Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (; 10 December 1940 — 24 June 2024) was a

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player who competed for the

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, as well as a sports commentator.

Biography

Anna Dmitrieva started playing tennis at the age of 12. In less than a year she had won the Moscow junior championships as a member of the

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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. In 1958, when the USSR joined the

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, Dmitrieva became a member of the first Soviet delegation at the

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. 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

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and Hungary (1962), Uganda (1963), and

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(1966). She also won the women's tournament at the

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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

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in 1963. At the Grand Slam tournaments, her greatest success was reaching the Wimbledon doubles semis in 1963 with

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; they lost to the eventual champions

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and

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. 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

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played the longest game in the tournament's history against Bueno and

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. 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

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. After 1993, she worked with

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, which she left because the channel stopped covering tennis tournaments, and

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. Dmitrieva died on 24 June 2024, at the age of 83.

ILTF Career finals

Singles (12–14)

Doubles (15–7)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (1-0)

References

External links

Anna Dmitrieva
at the Peoples.ru portal
Anna Dmitrieva
at the

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