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Anna Kournikova Bio
Anna began playing tennis when she was only five years old. When Anna was nine years old, she was spotted playing in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, by IMG Agents. They took her to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
When Anna was only 13 years old she made it to the final in the Rolex Orange Bowl tournament. There she unfortunatley lost to 18 year old Spaniard Marion Ramon, 7-5,6-4. If Anna had won the match she would have been the youngest winner in the tournamentЄs history. But the revange for Anna would come as soon as the next year. Then Anna made it all the way to the final again and there she defeated Sandra Nacuk of yougoslavia, 6-3,6-2. The same year, Anna also won the European Championships, and the 1995 Italian Open Juniors. She made it to the semi final in the juniors Wimbledon, and Anna also was a French Open Juniors quater finalist. She ended 1995 as the ITF Junior world Champion ranked No.1.
With a terrific play through the all of 1995, Anna really showed what a great tennis player and big talant she was. In 1996, Anna turned professional and it didnЄt took long time before Anna stod as the champion of her first tournament as a pro. This happened in a ITF WomenЄs Circuit Satellite event in Midland, Michigan, USA, where she qualified in to the tournament and then went all the way to a terrific win over Lindsay Lee in the final. Later on the same year Anna took her second tournament win as a pro. As the fifth seed, she earned the win of an ITF WomenЄs Circuit Satellite event in Rockford, Illinois, USA. Anna also made her Grand Slam debut in 1996. This was in the U.S. Open. After winning her first three qualifing matches in the tournament, Anna made it to the fourth round where she unfortunatley lost to number one seed, Steffi Graaf, wich later on won the hole tournament. Anna ranking at this time was 144.
But with a lovely tennis so far in the 1997, Anna has moved up to the top 50 on the world ranking list. And her coach Bollettieri predicts her to be a future top 10 player. Anna coutinued her -97 season with great play. The highlight came in Wimbledon where she became the second woman in the Open Era to reach the Wimbledon semifinals in her career debut in the tournament, upset fifth-ranked Iva Majoli in the quarterfinals and 10th-ranked Anke Huber in the third round; came back from match point down in the second round to defeat Barbara Rittner. Unfortunatley she lost in the semifinals to world number one, Martina Hingis. But she still can be very satisfied with her play through 1997. Six of her seven losses in 1997 were to players in the Top 10.
And with that talant Anna got I think she in the future will be a serious contender to the world number one spot in the womenЄs tennis. Anna is not only a great tennis player, sheЄs got the look to and sheЄs very nice to watch, anyway thatЄs what i think. I wish her all of luck in the future. GO ANNA!
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