Anna Dmitrieva

Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (Russian: Анна Владимировна Дми́триева, born 10 December 1940) is a retired female tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union.

Anna Dmitrieva
Анна Дми́триева
Full nameAnna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva
Country (sports) Soviet Union
ResidenceMoscow, Russia
Born (1940-12-10) 10 December 1940
Moscow, USSR
Retired1973
Singles
Career titles12 ITF
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open4R (1967)
Wimbledon4R (1960)
US Open4R (1962)
Wimbledon JuniorF (1958)
Doubles
Career titles13 ITF
Grand Slam Doubles results
French OpenQF (1968)
WimbledonSF (1963)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
WimbledonQF (1967)

Career

Anna Dmitrieva was born in an artistic family. Her father was the chief artist in MKhAT and her mother was an actress. Her father died when she was seven years old, and her mother married for the second time a popular composer Kirill Molchanov.

Anna started playing tennis at the age of 12. In less than a year she won Moscow junior championships as a member of the Dynamo team, and the next year she became also 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.

In 1958, when the USSR joined the International Tennis Federation, Anna 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 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 open championships of Czechoslovakia and Hungary (1962), Uganda (1963), Yugoslavia (1966). In 1965 she won Scandinavian Indoors championship in women's doubles and reached finals in singles. She also won women's tournament at the Queen's Club in 1963 and 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 highest success was reaching 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 the Soviet TV and radio. Today, she is the director of sports channels department at NTV Plus television network. Dmitrieva won a number of professional awards during her career as a sports journalist; in particular, she was named the best sports journalist of the Russian TV in 1997, and in 2008 she won another prize for life achievement in this field.

ITF Finals

Singles (12–14)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 9 August 1959 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 6-3, 6-1
Runner-up 2. 1 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 3-6, 6-1, 2-6
Winner 3. 7 August 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Jirina Elgrová 6-2 6-4
Winner 4. 2 July 1961 Budapest, Hungary Clay Zsuzsa Körmöczy 6-3 6-4
Runner-up 5. 19 August 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Věra Suková 7-5, 1-6, 1-6
Winner 6. 11 March 1962 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Lea Pericoli 6-2, 7-5
Runner-up 7. 16 July 1962 Budapest, Hungary Clay Zsuzsa Körmöczy 1-6, 6-4, 4-6
Runner-up 8. 1 August 1962 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Elizabeth Starkie 3-6, 0-6
Runner-up 9. 20 August 1962 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Jan Lehane 3-6, 3-6
Winner 10. 02 February 1963 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Irina Ryazanova Ermolova 6-4, 6-3
Runner-up 11. 10 June 1963 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Věra Suková 1-6, 6-4, 4-6
Winner 12. 8 March 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 8-6, 6-2
Winner 13. 18 May 1964 Algiers, Algeria Clay Françoise Dürr 6-3, 6-2
Winner 14. 16 August 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 6-2 6-2
Runner-up 15. 7 February 1965 Helsinki, Finland Hard (i) Elizabeth Starkie 2-6, 6-1, 3-6
Runner-up 16. 14 August 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Ann Jones 1-6, 3-6
Winner 17. 18 September 1966 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Clay Alena Palmeová 6-2, 6-4
Runner-up 18. 22 January 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Olga Morozova 7-9, 6-8
Runner-up 19. 19 February 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva 2-6, 8-10
Winner 20. 4 March 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva 9-7, 6-4
Runner-up 21. 19 March 1967 Alexandria, Egypt Clay Helga Schultze 6-4, 1-6, 6-8
Runner-up 22. 27 September 1967 Tbilisi, Soviet Union Clay Olga Morozova 5-7, 6-4, 1-6
Runner-up 23. 7 January 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Olga Morozova 9-7, 1-6, 8-10
Winner 24. 17 March 1968 Alexandria, Egypt Clay Robin Blakelock 6-0, 6-3
Winner 25. 6 January 1972 Minsk, Soviet Union Hard (i) Marina Chuvyrina 6-4, 6-2
Runner-up 26. 27 February 1972 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Eugenia Birioukova 4-6, 3-6

Doubles (13–6)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 1 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Irina Ryazanova Ermolova Vera Filippova
Larissa Preobrazhenskaya
6-2, 6-2
Runner-up 2. 8 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Irina Ryazanova Ermolova Věra Suková
Velve Tamm
6–8, 4–6
Winner 3. 7 August 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Irina Ryazanova Ermolova Vera Filippova
Larissa Preobrazhenskaya
6-4, 6-4
Winner 4. 5 March 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Irina Ryazanova Ermolova Vera Filippova
Larissa Preobrazhenskaya
6-0, 6-2
Runner-up 5. 19 August 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Eva Johannes
Věra Suková
6-1, 6-8, 4-6
Winner 6. 22 July 1962 Budapest, Hungary Clay Jitka Volavková Klara Bardoczy
Zsuzsa Körmöczy
8-6, 6-2
Winner 7. 1 August 1962 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Jana Volková Vlasta Vopičková
Jiřina Michlová
7-5, 6-2
Winner 8. 10 June 1963 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Irina Ryazanova Ermolova Zdena Stachová
Vlasta Vopičková
6-4, 5-7, 6-1
Winner 9. 22 June 1963 London, United Kingdom Grass Judy Tegart-Dalton Angela Mortimer
Yola Ramírez
6-1 6-0
Runner-up 10. 8 March 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Olga Lendlová
Jana Sonska
4-6, 6-2, 5-7
Runner-up 11. 16 August 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Olga Lendlová
Jana Sonska
6-3, 3-6, 5-7
Winner 12. 7 February 1965 Helsinki, Finland Hard (i) Gudrun Rosin Robin Blakelock
Elizabeth Starkie
6-0, 6-4
Winner 13. 7 March 1965 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Vlasta Vopičková
Helga Schultze
6-4, 7-9, 6-2
Runner-up 14. 14 August 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Judy Tegart-Dalton Ann Jones
Betty Stöve
4-6, 6-2, 3-6
Winner 15. 19 February 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Tatiana Chalko
Olga Morozova
6-2, 6-1
Winner 16. 4 March 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Tatiana Chalko
Olga Morozova
6-3, 6-1
Runner-up 17. 4 February 1968 Copenhagen, Denmark Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Virginia Wade
Joyce Williams
4-6, 3-6
Winner 18. 25 February 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Galina Baksheeva Rauza Islanova
Olga Morozova
6–2, 7–5
Winner 19. 6 January 1972 Minsk, Soviet Union Hard (i) Marina Chuvyrina Larisa Novoshinskaya
Anna Yeremeyeva
6-3, 3-6, 6-1

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (1-0)

Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1958 Wimbledon Grass Sally Moore 2–6, 4–6
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