In 2011, she coached Russian tennis player Margarita Gasparyan.

[1] In Russia, despite her modest popularity as a top-50 player, Makarova is well-known for providing her explanation for the issue of LGBT-athletes being more common among female tennis players than on the ATP Tour (while the most popular example was Toomas Leius according to the locally popular 1993 short story Fugue with [Male] Tennis Player by Mikhail Veller).

[4] She said the following: “When you get tired after a match or training, you no longer want to dress up or go to a party.

Besides, you can't afford to take your beloved man with you — he has to work himself".

The last part has been clarified to mean that "most female tennis players cannot afford traveling with their beloved man financially".