001PIC.COM: Anna Kournikova

The Little Kournikova

Anna was born to this world at June 7, 1981 in Moscow. Her parents name are Sergei (a wrestling athlete) and Alla. It was Alla, her mother who introduce her to this game. She starts to learn to play lawn tennis at her age of five just after their parents sold their TV set to buy Anna the racket for Christmas present. Her first experiences she made in the Tennis Club Soklniki Park and then was practising in the Spartak Club. She was coached by the husband of Olga Morozova (Morozova was a professional russian tennis-player). She starts her career when she's spotted by IMG Agents, and the took her to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy

in Bradenton, Florida, it was in the year of 1992. At the age of ten she moves to Florida, US, with her mother, Alla and left her father, Sergei in Russia.

The Career

When Anna was only 13 years old she made it to the final in the Rolex Orange Bowl tournament. There she unfortunately 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 tournament's history. But the revenge 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 Yugoslavia, 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 quarter 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 talent she was. In 1996, Anna turned professional and it didn't take long time before Anna stood as the champion of her first tournament as a pro. This happened in a ITF Women's 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 Women's 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 qualifying matches in the tournament, Anna made it to the fourth round where she unfortunately lost to number one seed, Steffi Graf, which later on won the whole tournament. Anna ranking at this time was 144. But with a lovely tennis so in 1997, Anna moved up to the top 25 on the

world ranking list. In 1997 a semi-finalist in Wimbledon boasted Anna ranking even high. Other good showings have put her rank at 11. And her coach Bollettieri predicts her to be a future top 10 player. And that don't seem to far away. And with that talent that Anna has, in the future she will be a serious contender to the number one spot in the women's tennis.

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