenomenal incident occurred with Natasha Borodina. Lena Granaturova loses to Tracy Austin and I make a substitution during the match. I offer Natasha to go out onto the court, but she refuses because she forgot... to put on her panties! No one had ever seen Chesnokov throw rackets. And at the first tournaments, due to the overload, he became so upset that he even threw his rackets over the fence. There was a match when he was removed from the competition. Andrei, wherever he went, was always half an hour late. Once he came to training on Shiryaevo Field with... a string bag. It contains sandwiches and slippers. They ask him: “Andryusha, where is your racket?” Chesnokov: “In the string bag!” But there is no racket in the string bag! But about Leonyuk. Once he lost an offensive ball, he had just opened his mouth to swear when he met Tanya Naumko’s gaze. Then he said in his hearts: “The enemies burned down my home!” And as Volkov swore, not a single foreign philologist, no matter how long he studied Russian, could translate. No one has ever heard of this! Therefore, Volkov escaped punishment more than once thanks to his masterly text!

Have there been cases when a tennis player was in a bad mood before a game and it was necessary to change his mood?

As much as you like. If Borisov pestered me before the game, picked on me and joked, for me it meant that he was fine. If Vadim became withdrawn, then I sent Akhmerov to him so that he would start a fight with him. Then they were separated, reconciled, and Borisov played normally after the conflict. If you don’t bring him out of his closed state, he will definitely lose.

Violate sport mode did you have to go abroad?

And more than once! In 1976, together with Olya Morozova, he went to the tournament of the four strongest tennis players in the world - Chris Evert, Virginia Wade, Billie Jean-King and Olga Morozova. It took place in Florida. On the court I played a game with unknown Americans and he invited me to visit his villa. We've arrived. We drank and it turned out that my partner was the director of a Texas bank. He asked what cocktails Russians like. I answered jokingly - half a glass of vodka and the same amount of beer. We drank and I didn’t know what to do with them!

There are a lot of stories about how you played with the Israeli national team in Donetsk in 1984. Is it possible to clarify how everything really happened?

I had never seen such electricity before the match at any other competition. Tennis players from Israel were accommodated in several hotel rooms on the same floor. Apart from the Israeli team, no one else was supposed to be there. Even Soviet Jews were prohibited from staying in the hotel. And in such a situation, an anecdotal incident occurred. Pilot-cosmonaut Igor Volk arrived from Zhukovsky near Moscow with three Jewish friends! Igor Volk was then the chairman of the USSR Tennis Federation. The astronaut arrived the day before the competition, and there were no more rooms in the hotel. It was barely possible to persuade the hotel director to place Igor Petrovich on the same floor where the Israeli players were staying. But when the administrator saw that all three of the astronaut’s friends had the “fifth point,” a new wave arose. On my personal responsibility, Jews from Zhukovsky were registered in a hotel, but on the condition that they would not communicate with Jews from Israel. But the most interesting thing is that only Igor Volk ended up on the floor where the Israeli delegation lived. This is the 23rd match between the teams former USSR and we won Israel - 3:2. We arrived in Moscow, and there was silence, as if the guys weren’t playing. Only one newspaper wrote a report called “20 hours and 15 minutes in the electric chair.” And my photo is on this chair! During the match, without moving, I lost more than four kilograms of weight!

You recently lost a lot of strength and nerves when our girls played a Fed Cup match in Israel...

For many years in tennis, I have never seen the spectators of the promised land so interfere with our tennis players while serving. According to the rules, there should be deathly silence, but in Israel this time they clapped and shouted arm in arm, imitated our girls so much that I even had to add a protest. How the Israeli fans shouted and clapped, but they failed to make our tennis players lose their temper. Maria Sharapova and Anna Chakvetadze distinguished themselves by their strength of character. Our girls were stronger and they won.

What was the 32 day rule before?

A Soviet person could not stay abroad on a business trip for more than 32 days! With the onset of 31 days, I had to return to my homeland, but immediately, as soon as I crossed the border back and forth, I could board a plane and fly away again. Every self-respecting athlete had several passports. Arrived with one, departed with the other!

