Dmitry Tursunov – ATP Player with a career-high ranking of World No. 20 (October 2006)

Best career decision?

DMITRY TURSUNOV: I believe that when I chose, albeit late in my career, to go see Jan de Witt (Breakpoint Academy Halle, Germany) that was a great decision. Unfortunately, he was very busy coaching Jarkko (Nieminen) and Gilles (Simon) so he could not really commit to me. He did travel to a couple of tournaments with me and I got a lot of out of it. Jan spoke to me in an unique way. He had the ability to communicate exactly what I needed to hear, and nothing that I did not need to hear. It was a great decision, just that I wish that I could have had more time with him.

Any regrets?

DT: It is really hard looking back to see if I would have done this or that differently, how would the outcome have been. Who can say for sure? But, I wish that I would have taken more risks. Maybe shot selection on big points or off-court choices with career decisions. And also I could have trusted people more. All my life, I have really struggled to put my faith in many people. Looking back now clearly without emotion, I can see that probably those two areas would have made a bigger difference.