Date of Birth:7 June 1981, Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Birth Name:
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova
Nickname:
Murzik ("my little pet" in Russian)
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Weight : 56 kg (120 lb)
Country : Russia
Residence: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Turned pro : October 1995
Plays Right: Two-handed backhand
Career prize money : US$3,584,662
Singles:
Career record 209–129
Career titles 0 WTA, 2 ITF[1]
Highest ranking No. 8 (November 20, 2000)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open QF (2001)
French Open 4R (1998, 1999)
Wimbledon SF (1997)
US Open 4R (1996, 2002)
Major tournaments
WTA Championships SF (2000)
Olympic Games 1R (1996)
Doubles
Career record 200–71
Career titles 16 WTA[1]
Highest ranking No. 1 (November 22, 1999)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (1999, 2002)
French Open F (1999)
Wimbledon SF (2000, 2002)
US Open QF (1996, 2002)
Major doubles tournaments
WTA Championships W (1999, 2000)
Last updated on: October 29, 2008.
Biography:
Tennis player. Born Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova on June 7, 1981, in Moscow, Russia. The daughter of Alla and Sergei Kournikov, Anna began playing competitive tennis early on. She was competing in the juniors by age nine and within two years, she was headed to the U.S. to train at Nick Bollettieri's famed Florida tennis academy. She subsequently won several international junior tennis tournaments and was declared the Junior European Champion and Junior World Champion in 1995.
At age 15, Kournikova reached the fourth round of the U.S. Open, and at age 16 she reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon. In 1999, she won two Grand Slam doubles titles with partner Martina Hingis. However, in 130 singles tournaments she only reached the finals four times, never winning, and spent the bulk of her career ranked out of the top thirty.
Despite her losing record, Kournikova’s fame grew steadily thanks to her modeling career and publicity surrounding her personal life. This media attention often focused on romantic liaisons with such celebrities as pop star Enrique Iglesias and hockey player Sergei Fedorov. She has also attempted a career in acting, appearing briefly in 2000’s Me, Myself and Irene. Kournikova has retired from the WTA tour, but continues to plays exhibition matches for charitable causes.
Trade Mark: Long blonde hair
Trivia:
Is an only child.
Ex-tennis player.
Named one of "People" magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 1998.
Graduated from a Russian high school in 1997, and has attended Russian University of Physical Culture since 1997.
Dated Pavel Bure and childhood sweetheart Sergei Fedorov at the same time. Fedorov told The Hockey News that he and Kournikova had secretly married in July 2001, but were divorced shortly thereafter; Kournikova has never confirmed this.
2002: Appears in the new Enrique Iglesias video "Escape".
Her fastest serve was clocked at 111.2 mph during the Paris Indoors of 1998.
May 2002: has been voted "the sexiest woman in the world" in the magazine "FHM" (Australian version).
Has never won a major tennis tournament, as of January 2004.
It is announced that Kournikova was voted the Sexiest Woman in the World in FHM's 100 Sexiest Girls poll for 2002, American edition. [May 2002]
Knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round. [June 2002]
Ranked 299th in the world (as of October 2003).
Has a tattoo of a sun design on her lower back, which made its "debut" at the 2003 Australian Open. Oddly, she denied having it, telling reporters that it was actually a heat patch to treat back pain.
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