Sofya Andreyevna Tartakova (; born 17 June 1989,

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) is a Russian radio and TV presenter, journalist and sports commentator of ''

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''.

Biography

In autumn of 2009 she worked as a correspondent in the newspaper ''

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'', wrote articles on the topic of tennis. In 2011 she graduated from the Humanities Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting. The commentator of tennis matches on channels '' Eurosport Russia'' and ''

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Tennis'', the author and presenter of program ''Central Court'' on the radio station ''Sport FM''. For the first time as a TV presenter, Sofya Tartakova appeared in February 2014 in the program ''Olympic Channel from Sochi'' on the TV channel ''Sport Plus'' as co-host with Georgy Cherdantsev. Commented on the

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in 2014 on the Internet portal Sports.ru. Formerly a press attache with the

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. In October 2015, he moved to the new sports TV channel ''Match TV''. In May 2017, she starred for the men's ''

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'' along with colleagues from ''Match TV'' Maria Bass and Yulia Sharapova. In June 2018 Tartakova graced the issue of the Russian edition of ''

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''. She is married to Russian tennis player Stepan Khotulev. Ни стыда, ни совести. Самая горячая ведущая Матч ТВ проводит медовый месяц в Хорватии
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Софья Тартакова. Интервью о теннисе, работе и жизни.
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