Biography
Anna Dmitrieva - Tennis player, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, 18-fold champion in the female single, double and mixed discharge. During the couple of years, he was the Deputy Director of the TV channel "NTV-Plus Sport". Now he heads the staff of sports commentators on Eurosport and periodically comments on tournaments.Childhood and youth
Anna Dmitrieva was born exactly 9 months after the death of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov (the writer died on March 10, 1940) - December 10, 1940 in Moscow. Dmitrie's family belonged to the creative elite of the Soviet Union. Dad of the future Star Tennis, Dmitriev Vladimir Vladimirovich, was the main artist in Mkate, and Mom, Marina Pastukhov-Dmitrieva, dedicated her life to the actor profession.
In childhood, Anna was interested in the world of painting. In an interview, the athlete repeatedly recalled how she painted still lifes with her father: the head of the family - on the easel, and she is in the album. Court Future champion for the first time saw in the near Moscow House of Rest, in which the Mkhatovtsians often spent in the postwar years. Together with the head of the family, Anya rested there. Here the girl more than once became witness of serious tennis battles.
At that time, among the tennis players, the cousins of Anna - Vsevolod Alekseevich Verbitsky enjoyed great authority. They say that on tournaments with the participation of Verbicky, the whole theater was at one time, and his victories were celebrated as premieres. True, Dmitrieva did not happen to see a famous relative for the game. In the period when an athlete taught the grandchildren to keep the racket in his hands, Vsevolod was already seriously sick.
During a couple of months, Anya was diligently practiced on the court and noticeably presented. Mkhatovtsy, believing the fact that the girl inherited the talent of his cousin, invariably the young talent of the future champion. So in front of her seriously the question arose than to do: ballet, about which she dreamed of, like most girls, or yet seriously do tennis.
The final choice was made in the house near the family friend, theatrical artist Boris Erdman, who, after the unexpected death of the father, Anna became a caring elder friend. Once he invited the famous tennis champion of 1920-1930 by Nina Sergeevna Teplyakov for lunch for lunch. Having learned about the talents of the girl and her passionate hobby tennis, Nina invited Dmitriev to himself at the Tennis section of DSO Dynamo, whose colors Anna will subsequently defend over one and a half dozen years.
In January 1953, the Great Pride, Dmitrieva stood at the wall at the Winter Courts of Dynamo Stadium. Then Nina Nikolaevna Leo was taught the basics of Tennis Games, which for many years he was among the top ten tennis players of the country. Dmitrieva was engaged in great pleasure, although at first the sports environment seemed to her someone else's, almost hostile, because at school and at home she lived in a different atmosphere.
On the first competition, the beginner tennis player fell by chance. At the end of her first sports summer, the stadium held the Command Championship of Moscow, and in one of the teams lacked the player. All ran through the stadium and were looking for a replacement. On the eyes of the senior coach Dynamo, Anya came across, calmly walking around the stadium in new tennis slippers.
She lost her first game. But after a year later participated in the same competitions as the current champion and easily bypassed rivals from other metropolitan clubs. It is worth noting that Dmitrieva, despite employment, has received a higher education. In 1966, she graduated from Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Moscow State University (studied at the Department of French Philology).
Tennis
In adult tournaments, Dmitrieva began to perform from 16 years. In 1956, she won the Moscow Championship in the doubles and mixed discharges, in 1957 he became the winner of the All-Union Games of Schoolchildren in the paired discharge. After the entry of the Soviet Union to the International Tennis Federation, in 1958, it, as a fellow hopes, an athlete was included in the first Soviet delegation at the prestigious Wimbledon tournament.
The debut turned out to be successful: Anna Dmitrieva, Anna Dmitriev, unusual for Soviet athletes, first won in the Beknee junior tournament, and then, during the main youth tournament, reached the final, where she lost to American Sally Moore. After the experience of the game abroad, her victory every year became increasingly weighty.
Its distinctive feature was the ability to quickly and correctly predict the actions of the rivals on the site. Tactics of attacks, a variety of blows at the grid, strong, slightly twisted blows from the rear line became the main feature of her game. For his professional career Anna several times won the title of country champion in solitary, double and mixed discharge.
Dmitriev also became the winner of the Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR in Single (1959 and 1963), the pair (1959,1963 and 1967) and a mixed (1959) discharge. Among other things, behind her shoulders at the open championships of Scandinavia (1965), Yugoslavia (1966) and France (1967). After the completion of Dmitrieva's career from 1969 to 1973, he worked as a coach in DSO "Dynamo", and in 1975 he became a sports commentator.
Sports commentator
Dmitriev's authority in tennis is indisputable. Such as it is called professionals. Short and capacious comments athletes deliver Tennis lovers true pleasure. Its reasonable, without unnecessary emotions, the manner of reporting and understanding what is happening on the court may envy many.
In 1995, Anna first led a report from Wimbledon Tennis Tournament. Since then, every year, a large number of spectators watch matches live by ignoring the time difference between London and Russia. Exclusive broadcasts with Wimbledon in 1995-1999 were conducted by Dmitrieving together with the famous Russian tennis player Alexander Meherevyli.
In 1997, the winner of the Open Championship of Scandinavia (1965) was the winner of the Gold Microphone Prize in the nomination "The Best Sports Commentator of Russian Television." Dmitriev worked for many years on Gostello USSR, after which he moved to the TV channel "NTV". There, famous tennis player until August 2010 headed the Directorate of Sports Channels. In 2017, Anna collaborates with the Eurosport channel.
Personal life
There is extremely few information regarding the personal life of an eminent tennis expert in the network. The first husband Anna was the grandson of the writer Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Mikhail. Unfortunately, their union was short. Three months after the wedding, lovers realized that the gray realities of their family life would be, and were divorced.
Dmitry's second husband, the grandson of the Soviet poet of Kornea Ivanovich Chukovsky, became her faithful friend and comrade for many years. Spouses have two adult children and five grandchildren.
Anna Dmitrieva now
In 2017, Dmitrieva continues to comment on tournaments, as well as, at the request of printed publications and Internet resources, to evaluate the preparation of Russian athletes to competitions. So, in July, Anna explained why in the confrontation of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Ekaterina Makarova in the second round of Wimbledon to the victory of Makarova should not be counting on, and in September, it was an opinion on the performance of the tennis player Andrei Rublev on the "US Open".
It is relifically known that the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR does not have any "VKontakte" or in "Instagram" or in Facebook. Materials associated with the creative biography of Soviet tennis players (photos from the competition, interviews, forecasts, statistics) Anyone can find on the Internet.
Achievements
- 1958-1964 - the country champion in the paired discharge
- 1959 - country champion in solitary
- 1960 - Winner of the Summer International Tournament in Single Difference
- 1961 - He headed the top ten of the strongest tennis players of the USSR
- 1961-1965 - Winner of All-Union Winter Competitions in Single Difference
- 1962 - Winner of the Open Championship Czechoslovakia
- 1963 - Winner of the Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR in a single discharge
- 1964 - Country champion in mixed discharge
- 1964 - Awarded the title "Honored Master of Sports of the USSR"
- 1965 - Winner of the Scandinavian Open Championship
- 1965 - Winner of the Wimbledon Tournament "Plate"
- 1967 - Winner of the Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR in the paired discharge
- 1967 - Winner of All-Union Winter Competitions in Mixed Discredition
- 1968 - the winner of the international tournament in Alexandria in a single discharge