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Igor Kunitsyn Bio
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- Brought up by his grandparents when he was a young boy, he started to play tennis at age seven since there were two hard and two clay courts just a few hundred meters from where he lived
- A tennis coach saw him hitting and asked if he could come out and play
- His grandmother, Ninel Kislovskaya, and grandfather, Nikolay Kislovskiy, have since become big tennis fans and used to travel with him to tournaments
- Plans to spend about half year living and training in northern California with countryman Dmitry Tursunov in 2007 and half year in Moscow, where he trains at CSKA with several other Russian pros
- Plays club matches for a team in Parma, Italy
- Originally from Vladivostok which is on the eastern coast of Russia, more than a nine hour flight from the capital
- Also swam and played basketball as a youth, but tennis was the only sport he was serious about
- Is known to be an excellent gourmet cook of Italian foods and loves going to good restaurants
- Used to work with Ricardo Piatti and became interested in cooking with his mother
- Speaks excellent English and Italian along with his Russian
- Considers hard courts as favorite surface and best part of his game is groundstrokes/baseline play
- Coached by Vitaly Gorin, who also works with Dmitry Tursunov.
Biographical information from ATP. Unless noted otherwise all data as of year-end 2007.
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