A couple of colotful postscripts on Belgrade from Soviet Sport:
The team of Russia conquered on the departure Serbia in the decisive paired match
on February 8, 2010, #17- M (18036) A. Grishchenko
YESTERDAY. Belgrade. SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA AND ALISA KLEYBANOVA: THEY CELEBRATE OUTPUT INTO THE SEMI-FINAL, WHERE GUEST ENCOUNTER WITH THE COMMAND OF THE USA WAITS THE RUSSIAN WOMEN
Source: Reuters EVENT OF DAY. TENNIS
GOBLET OF FEDERATION. 1/4 FINALES
The place of conducting the match of the goblet of federation - “Belgrade Arena” - is similar to our “Olympic” stadium. Not only the most important matches of volleyball and basketball are played here - about this resembles the monument at the main entrance, which consists of the winch also of enormous dark-blue sphere, but also musical concerts...
Next to “Belgrade Arena” - the “Fair Play” cafe and the Djokovic restaurant with the modest name “Novak”.
Place is comfortable, despite the fact that it's always crowded. In the menu - Serbian kitchen, the wine of limited runs. Here it is possible to meet the parents of Serbian tennis-player, who, they say, live nearby. Here at the adjacent table sits the mom of Djokovic--the entire evening this youthful blonde gaily associates with friends and smokes thin ladies' cigarettes.
Svetlana:
It was not clear until the last moment, who would defend the colors of Russian and Serbian flags. Thus, the first members of both commands - Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic - gave their agreement to participation in the Fed Cup match at the last moment. And if Jankovic indicated as the her back injury, for some reason they then in the case of Kuznetsova considered conflict with the captain an issue.
"This is 'special tactics' from Kuznetsova", joked back Shamil Tarpischev. "To all the girls thanks, that they agreed to represent Russia, because it is hard to play after Australia, yes even the goblet of federation to follow tournaments on another continent. Therefore the first round is especially hard."
"You somehow did mention, that Kuznetsova has the starry disease?" - a Serbian journalist turned to Tarpischev.
"That said in the press does not correspond to truth. We frequently joke, we speak allegorically. But the press frequently untwists facts that it is not necessary to untwist," said Tarpischev. "It was noticeable that in the relations between our best tennis players and captain everything is wonderful. They joked at the press conferences, they talked between themselves, they laughed. Many remarks and jokes about Tarpischeva were inverted at that sitting by Svetlana."