The possibility of a return to proffessional tennis is left open for Anna Kournikova.
Anna Kournikova, who retired from proffessional tennis in 2003 due to back problem, said “the possibility is not completely out of the question”, though she doesn’t have any immediate plan to return to the WTA Tour.
Kournikova said this ahed of Saturday night’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

Anna Kournikova began playing tennis at age five with friends in a weekly children’s sports program.
Anna Kournikova’s first coach in Russia was Larisa Preobrazhenskaya.
Anna Kournikova went to Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida for tennis training in February 1992 and stayed until moving to Miami in 1997.
Anna Kournikova mother’s name is Alla and father’s […]

2003
Anna Kournikova collected her first Grand Slam match victory in two years at Australian
Open, defeating Nagyova 1r and lost to Henin-Hardenne in 2nd round. She withdrew from Tokyo
[Pan Pacific] due to sprained back suffered at Australian Open and did
not return to Tour until Miami.
Anna Kournikova retired in 1r of Charleston due to left
adductor strain.
She […]