U-Pavel Free wayekho ekuzalweni kwentombi yakhe, waze waqhawula intambo, yena ngokwakhe wathi kubathetheli:
"Ndandisebenza emsebenzini ekamelweni lokusebenza. Ngaba wayengumntu wokuqala owambona, engabali oogqirha. Waye waguqa intambo. Kodwa kuthatha ixesha ukuqonda. Ngakolunye uhlangothi, luvuyo olukhulu. Kwakukho omnye umntu kwintsapho yam, kwiplanethi. Olu lonwabo olukhulu ยป
Ngendlela, unyana omdala womdlali weHockey, oneminyaka emibini kuphela emdala kunodade, naye wabizwa ngokuba nguyise owaziwayo-uPavel. Ngokwabawo, ukuzalwa kwonyana wakhe kwaba yinto ebalulekileyo kakhulu kuye. Le ndoda izama ukunika iPavel encinci ixesha elininzi ngangokunokwenzeka - udlala, uhamba, uhlamba kwaye umbeka embhedeni.
Umfazi wasePavel waseKhenn khumbuza abalandeli baka-Anna Kournikova
Ngomfazi wakhe u-Alina Hasanova, umdlali odlala umdlalo webhola lebhola e-Turkey. Esi sibini sidibana nonyaka kunye nesiqingatha ngaphambi kokumisa ngokusemthethweni umanyano wabo ngo-Oktobha 2009. Intsha iququzelele imitshato emibini - enye eMiami, yesibini - eMoscow. Kwintsimi enkulu, kwisiganeko sokubhiyozela, malunga neendwendwe ezingama-300 ezidibeneyo, phakathi kwabo abaninzi abadumileyo babonwa.
Umfazi wasePavel waseFransi uneminyaka engama-15 emncinci kuye. Ngendlebe ndlebe, umdlali weHockey uvume ukuba u-Alina wayeyindoda ebemkhangela yona:
"Ndivuyiswa gqitha kukuba mna u-Alina, oqhelekileyo uhambelana neerameters endizilungiselele entloko yam"
Ngelo xesha, umgijimi wachaza ukuba ngexesha lokuphila kwabo kunye, umfazi akazange atshintshe nonke, njengoko kwenzeka rhoqo kwimitshato.
Amazwi kaPawulos athi umfazi uhambelana nemimiselo ethile, kunye neefoto ze-Alina, zabangela ukuba abasebenzisi be-Intanethi bacinge ukuba i-"parameters" ehambelana ngokupheleleyo no-Anna Kournikova, kunye ne-Free ine-novel enkulu. Njengoko uyazi, ngoFebruwari 2000, umdlali wenza isiphakamiso kumdlali we-tennis kwindawo yokutyela eMiami. Nangona ukuba yonke imiboniso yomtshato yayiphathelele umtshato ozayo kaPavel no-Anna, lo mbhangqwana waphula umnyaka kamva.