Kuznetsova: "If I didn't train for five hours, my father wouldn't talk to me".
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As she retires in 2021, former world number 2 Svetlana Kuznetsova was on YouTube channel 'Business on a Napkin'.
Reflecting on her very successful career, she spoke in particular of her relationship with her father and the absolute rigor he imposed on her: "From childhood, my father taught me to train for many hours. If I didn't train for five hours, he simply wouldn't talk to me. His first question was always: 'Daughter, did you train for five hours?
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You tell him yes, and the conversation goes on. If not, he'd hang up. Everything was extremely simple. In our family, weekends were not allowed."
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