Anna Dmitrieva
![]() Dmitrieva in 1968 | |
Full name | Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva |
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Native name | Анна Дмитриева |
Country (sports) | ![]() |
Residence | Moscow, Russia |
Born | Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR | 10 December 1940
Died | 24 June 2024 (aged 83) |
Retired | 1973 |
Plays | Left-handed (one-handed backhand)[1] |
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; 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
[edit]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
[edit]Singles (12–14)
[edit]Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1. | 9 August 1959 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
6–3, 6–1 |
Loss | 2. | 1 March 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
3–6, 6–1, 2–6 |
Win | 3. | 7 August 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
6–2 6–4 |
Win | 4. | 2 July 1961 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | ![]() |
6–3 6–4 |
Loss | 5. | 19 August 1961 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 1–6, 1–6 |
Win | 6. | 11 March 1962 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
6–2, 7–5 |
Loss | 7. | 16 July 1962 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
Loss | 8. | 1 August 1962 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 0–6 |
Loss | 9. | 20 August 1962 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 3–6 |
Win | 10. | 2 February 1963 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
6–4, 6–3 |
Loss | 11. | 10 June 1963 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
Win | 12. | 8 March 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
8–6, 6–2 |
Win | 13. | 18 May 1964 | Algiers, Algeria | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–2 |
Win | 14. | 16 August 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | ![]() |
6–2 6–2 |
Loss | 15. | 7 February 1965 | Helsinki, Finland | Hard (i) | ![]() |
2–6, 6–1, 3–6 |
Loss | 16. | 14 August 1966 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 3–6 |
Win | 17. | 18 September 1966 | Belgrade, Yugoslavia | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–4 |
Loss | 18. | 22 January 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
7–9, 6–8 |
Loss | 19. | 19 February 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
2–6, 8–10 |
Win | 20. | 4 March 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
9–7, 6–4 |
Loss | 21. | 19 March 1967 | Alexandria, Egypt | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 1–6, 6–8 |
Loss | 22. | 27 September 1967 | Tbilisi, Soviet Union | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 6–4, 1–6 |
Loss | 23. | 7 January 1968 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
9–7, 1–6, 8–10 |
Win | 24. | 17 March 1968 | Alexandria, Egypt | Clay | ![]() |
6–0, 6–3 |
Win | 25. | 6 January 1972 | Minsk, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
6–4, 6–2 |
Loss | 26. | 27 February 1972 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
4–6, 3–6 |
Doubles (15–7)
[edit]Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 1. | January 1960 | Calcutta, India | Hard | ![]() |
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5–7, 2–6 |
Win | 2. | January 1960 | New Delhi, India | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 7–5, 6–0 |
Win | 3. | January 1960 | Indore, India | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–1 |
Win | 4. | 1 March 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–2 |
Loss | 5. | 8 March 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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6–8, 4–6 |
Win | 6. | 7 August 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 7. | 5 March 1961 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–2 |
Loss | 8. | 19 August 1961 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–8, 4–6 |
Win | 9. | 22 July 1962 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | ![]() |
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8–6, 6–2 |
Win | 10. | 1 August 1962 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–2 |
Win | 11. | 10 June 1963 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 5–7, 6–1 |
Win | 12. | 22 June 1963 | London, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
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6–1 6–0 |
Loss | 13. | 8 March 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–2, 5–7 |
Loss | 14. | 16 August 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 3–6, 5–7 |
Win | 15. | 7 February 1965 | Helsinki, Finland | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–4 |
Win | 16. | 7 March 1965 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–4, 7–9, 6–2 |
Loss | 17. | 14 August 1966 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–2, 3–6 |
Win | 18. | 19 February 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 19. | 4 March 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–1 |
Loss | 20. | 4 February 1968 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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4–6, 3–6 |
Win | 21. | 25 February 1968 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 7–5 |
Win | 22. | 6 January 1972 | Minsk, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–3, 3–6, 6–1 |
Junior Grand Slam finals
[edit]Girls' singles: 1 (1-0)
[edit]Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1958 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() |
2–6, 4–6 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Famous Lefties in Tennis". tennis-i-com (in Russian). Alexander Ivanitsky Tennis Encyclopedia. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "Анна Дмитриева. Биография. Фотографии" (in Russian). lichnosti.net. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Юрий Голышак (26 November 2010). "Обед для Солженицына". Спорт-Экспресс (in Russian). Archived from the original on 29 June 2021.
- ^ "Доска почёта". Теннис+. 1 November 2000. Archived from the original on 27 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ "Анна Дмитриева: я уже давно в штате «Матч ТВ»". Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
- ^ a b "Умерла спортивный комментатор Анна Дмитриева". RBK (in Russian). 24 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Anna Dmitrieva at the Peoples.ru portal (in Russian)
- Anna Dmitrieva at the Russian Tennis Federation (in Russian)
- Anna Dmitrieva at the International Tennis Federation
- Anna Dmitrieva at the Billie Jean King Cup
- Anna Dmitrieva at Wimbledon