Anna Kournikova Tennis Career
At the age of 13 and 14 years Kournikova was the best young tennis player, gaining some glory between which the International tournaments of Italy in 1995. She was only 14 years old when she has won the Under 18 European Champion and Champion of World ITF Under 18.
Kournikova make her debut in professional tennis at 14 years old, playing for Russia in Fed Cup, the young player have participated and won. On the age of 15 years caught up the fourth turn of the US Open of 1996. She was then defeateated by Steffi Graf.
Anna Kournikova made part of the Russian delegation that took part to the Olympic Games Atlanta. In 1997, at the age of 16 years old, she was in the semifinals at Wimbledon, where she lost against Martina Hingis, for 6-3, 6-2. 1998 was the best year of her carrier. She then entered for the first time in the first 20 positions of WTA and she obtained important victories against Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport and Steffi Graf. The two titles them of the Great Slam, in the feminine double quantity, were obtained in 1999 and 2002, both to the Australian Open with Martina Hingis, with which 1999 often played beginning from.
Kournikova was succeeding in the circuit of the female double , gaining 16 tournaments, between which the two Australian Open, arriving in end in the mixed double quantity to the US Open and Wimbledon, becomeing even the first tennis player in the WTA ranking. Her career in double was of 200 victories and 71 defeats. In compensation, in singular her career it caught up the peak in 1999-2000. For the majority of the time she was between tenth and the fifteenth not winning tournament of the world-wide ranking: the best obtained position was eighth, caught up 20 November of 2000 and caught up 4 ends on 130 tournament but nobody in the Great Slam. Kournikova was famous for the speed of race, the aggressive game from deep field and the excellent angles and drop shot; in compensation, risky her low-pass filter and much stretched to produce many errors and the service was sometimes weak in singular. Her result in singular is of 203 victories and 129 defeats.
Kournikova's last years of career were marked with many accidents, above all to the back, they removed than it from the summits of the ranking. Kournikova does not play in Tour WTA from 2003, but she still plays match of exhibition for beneficence.
At the end of 2004 she participated to three organized events from Elton John and the players Serene Williams and Andy Roddick. In January 2005 she has played in double for charity in favor of the victims of the Maremoto of the Indian Ocean with John McEnroe, Roddick and Chris Evert.
In November 2005, with Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova played against Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in ends WTT for beneficence. Kournikova makes also part of the Sacramento Capitals in the World Team Tennis, only playing in doubles.
In an article on ELLE in July 2005, Kournikova has declared that if she were to be at 100% of her form she would return to play.
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