Anna Kournikova Russian ProffessionTennis Player

Anna Kournikova was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on June 7, 1981. Her father, Sergei Kournikov, was 20 at the time. Sergei, a former Greco-Roman wrestling champion, had earned a Ph.D. and was a professor at the University of Physical Culture and Sport in Moscow. As of 2001, he was still a part-time martial arts instructor there. Her mother Alla, who was 18 when Anna was born, had been a 400-meter runner. Sergei said: "We were young and we liked the clean, physical life, so Anna was in a good environment for sport from the beginning. The family name is spelled in Russian without an "o", so a direct transliteration would be "Kurnikov", and it is sometimes written that way. But it is pronounced "Kournikov", so the family chose that as their English spelling. Anna received her first tennis racquet as a New Year gift in 1986 at age 5. Anna says: "I played two times a week from age five. It was a children's program. And it was just for fun; my parents didn't know I was going to play professionally, they just wanted me to do something because I had lots of energy. It was only when I started playing well at seven that I went to a professional academy. I would go to school, and then my parents would take me to the club, and I'd spend the rest of the day there just having fun with the kids. In 1986, Anna became a member of the prestigious Spartak Tennis Club, coached by Larissa Preobrazhenskaya. In 1989, at the age of eight, Anna Kournikova began appearing in junior tournaments, and by the following year, was attracting attention from tennis scouts across the world. Anna signed a management deal at age ten and went to Bradenton, Florida to train at Nick Bollettieri's celebrated tennis academy......

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Nationality: RUS (Russian Federation)
Birthdate: March 05, 1987
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Residence: Moscow, Russia
Turned Pro: Pro (2003)
Plays: Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
2008 Ranking: 18
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Coached by Robert Lansdorp
Parents' names are Djambuli and Natalia; has one younger brother, Roman
Introduced to tennis at age 8 by mother
Attends Moscow University; speaks Russian, English
Favorites include detective novels, all types of music, the movie Troy, soccer
Relaxes by spending time with friends
Before tennis, hobbies included played piano.
Biographical information from WTA. Unless noted otherwise all data as of year-end 2008

Anna Chakvetadze Russian Tennis Player

Russia tennis player Anna Chakvetadze escaped unharmed after several men broke into her house in southwest Moscow early on Tuesday, police said.

Five to six unknown people wearing masks climbed over the fence of the country house at about 4:00am Moscow time, then broke into the house and tied her parents up," a police spokesman was quoted as saying by the Russian media.

"They took money and valuables worth some five million roubles ($A234,041)."

Her father Jamal appeared on Russian television, showing scabbed-over bruises on his scalp, cheek and forehead.

"They started to beat me up, I resisted, then they hit me either with their hands or a pistol," Jamal Chakvetadze told Russian television.

"It was dark, told me I had a child there, reminded me about it, so that I gave them everything. So I did."

Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpishchev later said that 20-year-old Chakvetadze was not hurt in the incident.

"The most important thing was that no one was hurt. I was told Anna didn't even try to resist the robbers," Tarpishchev said.

Police later said they were looking for suspects but gave no details.
World No.6 Chakvetadze has won four singles titles this year, earning more than $US1.4 million ($1.64 million) in prize money.

This was the latest in a series of violent crimes against high-profile sports figures in Russia and other former Soviet republics in recent years.
Former world top-10 player Andrei Chesnokov was seriously wounded in a shooting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk in November 2005.
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Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina (Анастасия Мыскина [ɐnəstɐˈsʲijə ˈmɨskʲɪnə]; born July 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam event. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to reach the top three in the history of the rankings. In September 2004 she reached a career high of No.2, but she has not played professional tennis since 2007, and has stated she does not know whether she will return or not. Injury has prevented her from advancing for the past several years.Myskina only played two singles matches, having been injured. She lost both of those matches; including to Meghann Shaughnessy at the French Open, only winning a game.[1][2]2005 brought Myskina mixed fortunes. She spent the first half of 2005 poorly, due to personal issues regarding her mother's health. Myskina surrendered her Doha and Roland Garros titles in the very first round, and became the first Roland Garros champion to lose in the opening round. Bringing an 8-10 win-loss record to the beginning of the grass court season, Myskina managed to turn it around at Wimbledon by reaching her career-first quarterfinal at the event with three comeback wins over Jelena Janković (from a 1–5 final set deficit), and over Dementieva (being 1–6, 0–3 down and facing match points in the second set tiebreak). She fell out of the Top 10 in August. She then won a tenth career title in Kolkata beating lower-ranked opponents. As of July 25, 2007, Myskina fell to the same ranking as the wildcard she lost to, Agnieszka Radwańska, of Number 309. She also is unranked for doubles. Myskina is taking time off due to a career-threatening injury.[3][4]
Her German coach, Jens Gerlach, is also a former boyfriend.[5] Myskina also dated HC Dynamo Moscow hockey player Aleksandr Stepanov,[6] and she has also been linked to Austrian tennis pro Jürgen Melzer.[7]2006 was another disappointing season for Myskina. Having had several chances to return to the Top 10, she failed to convert any of them. In Warsaw, she suffered her worst defeat in terms of the rankings on WTA Tour level, falling to a wild card, Agnieszka Radwańska, ranked No. 309. She showed splashes of her old form during the grass season, having reached the Eastbourne final beautifully, losing to Justine Henin in a close final concluded in a third set tiebreak. She made the Wimbledon quarterfinals, but lost to eventual champion Amélie Mauresmo in three sets. She had solid performance at the first two Grand Slams, making the 4th round on each occasion. After Wimbledon, her game completely fall apart.
In October 2002, Myskina had a series of photos taken for GQ magazine by the photographer Mark Seliger for a spread in the October 2002 edition of GQ, in which one approved photo of her fully clothed was published. After she won the French Open in 2004, some photographs from the shoot, in which she appeared topless, were published in the July/August 2004 issue of the Russian magazine Medved (Bear).
2004 was Myskina's best season to date. Myskina successfully defended her Doha title, afterwards becoming the second Russian woman to break into the Top 5, the first was Natasha Zvereva, who rose to number 5 in the World in May 1989. The highlight of Myskina's 2004 season was a victory at the French Open, where she saved match points in the fourth round against Svetlana Kuznetsova, then defeated former world number 1 players Venus Williams and Jennifer Capriati, en route to a 6–1, 6–2 victory over compatriot Elena Dementieva in the first all-Russian Grand Slam final, thus making her the first female Russian to win a Grand Slam singles title. Prior to her French Open victory, she had never made it past the 2nd round at Roland Garros.

