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Anna Dmitrieva
Dmitrieva in 1968
Full nameAnna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva
Native nameАнна Дмитриева
Country (sports) Soviet Union
ResidenceMoscow, Russia
Born(1940-12-10)10 December 1940
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died24 June 2024 (aged 83)
Retired1973
PlaysLeft-handed (one-handed backhand)[1]
Singles
Career titles12 ITF
Grand Slam singles results
French Open4R (1967)
Wimbledon4R (1960)
US Open4R (1962)
Wimbledon JuniorF (1958)
Doubles
Career titles13 ITF
Grand Slam doubles results
French OpenQF (1968)
WimbledonSF (1963)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
WimbledonQF (1967)

Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (Russian: Анна Владимировна Дми́триева; 10 December 1940 — 24 June 2024) was a tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union, as well as a sports commentator.[2][3]

Biography

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Anna Dmitrieva started playing tennis at the age of 12.[2] In less than a year she had won the Moscow junior championships as a member of the Dynamo team, and the next year she also became Moscow junior singles champion. At the age of 16 she was allowed to play at senior tournaments, and in a year she became champion of Moscow in singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.[2][4]

In 1958, when the USSR joined the International Tennis Federation, Dmitrieva became a member of the first Soviet delegation at the Wimbledon Championships. She reached the final of the junior girls' tournament.

In 1958–1967, Dmitrieva won 18 titles in the Soviet Championships: five times in singles, nine in women's doubles and four times in mixed doubles. In 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1964 she won the championships in all three categories.

Dmitrieva also won the open championships of Czechoslovakia and Hungary (1962), Uganda (1963), and Yugoslavia (1966). She also won the women's tournament at the Queen's Club in 1963 and the Wimbledon Ladies Plate in 1965. She won a number of amateur tournaments in Africa from 1964 to 1968 and the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in Jakarta in 1963.

At the Grand Slam tournaments, her greatest success was reaching the Wimbledon doubles semis in 1963 with Judy Tegart; they lost to the eventual champions Maria Bueno and Darlene Hard. At the Wimbledon Championships, Dmitrieva also reached the quarterfinals twice in ladies' doubles (in 1960 and 1967) and in mixed doubles in 1967 when she and Alexander Metreveli played the longest game in the tournament's history against Bueno and Ken Fletcher. Dmitrieva also played in the French Open doubles quarterfinals in 1968.

After finishing her player's career in the late 1960s, Dmitrieva worked as a tennis coach for four years and then became a sports journalist and commentator for Soviet TV and radio. She started as a commentator on TV in 1976, with Alex Metreveli.[3] After 1993, she worked with NTV,[3][5] Match TV,[6] which she left because the channel stopped covering tennis tournaments, and Eurosport.[7]

Dmitrieva died on 24 June 2024, at the age of 83.[7] She had always been addicted to cigarettes, even while she was actively engaged in sports.[citation needed]

ILTF Career finals

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Singles (12–14)

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Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1. 9 August 1959 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 6–3, 6–1
Loss 2. 1 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 3–6, 6–1, 2–6
Win 3. 7 August 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Czechoslovakia Jirina Elgrová 6–2 6–4
Win 4. 2 July 1961 Budapest, Hungary Clay Hungary Zsuzsa Körmöczy 6–3 6–4
Loss 5. 19 August 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Czechoslovakia Věra Suková 7–5, 1–6, 1–6
Win 6. 11 March 1962 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Italy Lea Pericoli 6–2, 7–5
Loss 7. 16 July 1962 Budapest, Hungary Clay Hungary Zsuzsa Körmöczy 1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss 8. 1 August 1962 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay United Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie 3–6, 0–6
Loss 9. 20 August 1962 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Australia Jan Lehane 3–6, 3–6
Win 10. 2 February 1963 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Irina Ermolova 6–4, 6–3
Loss 11. 10 June 1963 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Czechoslovakia Věra Suková 1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win 12. 8 March 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 8–6, 6–2
Win 13. 18 May 1964 Algiers, Algeria Clay France Françoise Dürr 6–3, 6–2
Win 14. 16 August 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 6–2 6–2
Loss 15. 7 February 1965 Helsinki, Finland Hard (i) United Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie 2–6, 6–1, 3–6
Loss 16. 14 August 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay United Kingdom Ann Jones 1–6, 3–6
Win 17. 18 September 1966 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Clay Czechoslovakia Alena Palmeová 6–2, 6–4
Loss 18. 22 January 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Olga Morozova 7–9, 6–8
Loss 19. 19 February 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva 2–6, 8–10
Win 20. 4 March 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva 9–7, 6–4
Loss 21. 19 March 1967 Alexandria, Egypt Clay West Germany Helga Schultze 6–4, 1–6, 6–8
Loss 22. 27 September 1967 Tbilisi, Soviet Union Clay Soviet Union Olga Morozova 5–7, 6–4, 1–6
Loss 23. 7 January 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Olga Morozova 9–7, 1–6, 8–10
Win 24. 17 March 1968 Alexandria, Egypt Clay United Kingdom Robin Blakelock 6–0, 6–3
Win 25. 6 January 1972 Minsk, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Marina Chuvirina 6–4, 6–2
Loss 26. 27 February 1972 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Eugenia Birioukova 4–6, 3–6

