Anna Kournikova Personal Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Her career began rapidly, but no less dizzying peak followed the dizzying take -off. Not justifying the hopes assigned to her, in the year she left the Great Tennis, exchanging him for personal happiness and career of the fashion model. Childhood and the first steps on the court Anna Kournikova was born on June 7 in Moscow.

Her path, it seemed, was predetermined from the first months: mother, Alla Kurnikova, was a coach for a large tennis, father, Sergey Kurtnikov, professionally engaged in wrestling later taught at the Academy of Physical Education. At one time, the head of the family sold the TV to buy his daughter two of her first rackets, waiting for 5-year-old Anya under the New Year tree.

Kournikova began to engage in tennis intensively, and by the age of seven the most promising students of the Spartak tennis club. Anna Kournikova with her parents on the court she felt easily and confident, but tennis lessons for a long time were just a hobby for her. Everything changed in the m year, when Anna won an open tennis tournament in Moscow. The moment has become a turning point in her life and career, forever connected the life of young Ani Kournikova with professional tennis.

Children's photos of Anna Kournikova in the press were extended by rumors that the first sponsor of Anna was the criminal authority of Yakov Hoffmann, in the period for a year, madly in love with her mother. Young Anna Kurnikova and Yakov Hoffmann in the year of a ten -year athlete proposed a scholarship of the famous American Tennis Academy Nika Bolletieri. Kournikova and her mother moved to Florida.

A small town of Braidenton, where the academy was located, became the second house for a young girl. Soon, she already spoke English perfectly and spent all her time among new friends. In the year, Anna Kournikova moved to the USA in M ​​Anya won the large Les Petits AS tournament, which in the sports world is considered an unofficial world championship in the age category up to fourteen.

The next year has also become successful for her: having won the Junior championship of Italy, the Orange Bowl tournament, as well as in some other prestigious competitions, Anna Kournikova received the title of ITF champion of the International Tennis Federation among juniors. Other significant achievements of her junior career, Stalm, semifinals and the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tournament and the opening championship of France.

So by the fourteen years of Kournikov, he was affirmed in the role of a professional tennis player and the rising star of world sports. In the same year, a fifteen -year -old tennis player reached the fourth round of the US Open Championship, where she lost only the legendary Steffi Count. In the same year, Anya as part of the Russian national team went to the Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Thus, she became the youngest athlete who ever performed in the ranks of the Russian Olympians. Young Anna Kournikova in M ​​Kournikova reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon tournament, and a year later she rose in the first twenty world rating.

Pares with experienced Martina Hingis, the girl won the opening championship of Australia and established herself on the first line of the paired rating. In M, she made an unprecedented breakthrough and in a single discharge, rose to the eighth line of the WTA world ranking and won several large international tournaments. Wimbledon Anna Kurnikova vs Martina Hingis by her triumphant rising to the top of the rating was prevented by her injury to the legs received in the year, but a year later, recovering from the damage, she began to collect rating glasses again, in particular, became the winner of the Kremlin Cup and the open championship of Australia in the pair of pair.

In the year, the tennis player injured her back, because of which she had to leave big sport. The modeling business and social life while still tennis players, Anna Kournikova heard many reproaches in her address due to supposedly neglect of a sports career. According to her critics, the girl was too carried away by filming in advertising and gloss, pushing tennis to the background.

Anna Kournikova, in his youth without makeup, according to experts, earned about a million dollars on the Tennis player court. Where a large amount went from the sponsors. So, in the year she was paid 6 million feet for an advertising contract with the manufacturer of sports bras. Anna Kournikova’s photo shoot for Adidas, however, Anna seems to have not noticed critical arguments of the Russian sports community.

For four years, the famous PEOPLE magazine included Kurnikov in the top of the most beautiful girls of the planet. The tennis player was one of the sexiest girls of the planet in the year of tennis player rose to the southern line in the consolidated rating of celebrities of Forbes magazine, and led the list of the sexual beauties of the planet, compiled by the FHM magazine.Anna Kournikova in the film “I, I and Irene” in the year she announced the end of the tennis player’s career and began to professionally engage in modeling business and regularly appear on the pages of secular chronicles, although she supported the sports uniform and occasionally participated in demonstrative and charitable tournaments along with other former tennis stars.

Personal life, Anna Kournikova now throughout his career, Anna Kournikova’s personal life attracted more attention than her sports feats. Anna Kournikova. The interview with Iglesias Kournikov met a year, and in May the tabloids distributed information about the upcoming wedding. Soon this information was also confirmed by close friends and relatives of the former tennis player.

Who his father is not known to the public. In the year, Anna's mother was almost in prison - she was accused of careless treatment of her child. She left her son unattended and went to the store, and at that time the boy fell out the window from the second floor. Anna Kournikova and his brother Allan in December of the year Kurnikova and Iglesias became parents - they had heaved Gemini Nicholas and Lucy.

Anna Kournikova in his youth and now, and at the beginning of the year, the spouses had another daughter - Mary. The couple brings up children in a multicultural atmosphere: they calmly speak Russian, English and Spanish. Anna Kournikova now has long moved away from professional tennis. Now the family occupies her thoughts. Anna leads a personal blog, where she shares the touching personnel of children growing up.

The twins of Anna Kournikova matured.