Biography
The professional career of the Russian tennis player of the faith of the Zvonarevaya sports analysts are considered to be held and successful, because it has become a multiple winner of prestigious competitions, more than once won the tournaments of a big helmet and won the honorary award at the Olympic Games.Childhood and youth
Vera Igorevna Zvonareva was born on September 7, 1984 in the capital of the USSR and grew in the family of Soviet athletes who spent in hockey competitions on grass and hockey with a ball. Watching parents, the girl adopted their active lifestyle, but went on a different road, took up tennis aged 6 years.
Thanks to the mentoring Catherine Ivanovna Kryuchkov, who had the title of Master of Sports of the USSR, faith participated in international youth tournaments and beneficially showed itself.
And although athlete did not have outstanding physical data from nature, the coach saw strong qualities in it, the main of which was the speed and coordination of movements.
Given this, Zvonareva received an individual training program, aimed at improving technology and strike. As a result, in the early 2000s at the youth level, the next tennis star twice won the Orange Bowl tournament and thanks to this came to the professional level in the status of the third rocket of the world among juniors.
Tennis
The beginning of an adult biography of the starrevoy is considered to participate in international ITF series tournaments conducted in the late 1990s in Moscow and Tbilisi, as well as debut in the WTA competitions, which took place at the age of 16.In 2002, the athlete first appeared at the Greater Helmet tournament and went out in the 4th round of the Open France. This result allowed the recent junior to get into the top 100 professional ranking and by the end of the season to be on the 45th line.
2003 Vera began with a quarterfinal competition in Auckland, Indian Wells, Hobart and Charlestone and in the late spring won the first WTA-title on the soil coverage in more. Then, having defeated with compatriot Anastasia Myskina, for the first time in his career surpassed the athlete from the top 10 and reached the 1/4 finals on the tournament in Berlin.
In the mid-2000s, a number of loud victories followed strong rivals and the second reward received for the victory in WTA competitions followed in the core. And then in a double mixer with the support of Israeli Andy Rama and Americans Bob Brian, the girl won Wimbledon and the America's open championship, starting an account of titles in a big helmet.
One of the most successful tennis player in the career was the 2008 season. Faith won tournaments in Prague and Guangzhou, and because of the injury of Maria Sharapova and the refusal from the participation of Anna Chakvetadze, a chance appeared a chance to go to the XXIX Olympic Games. At the global tournament, the athlete performed adequately, replenishing the piggy bank awards of the most expensive at that time in her arsenal - the Bronze Medal of the Olympic Games.
For an incomprehensible reason, after success in the professional career of faith, a decline came. But after a number of injuries, gatherings and defeats, she returned to the tennis elite, in 2010 he won the Pattaya Championship in 2010, and the next prestigious tournament ranked 2 in the WTA rating.
Subsequently, because of the health problems, Zvonarev fell down on the list of the best planet professionals until the 98th place. She starred from tournaments due to hip injury, and then shoulder. The latter was so serious that the operation demanded.
But when the physical condition stabilized, the titled Russian woman came out in the 1/4 finals of the tournaments in Shenzhen and Pattaya. And in the spring of 2015, faith again took a break, after which he decided to try himself in a new role and began the duties of a television commentator on US Open - 2016.
Next year, the athlete received a master's degree in political science in Boston.
In 2019, Zvonareva took part in a number of international tournaments, but only 1 time in St. Petersburg, she was qualified and reached the playoff series.
On US Open - 2020 faith with Lauro Zigamem for the first time since 2012 reached the semifinals of the Greater Helmet tournament in the double-wing discharge. Having attached to the maximum effort, the tennis players went around all the rivals and met in the final from Xu Yifan and Nicole Melikhar, who defeated with the score of 6: 4, 6: 4. This victory was for the Russians of the 5th in the series of the Grand Slam.
Personal life
For a long time, the press did not have information about the personal life of the tennis players, but it was believed that her beloved was a professional coach named Sergey Demenein. However, he was refuted in an interview by saying that he was consistent with an athlete in good, but purely professional relationships.
When the page of the former official of Alexander Kucher, the users appeared on the stagnirus page in the "Instagram" page instead of his favorite public photo in a swimsuit, users were puzzled. Soon it turned out that in 2016 a man became a legitimate husband of Faith and the father of her daughter Evelyna.
In an interview, the tennis player said that together with Alexander visited the birth of a child's birth, as before that did not have the experience of communicating with children and wanted to thoroughly prepare for the event.
Vera Zvonareva now
Now the athlete does not stop training, remaining in good shape.In the spring of 2021, Vera reached the second circle of the WTA-250 tournament in Istanbul, winning the Herce 6: 3, 6: 3. However, I didn't get into the quarterfinals of Zvonarev, Fionro Ferro's Frenchwoman bypassed her with an advantage of 3: 6, 3 : 6.
At the WTA-500 tournament in Eastbourne in the first round, the athlete fought with a compatriot Darya Raskin. The meeting lasted for 1 hour 25 minutes and ended with a score of 1: 0 in favor of the row, because Zvonareva starred from the match because of an unsuccessful fall.
Faith came to the application for the Olympic Games - 2020 in Tokyo, where her participation was scheduled in a female couple with Elena Spring.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 - Winner of the Open Championship of Croatia (Bol, Croatia)
- 2004 - Winner of the Open Championship Memphis (Memphis, USA)
- 2005 - Winner of the Open Memphis Championship (Memphis, USA)
- 2006 - Winner of the Birmingham Classic tournament (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
- 2008 - Winner of the J & T Tournament Banka Prague Open (Prague, Czech Republic)
- 2008 - Winner of the open championship Guangzhou (Guangzhou, China)
- 2009 - Winner of the Open Championship Pattaya (Pattaya, Thailand)
- 2009 - Winner of the Indian Wells Masters Tournament (Indian Wells, USA)
- 2010 - Winner of the Open Championship Pattaya (Pattaya, Thailand)
- 2011 - Winner of the Open Catar Championship (Doha, Qatar)
- 2011 - Baku Cup Winner (Baku, Azerbaijan)