Doubles (15–7)

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Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1. January 1960 Calcutta, India Hard Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Australia Margaret Hellyer
United States Mimi Arnold 		5–7, 2–6
Win 2. January 1960 New Delhi, India Hard Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Australia Margaret Hellyer
United States Mimi Arnold 		4–6, 7–5, 6–0
Win 3. January 1960 Indore, India Hard Soviet Union Irina Ermolova India Dechu Appaiah
India Leela Panjabi 		7–5, 6–1
Win 4. 1 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Soviet Union Vera Filippova
Soviet Union Larissa Preobrazhenskaya 		6–2, 6–2
Loss 5. 8 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Czechoslovakia Věra Suková
Soviet Union Velve Tamm 		6–8, 4–6
Win 6. 7 August 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Soviet Union Vera Filippova
Soviet Union Larissa Preobrazhenskaya 		6–4, 6–4
Win 7. 5 March 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Soviet Union Vera Filippova
Soviet Union Larissa Preobrazhenskaya 		6–0, 6–2
Loss 8. 19 August 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova West Germany Eva Johannes
Czechoslovakia Věra Suková 		6–1, 6–8, 4–6
Win 9. 22 July 1962 Budapest, Hungary Clay Czechoslovakia Jitka Volavková Hungary Klara Bardoczy
Hungary Zsuzsa Körmöczy 		8–6, 6–2
Win 10. 1 August 1962 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Czechoslovakia Jana Volková Czechoslovakia Vlasta Vopičková
Czechoslovakia Jiřina Michlová 		7–5, 6–2
Win 11. 10 June 1963 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Soviet Union Irina Ermolova Czechoslovakia Zdena Stachová
Czechoslovakia Vlasta Vopičková 		6–4, 5–7, 6–1
Win 12. 22 June 1963 London, United Kingdom Grass Australia Judy Tegart United Kingdom Angela Mortimer
Mexico Yola Ramírez 		6–1 6–0
Loss 13. 8 March 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Czechoslovakia Olga Lendlová
Czechoslovakia Jana Sonska 		4–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss 14. 16 August 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Czechoslovakia Olga Lendlová
Czechoslovakia Jana Sonska 		6–3, 3–6, 5–7
Win 15. 7 February 1965 Helsinki, Finland Hard (i) Sweden Gudrun Rosin United Kingdom Robin Blakelock
United Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie 		6–0, 6–4
Win 16. 7 March 1965 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva Czechoslovakia Vlasta Vopičková
West Germany Helga Schultze 		6–4, 7–9, 6–2
Loss 17. 14 August 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Australia Judy Tegart United Kingdom Ann Jones
Netherlands Betty Stöve 		4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Win 18. 19 February 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva Soviet Union Tatiana Chalko
Soviet Union Olga Morozova 		6–2, 6–1
Win 19. 4 March 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva Soviet Union Tatiana Chalko
Soviet Union Olga Morozova 		6–3, 6–1
Loss 20. 4 February 1968 Copenhagen, Denmark Hard (i) Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva United Kingdom Virginia Wade
United Kingdom Joyce Williams 		4–6, 3–6
Win 21. 25 February 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva Soviet Union Rauza Islanova
Soviet Union Olga Morozova 		6–2, 7–5
Win 22. 6 January 1972 Minsk, Soviet Union Hard (i) Soviet Union Marina Chuvirina Soviet Union Larisa Novoshinskaya
Soviet Union Anna Yeremeyeva 		6–3, 3–6, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam finals

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Girls' singles: 1 (1-0)

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Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1958 Wimbledon Grass United States Sally Moore 2–6, 4–6

References

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  1. ^ "Famous Lefties in Tennis". tennis-i-com (in Russian). Alexander Ivanitsky Tennis Encyclopedia. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Анна Дмитриева. Биография. Фотографии" (in Russian). lichnosti.net. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Анна Дмитриева: «НТВ был каналом, давшим возможность получить развитие любой инициативе!»". Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  4. ^ Юрий Голышак (26 November 2010). "Обед для Солженицына". Спорт-Экспресс (in Russian). Archived from the original on 29 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Доска почёта". Теннис+. 1 November 2000. Archived from the original on 27 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Анна Дмитриева: я уже давно в штате «Матч ТВ»". Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Умерла спортивный комментатор Анна Дмитриева". RBK (in Russian). 24 June 2024.
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