Did you have to give any hints to the players during the game?

And more than once! Passed youth championship Europe in Switzerland. There Volkov played against Carlson and the Kaliningrader did a lot of things out of place. I wrote a note on how to act on the court and passed it to Sasha through the boy serving the balls. Volkov took the note and put it in his pocket without reading. After the transition, he started playing just great, as if according to the plan that I gave him. In the end, he won the meeting, comes up to me and instead of gratitude I hear: “Sorry, I put your note in my pocket, got lost in playing and forgot to read it!”

Are notes the only means of hints?

No. Often other tactics were used. It happened that I deliberately positioned myself in the stands so that one of my friends was three seats away from me. And when the players sat down at the crossing, I loudly explained to my friend what they had to do to win. The referee can't reprimand me, because I'm talking to a friend, not a player!

There are many stories about Chesnokov...

I will never forget when Andrey played against the eighth racket of France, Sido, in Germany. It came down to a tiebreaker and both were so fed up on the court that they were “ready.” Almost both players started having convulsions. At first, Sido's leg cramped and he literally crawled on all fours to get to the other side of the court when changing sides. Then the same thing happens to Chesnokov. An unforgettable picture: one is trying to get up to receive, the other is trying to serve. It was impossible to look at them without tears. But Chessie still won the match. He has always been a real tournament fighter. Remember his match in Moscow against the German Stich, when Andrey fought back nine match points!

Honored Coach of the USSR and Russia, President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Anvyarovich Tarpishchev was born on March 7, 1948 in Moscow.

Since childhood, he was actively involved in sports, playing football and bandy. In 1956, after an injury received during football training, he came to tennis.
After graduation high school Shamil Tarpishchev entered the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, but soon took the documents and entered the State Central Institute of Physical Culture (since 2003 - Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism).

In the 1962‑1970s he advocated for the DSO "Trud". In 1967 he won his first major victory, winning the International Tournament in Sochi in doubles. In 1968 he won the tournament in Sochi in singles and mixed doubles. In 1969 and 1970 he won the Sigmund Memorial as a pair.

In the 1970s-1974s he served in the Central sports club army (CSKA) with the rank of lieutenant. While serving in the army, he continued to perform successfully in international and national competitions. In total, during his sports career, Tarpishchev won 10 international tournaments.

In the period from 1970 to 1973, the athlete was among the top ten strongest tennis players in the USSR three times. In 1972 he took fourth place in the national ranking - the best in his sports career.

In 1974, the tennis player switched to coaching, first becoming the senior coach of the Moscow State Sports and Sports Society “Dynamo”, and then the national team.

From 1974 to 1983, Soviet tennis players, led by Tarpishchev, won 26 gold medals at the European Championships, and in 1981 they reached the finals of the Royal Cup tournament.

During the same period, Shamil Tarpishchev was elected captain of the USSR men's team. Under his leadership, the team played 72 matches at the Davis Cup, 48 of which were victorious. In 1974 and 1976, the captain led the team to the semi-finals of the tournament. Twice, in 2002 and 2006, domestic tennis players under the leadership of Tarpishchev became winners of the Davis Cup.

In 1978, the athlete also became the captain of the USSR women's tennis team, which, under his leadership, successfully played 31 out of 41 matches in the Federation Cup. In 1978-1979 Soviet tennis players reached the semi-finals of the tournament. In the 2000s, the team won the Federation Cup four times (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008).

In 1996, Shamil Tarpishchev became an academician of the International Academy of Informatization.

Author of the books "The Court is Calling" (1988), "Tennis. First Steps" (1990), "The ABCs of Tennis" (1999), "The Longest Match" (1999), "The City of Our Victories" (2013).

Since 1994, he has been a member of the editorial board of Tennis+ magazine.

Shamil Tarpishchev was married to tennis player Angela Korosidi, but divorced in 1998. Lives with his sister Elmira and her family. There are two adult sons - Amir (born in 1987) and Philip (born in 1994).

Supports FC Spartak.

He is interested in theater and likes to spend his free time with friends and family.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources