Tennis player Emil Ruusuvuori participates in two challenger tournaments in Tenerife in February. Henri Kontinen helps Rose Mountain with his special expertise.
Emil Rose Mountain Playing their first competitive tennis matches in February after a more than half a year break. Ruusuvuori has enrolled in two ATP challenger tournaments, which are played in Tenerife.
In the tournaments, the Ruusuvuori team has a foreign coach as if in an experiment.
– I’m not going to name her now, but such a guy with a longer experience in the industry. There is such a spirit in search (Henri Kontinen) A bit more experienced, another tennis coach, Ruusuvuori tells Sports.
According to him, the coach is consciously searched abroad. Finland is a small country, and tennis here as a species is so small that the information level is limited, Ruusuvuori describes.
Ruusuvuori, who was breaking in September, said at the end of last year that he would return to the playing field in February. At the same time, a tennis player said that his new coach was Henri Kontinen.
Tenerife was chosen as the start of the season as the Ruusuvuori protection ending ends on the start day of the first tournament. In addition, the island has the opportunity to play outdoors and warm.
While on the break, Ruusuvuori introduced a so -called protected ranking investment, which requires at least half a year’s break due to illness or injury. The protection of the protection is to facilitate the player’s return to the main league tournaments.
Kontinen helped with his special expertise
Ruusuvuori last played at the racing level on July 31 at the ATP 500 in the United States. At the beginning of August he was ranked 70th in the world list. In September, he announced that he would take a break from tennis due to both physical and mental overload.
– I’m not going to open up why I was on a break, says Ruusuvuori.
The first Tenerife tournaments will be played from 3 to 9. February and another 10-16. February. Both tournaments are played on a tough field.
– There was no need to use protective ranges for those tournaments, but I got involved in my own rankings. It has been great that training has been really good for a long time. It’s been the biggest thing.
Rose Mountain is third in the first tournament and second in the second tournament. The Finn is ranked 141 on Monday Dominik Koepferwhich is 118th in the world list.
Collaboration with coach Henri Kontinen has started well, says Ruusuvuori. Kontinen is the former men’s world charter number one. Kontinen has helped Rose Mountain, especially with a web game, feeds, and aggressive and forward -moving game.
In February tournaments, Ruusuvuori wants to play as many matches as possible. The goal is to get a sense of the right match situations. It is also important that he enjoys tennis and waiting for success.
– However, it is recognized that the break has been half a year. You always have to keep in mind that you don’t hurry too much at your own end.
The success of Finns motivates
The tennis year of Finnish professional players started well in Australia’s open. Otto Virtanen first got straight to the Grand Slam tournament and Oskari Paldanius reached the semi -finals in the boys’ singles game. Cherry on the cake, of course, was Harri Heliövaara Men’s doubles championship together with a British Henry Pattenin with.
– An insanely great performance from Harr. Can’t like a hat to lift. Another Grand Slam for less than a year is quite sick.
– Likewise a great performance from Paldanius. My first good Grand Slam performance was in Australia. Let’s hope that success will continue – even with Otto.
Of course, Ruusuvuori hopes that he will soon be able to represent Finland with other players at Grand Slam level. He states that the success of Finns motivates him to return to the sharpest top.
Ruusuvuori remembers the former second of the men’s singles Magnus Norman I said that for Swedish tennis players, the biggest thing was to see a guy with whom he had been practicing for years.
– If you do well, why not? Such a way of thinking always helps and creates a kind of hustle and boom around the species. Let’s hope you get more young people in tennis and that will continue these good stuff.
At the same time, Ruusuvuori states that he is now focusing on his own performance.
– Now let’s see if certain gaming things remain in mind and be able to do them in Tenerife. That’s where it leaves.