Sports star: Anna Kournikova Tennis Star Profile Biography And Pictures

Wednesday 17 August 2011

Anna Kournikova Tennis Star Profile Biography And Pictures

Anna Kournikova

Profile:

Country Russia / United States
Residence Miami, Florida, United States
Date of birth 7 June 1981 (1981-06-07) (age 29)
Place of birth Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro October 1995
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money US$3,584,662

Biography:

At age five received the first tennis racket. This was offered by parents who had to sell the television to buy. Initially, the idea was just that parents do physical exercise. Little Anna began playing in a club at the foot of your home, while continuing their studies. But the age of eleven he moved with his mother to Florida in the U.S. so he could improve himself with a reputable trainer. The training paid off and at 14 won the Federation Cup at the invitation of Russian selection. Kournikova became the youngest tennis player ever to win the competition. In 1995 he won the European Championships for players under 18
Aged 15, the young Russian female international debut at the circuit, the WTA, U.S. Open, where he was eliminated by Germany’s Steffi Graf, at that time No. 1. But even then, was considered the best rookie season. The following year, their performance improved and reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, England, and won a race in Tokyo in the doubles category alongside American Monica Seles. Good results have become a constant and finally reached the top 10 ranking females.

At 18 he won for the first time a professional tournament in Midland, the U.S. state of Michigan as well as achieved the first victory in a race grand slam (the four most important tournaments of the season) by beating the side of the Martina Hingis category of dual Australian Open Australian Open. At that time, ended the year ranked first in women’s doubles. In 2000 he returned to tenth place ranking individual at a time when it was coached by his mother, his greatest triumphs was when he played in doubles, especially with where Hingis came to be world number 1 in the WTA rankings in 2000.

Alongside the sporting career was devoted to advertising, participating in campaigns as a model for several reputable brands and appearing on the covers of countless magazines, such attitudes ultimately generating numerous criticisms that have never won any tournament in singles and wore her physical beauty to promote easily worldwide, coupled with this and some subsequent injuries forced an abrupt career end in 2003.

Anna Kournikova took part along with Martina Hingis in an exhibition game in the Gym Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo in November 2000, years later he returned for another presentation in Rio de Janeiro where he played on a court built on the beach.

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