Anastasia Myskina

Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina (Анастасия Мыскина [ɐnəstɐˈsʲijə ˈmɨskʲɪnə]; born July 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam event. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to reach the top three in the history of the rankings. In September 2004 she reached a career high of No.2, but she has not played professional tennis since 2007, and has stated she does not know whether she will return or not. Injury has prevented her from advancing for the past several years.

Her German coach, Jens Gerlach, is also a former boyfriend. Myskina also dated HC Dynamo Moscow hockey player Aleksandr Stepanov,[6] and she has also been linked to Austrian tennis pro Jürgen Melzer.

In October 2002, Myskina had a series of photos taken for GQ magazine by the photographer Mark Seliger for a spread in the October 2002 edition of GQ, in which one approved photo of her fully clothed was published. After she won the French Open in 2004, some photographs from the shoot, in which she appeared topless, were published in the July/August 2004 issue of the Russian magazine Medved (Bear). In August 2004, she filed an $8 million USD lawsuit against the men’s magazine GQ for allowing her topless photographs to appear in a Russian magazine Medved without her consent. On June 19, 2005, U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey, later United States Attorney General, ruled that Anastasia Myskina could not stop the distribution of the topless photos, because she had signed a release. Myskina had claimed that she did not understand the photo release form and that she was not fluent in English at the time.

Myskina announced that she was pregnant with her first child, due in May 2008. She has previously dated Russian hockey player Konstantin Korneyev, but refuses to state the name of the father. On April 28, 2008 Myskina gave birth to her first child, a boy named Zhenya.
Jelena Dokic in Rome (entered Top 20 afterwards); reached back-to-back grass-court finals in Birmingham and Eastbourne (rose to No.15 in the rankings); won first Tier II title in Bahia; another runner-up finish in Leipzig confirmed her spot in WTA Tour Championships; finished the season within Top 15 for the first time.
2003 - Reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal in Melbourne Park. After claiming the title in Doha (defeated Elena Likhovtseva in the first all-Russian final in WTA history) she cracked the Top 10. Established her place among the game elite with a win in Sarasota. Mediocre results during the summer season were followed by a quarterfinal appearance at the US Open, back-to-back titles in Leipzig (defeating No.1 Kim Clijsters and No.2 Justine Henin-Hardenne) and Moscow (first Tier I title; became the first Russian woman to win Kremlin Cup), and finals in Philadelphia. Qualified for the Tour Championships. Earned more than $1 million in prize money and finished the year in the Top 10 for the first time in her career.
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Anabel Medina Garrigues Tennis Player

Defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues was eliminated in the second round of the Grand Prix Sar, losing 6-3, 6-2 to Laura Pous Tio in an all-Spanish match.
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No. 5 Angelique Kerber of Germany also reached the quarterfinals by beating Serbia’s Bojana Jovanovski 6-2, 6-2. Alize Cornet of France, Czech player Renata Voracova and Romania’s Simona Halep also advanced
Pous Tio will play No. 7 Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic, who beat Claire De Gubernatis of France 6-2, 6-4.
The third-seeded Medina Garrigues, who won her ninth career title at Fez last year, faced 16 break points and lost her serve seven times to Pous Tio, a qualifier ranked 192nd in the world.

Top-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain retired from her match Wednesday when she was leading 6-5 against Britain’s Anne Keothavong, and No. 2 Patty Schnyder of Switzerland struggled to beat Ioana Raluca Olaru of Romania 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

The tournament is the only WTA Tour stop in Africa.
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Ana Ivanović (born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a former World No. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of February 14, 2011, she is ranked World No. 19 on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open.
Ivanović’s mother Dragana, a lawyer, supports her daughter during most of her matches. Her father Miroslav, a self-employed businessman, attends as many events as he possibly can. Ana has a younger brother, Miloš, with whom she loves to play basketball. Aside from her tennis career, Ivanović also studies finance at a university in Belgrade and Spanish in her spare time. Her inspiration to begin playing was that time Serbian player, Monika Seleš.
On September 8, 2007, Ivanović became a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Aleksandar Đorđević, Jelena Janković and Emir Kusturica. She takes a special interest in the fields of education and child protection. Ivanović visited a primary school in Serbia during her inauguration and said that she is “also looking forward to going into the classroom and meeting many kids.”
Ivanović confirmed in November 2008 that she was romantically involved with Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasco, but it was reported that the relationship ended in January 2009. Ivanović was then in a relationship with Australian golf player Adam Scott but their relationship apparently ended in August 2010.[10] Some of her best friends include close childhood family friend Novak Djokovic, whom she has known since the age of 4, and current ATP World No. 1 Rafael Nadal.

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