Anna Dmitrieva

Anna Dmitrieva
Анна Дми́триева
Full name	Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva
Country (sports)	Soviet Union
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	10 December 1940 (age 83); Moscow, USSR
Retired	1973
Singles
Career titles	12 ITF
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	4R (1967)
Wimbledon	4R (1960)
US Open	4R (1962)
Wimbledon Junior	F (1958)
Doubles
Career titles	13 ITF
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	QF (1968)
Wimbledon	SF (1963)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (1967)

Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (Russian: Анна Владимировна Дми́триева, born 10 December 1940) is a retired female tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union.

Career

Anna Dmitrieva was born in an artistic family. Her father was the chief artist in MKhAT and her mother was an actress. Her father died when she was seven years old, and her mother married for the second time a popular composer Kirill Molchanov.

Anna started playing tennis at the age of 12. In less than a year she won Moscow junior championships as a member of the Dynamo team, and the next year she became also 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 International Tennis Federation, Anna 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 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 open championships of Czechoslovakia and Hungary (1962), Uganda (1963), Yugoslavia (1966). In 1965 she won Scandinavian Indoors championship in women's doubles and reached finals in singles. She also won women's tournament at the Queen's Club in 1963 and 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 highest success was reaching 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 the Soviet TV and radio. Today, she is the director of sports channels department at NTV Plus television network. Dmitrieva won a number of professional awards during her career as a sports journalist; in particular, she was named the best sports journalist of the Russian TV in 1997, and in 2008 she won another prize for life achievement in this field.

ITF Finals

Singles (12–14)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	9 August 1959	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	6-3, 6-1
Runner-up	2.	1 March 1960	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	3-6, 6-1, 2-6
Winner	3.	7 August 1960	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Jirina Elgrová	6-2 6-4
Winner	4.	2 July 1961	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Zsuzsa Körmöczy	6-3 6-4
Runner-up	5.	19 August 1961	Moscow, Soviet Union	Clay	Věra Suková	7-5, 1-6, 1-6
Winner	6.	11 March 1962	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Lea Pericoli	6-2, 7-5
Runner-up	7.	16 July 1962	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Zsuzsa Körmöczy	1-6, 6-4, 4-6
Runner-up	8.	1 August 1962	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Elizabeth Starkie	3-6, 0-6
Runner-up	9.	20 August 1962	Moscow, Soviet Union	Clay	Jan Lehane	3-6, 3-6
Winner	10.	02 February 1963	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Irina Ryazanova Ermolova	6-4, 6-3
Runner-up	11.	10 June 1963	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Věra Suková	1-6, 6-4, 4-6
Winner	12.	8 March 1964	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	8-6, 6-2
Winner	13.	18 May 1964	Algiers, Algeria	Clay	Françoise Dürr	6-3, 6-2
Winner	14.	16 August 1964	Moscow, Soviet Union	Clay	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	6-2 6-2
Runner-up	15.	7 February 1965	Helsinki, Finland	Hard (i)	Elizabeth Starkie	2-6, 6-1, 3-6
Runner-up	16.	14 August 1966	Moscow, Soviet Union	Clay	Ann Jones	1-6, 3-6
Winner	17.	18 September 1966	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Clay	Alena Palmeová	6-2, 6-4
Runner-up	18.	22 January 1967	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Olga Morozova	7-9, 6-8
Runner-up	19.	19 February 1967	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Galina Baksheeva	2-6, 8-10
Winner	20.	4 March 1967	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Galina Baksheeva	9-7, 6-4
Runner-up	21.	19 March 1967	Alexandria, Egypt	Clay	Helga Schultze	6-4, 1-6, 6-8
Runner-up	22.	27 September 1967	Tbilisi, Soviet Union	Clay	Olga Morozova	5-7, 6-4, 1-6
Runner-up	23.	7 January 1968	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Olga Morozova	9-7, 1-6, 8-10
Winner	24.	17 March 1968	Alexandria, Egypt	Clay	Robin Blakelock	6-0, 6-3
Winner	25.	6 January 1972	Minsk, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Marina Chuvyrina	6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	26.	27 February 1972	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Eugenia Birioukova	4-6, 3-6

Doubles (13–6)

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