Question: Can Anna Kournikova be as good as Steffi…?
“I don’t think anybody can win 21 Grand Slam tournaments anymore. But I hope Anna Kournikova can win — she is good on every surface. She can play very well on grass, very well. I think it is the best surface, probably. Hard courts, she is playing […]

Question: …do you believe she [Anna Kournikova] can get to the Top 10 again?
“Well, she definitely has the game. Anna Kournikova has the strokes. You know, sometimes she rushes a little bit too much. I mean, she was able to beat Top-10 players in the past. She beat me once. She beat Lindsay. She beat […]

By 1993, Anna Kournikova was winning titles in the “18s” tournaments, which is for girls 18 or younger, and the St. Petersburg Times referred to her as “the latest teen phenom”. Then Anna Kournikova was 11 years old.
In his book Topspin, Elliot Berry describes watching Anna playing in the US Open Juniors in 1994:
There were […]

As Anna Kournikova developed her skills, Monica Seles, who preceded her at the Bolletieri Academy, was the player she most respected.
At the 2002 Pan-Pacific Open semifinals Anna Kournikova was defeated by Monica Seles. In the post-match interview Anna Kournikova said
“Well, Monica has always been the player that I have admired since […]

Famous players who have attended the Bolletieri Academy include Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Mary Pierce, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, and Andre Agassi.
Anna Kournikova was still 10 when she was enrolled in the IMG-owned Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida, in Feburary, 1992.
Anna Kournikova had only been at the academy a […]

Sergei said: “We were young and we liked the clean, physical life, so Anna was in a good environment for sport from the beginning.”The family name is spelled in Russian without an “o”, so a direct translation would be “Kurnikova”, and it is sometimes written that way. But it is pronouced “Kournikova”, so the family […]

Anna was born to Sergei Kournikov and Alla in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union on Sunday, June 7, 1981.
Her father, Sergei Kournikov was 20 at the time. Sergei, a former Greco-Roman wrestling champion, had earned a Ph.D and was a professor at the University of Physical Culture and Sport in Moscow.
As of 2001, he […]

• Anna Kournikoa first appeared on July 5, 2004, Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100 list along with S. Williams at No. 63, V. Williams at No. 77, Henin-Hardenne at No. 81 and Clijsters at No. 84 at No. 82.
• In May 2004, Anna Kournikoa featured on 60-minute E! Network True Hollywood Story: Anna Kournikova.
• Anna Kournikoa […]