NY Times · Sep 7, 2017
Bag? Check. Racket? Check. Dog? Of Course.
Svetlana Kuznetsova and her American Bully, Dolce, in a photo from her Instagram account. Kuznetsova had Dolce certified as her emotional support dog, but sometimes the support goes both ways.When Svetlana Kuznetsova had to leave her dog, Dolce, at home in Russia this spring when she left for a tournament in California, she cried.
She cried in the airport. She cried on the plane. And she cried again in her hotel room, a place that can be lonely for Kuznetsova, a former United States Open champion who spends as many as eight months of every year on the road.
“I cried and cried, for three days I cried,” she told me last week.