Boris Borovsky

Boris Markovich Borovsky (Russian: Борис Маркович Боровский; 14 April 1939, Alma-Ata, USSR) is a Russian tennis player and sports journalist; Master of Sports of the USSR; member of the Russian Union of Journalists.

Early life

Born in Alma-Ata and interested in sports, he started playing tennis at school, taking part in competitions with Anna Dmitrieva.

In 1956, Borovsky won the first gold medal at the Games of the peoples of the USSR, and two years later became a regularly called up to the men's team of the USSR.

Career

Later Boris repeatedly was the winner or the winner of various national competitions, as well as participated in international tournaments.

Since the late 1950s, Borovsky began to try sports journalism: first preparing a small materials and notes for the sports editors of various media and for some time collaborating with Radio in the Soviet Union.

In 1962 Boris graduated from the Moscow Technological Institute of Food Industry.

From 1966 to 1989 he worked on Borovsky on Radio Yunost, and later worked with the Radio Rossii (first as political commentator, and then - as a sport). In 1998, Boris, together with a group organized the first disabled sport radio in the country and spent two years working on it.

In the late 1990s, Boris began to cooperate with the Russian-language version of the Eurosport TV channels (Borovsky is known as the first journalist, aired on Eurosport channels with commentary in Russian), soon becoming one of the regular commentators tennis ether channels. In the mid-2000s, Borovsky also worked for television broadcasts of tennis on Russia-2.

Family

Boris has four children: Elena (1971), Vladimir and Fedor (both 1976), Ivan (1989).