Russian Cup (tennis)
The Russian Cup (; ) is an annual major national Russian sports award given to tennis players, coaches, companies and other organizations and people that contributed to the development of this sport in Russia. The cup was established in 1994 by then-Vice President of the Russian Tennis Federation Dmitry Vikharev and the President of IC Arman. It was organized by Anatoly Gusev in the following two years, and after his death in 1996 his wife Lyudmila Guseva and businessman Alexander Cherkasov continued its organization. Since 1998, the committee includes such major tennis people as President of the RTF  Shamil Tarpishchev. In 1998 the place for the ceremony was relocated from the Cinema Centre "Solovey" on the Krasnaya Presna to the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel. Only once, in 2003, was the award presented in the Cinema House in Moscow. The awardee receives a statue illustrating the Russian two-headed eagle, which was created by designer Igor Kamenev. It can't be bought although it exists in the catalog of its supplier. The Kremlin Cup was named top tournament nine times, once as the organizer of the professional and the junior events. Awardees. 2020. The ceremony was postponed to 2021 due  to a lack of tournaments held because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021. The offline ceremony wasn't held due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia but the awards were presented through a documentary (online ceremony analogue).