“It is difficult to say what exactly caused him to miss the Russian national team at the ATP Cup. Perhaps his performance at this tournament was not agreed. Perhaps the calendars did not match. You need to know the inner kitchen. But in the end it turned out that this situation benefited him. Who knows, maybe it was enough for Marat Safin to have Daniil Medvedev and Karen Khachanov in the clip. We didn’t want to keep the third number of such a tennis player as Rublev, who risked not getting into the team or playing from time to time, ”Kamelson said in an interview with RT.
Earlier, the ex-first racket of the world Evgeny Kafelnikov said that Rublev was perfectly prepared for the season.