Andrei Nikolayevich
Potanin
Male
USSR
1940-02-19
Leningrad, USSR
Higher education. Graduated from Leningrad State University (Faculty of Physics). Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
He started playing tennis at the age of 6 on the courts of the Bolshevik Sports School. Coaches: V. Protasova, I. Panasevich, O. Tsaune, A. Bulysov, E. Negrebetsky. Master of Sports of the USSR (1956). He was in the top ten of the USSR (1957-65). The best place in the ranking of tennis players of the USSR - 1st (1962).
USSR champion among youths in singles (1954) and doubles (1954-56). Finalist of the Kent County Open (1957). Quarter-finalist of youth Wimbledon (1957). USSR champion in singles (1962). Multiple champion of Leningrad in singles, doubles and mixed categories.
In terms of his style of play, he was an atypical tennis player for the Soviet era - he preferred to play exclusively from the back line. He kept the opponents in constant tension, every now and then changing the direction, the length of the blows and the degree of rotation of the ball, taking into account the weaknesses in the opponent's game. This manner of play by Andrei Potanin caused a sharp rejection of the FT of the USSR in the person of the main domestic theorist of tennis S.P. Belitz-Geyman, who, on domestic soil (in the style of the head of the Country and the Party of that time, "maize" NS Khrushchev) literally implanted on the Soviet courts the "Australian" style of play with constant exits to the net. It was the "disobedience" of Andrey Potanin, who categorically did not want to change the style of his own game, that, being the first racket of the Union, Potanin did not get into the national team of the Davis Cup, was excommunicated from many international competitions, in which, of course, he could achieve outstanding success.
Inducted into the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame (2010).
For many years she has been working as a children's tennis coach on the courts of Zelenogorsk.
1956 - 1976
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1962 - USSR Nationals (Amateur)
1958 - Moscow Dynamo (Amateur)
Round 1
Hans Kary 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-1
6-0
Round 1
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Uwe Gottschalk
6-8
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Mikhail I. Mozer 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-3
6-4
17-19
6-3
Semifinals
Ion Tiriac 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-1
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Josef Vopicka
6-1
6-3
8-10
6-0
Round 2
Richard Schonborn (Schönborn) 1 *
Andrei Potanin
8-6
1-6
7-5
6-2
Quarterfinals
Alex Metreveli 1 *
Andrei Potanin
7-5
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Jorgen Ulrich
6-4
2-6
8-6
Semifinals
Toomas Lejus 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-3
6-0
11-9
Quarterfinals
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Nugzar (Nutzor) Mdzinarishvili
4-6
9-7
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Mikhail I. Mozer 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-1
2-6
6-4
10-8
Round 2
Frank Froehling III 1 *
Andrei Potanin
7-9
1-6
8-6
8-6
6-3
Final
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Mikhail I. Mozer
3-6
6-3
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Orlando Garrido
6-0
?
Round 3
Wieslaw Gasiorek 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Svyatoslav Petrovich Mirza 1 *
Andrei Potanin
3-6
6-4
6-8
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Francis Nys 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-4
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Karl-Heinz Rast
6-2
6-2
6-0
Round 2
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Werner Rautenberg
7-5
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Andras Szikszai
6-3
6-1
6-8
6-0
Semifinals
Ion Tiriac 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-1
6-1
6-1
Final
Toomas Lejus 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-4
1-6
6-4
6-0
Unknown
Wilhelm Bungert 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-3
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Richard Schonborn (Schönborn) 1 *
Andrei Potanin
4-6
7-5
6-3
3-6
7-5
Round 1
Jean Noel Grinda 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-1
6-3
6-1
Round 1
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Mirek Kizlink
6-4
6-3
Round 2
Barry MacKay 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-3
6-1
Round 3
Andrei Potanin 1 *
John W. (Jack) Frost
3-6
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Alex Olmedo 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-3
6-4
Semifinals
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Viktor Anisimov
6-2
9-7
6-4
Final
Mikhail I. Mozer 1 *
Andrei Potanin
9-7
8-6
6-2
Round 1
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Mr. Zarb
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Mr. Yohanes
6-0
6-3
Quarterfinals
Maurizio Drisaldi 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-8
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Andrzej Licis 1 *
Andrei Potanin
4-6
6-3
10-8
Round 1
Narendra Nath 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-0
6-2
Final
Sergei Sergeyevich Andreev 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-2
6-8
6-3
5-7
6-4
Round 1
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Mr. Chlop
7-5
6-3
Quarterfinals
Paul Remy 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-4
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Vasile Serester
6-0
6-0
Semifinals
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Ion Tiriac
6-3
6-4
Final
Andrei Potanin 1 *
Sergei Likhachev
7-5
6-4
Round 2
Gerhard Strache 1 *
Andrei Potanin
6-0
6-1
6-0