DAVIS CUP FINALS

November 28, 2021

Yuriy Schukin

Aleksandr Nedovyesov

Andrey Golubev

Team Kazakhstan

Press Conference

GOLUBEV-NEDOVYESOV/Polansky-Schnur

6-4, 6-7, 6-1

Kazakhstan - 3

Canada - 0

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English.

Q. Yuriy, can I just get your thoughts on the day and how happy you are to have finished top of the group?

YURIY SCHUKIN: Well, it's a tough two days. I'm really happy that we come through in this group.

Well, I'm happy for my team that it was good performance from them, good matches. Just happy, and we're gonna have couple days off that we can think about next match, we can relax, and we can practice. It's good (smiling).

Q. A question for both Andrey and Aleksandr. This is now the sixth time into the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup for Kazakhstan. I'm just wondering, at what point does that not become enough? How desperate are you to push on and go one step further this time?

ALEKSANDR NEDOVYESOV: To be honest, it's never enough. Of course one of the goals were to go through the group, to play the quarterfinal. But like I said yesterday, once we are there in the quarterfinal, of course we want to achieve more and more. We never been playing in the semis. We have been really close few times but never couldn't actually get to it.

So of course this is going to be goal No. 1 now to get to the semis for the first time, and I think the quarterfinal is already good achievement. We prove, as I said already -- you said seventh time? We prove again that we are tough team to beat. Of course we're gonna try our best to advance to the semis.

Q. Obviously we don't know your opponents yet, but how are you going to spend the next few days? What is the key to actually trying to make it one step further this time?

ANDREY GOLUBEV: Well, tomorrow for sure we are going to recover from these two days. Just maybe easy practice, you know, just doing our things we're going to. By tonight I guess we will know our opponent, so we're going to prepare like mentally strategy, whatever. Tuesday I guess some practice, some court. Wednesday back with the fire (smiling).