Anna Dmitrieva

Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (Russian: Анна Владимировна Дми́триева; 10 December 1940 — 24 June 2024) was a tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union, as well as a sports commentator.^[2][3]

Anna Dmitrieva

Dmitrieva in 1968
Full name	Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva
Native name	Анна Дмитриева
Country (sports)	Soviet Union
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	(1940-12-10)10 December 1940 Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	24 June 2024 (aged 83)
Retired	1973
Plays	Left-handed (one-handed backhand)[1]
Singles
Career titles	12 ITF
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	4R (1967)
Wimbledon	4R (1960)
US Open	4R (1962)
Wimbledon Junior	F (1958)
Doubles
Career titles	13 ITF
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	QF (1968)
Wimbledon	SF (1963)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (1967)

Biography

Anna Dmitrieva started playing tennis at the age of 12.^[2] In less than a year she had won the Moscow junior championships as a member of the Dynamo team, and the next year she also became 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.^[2][4]

In 1958, when the USSR joined the International Tennis Federation, 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 the 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 the open championships of Czechoslovakia and Hungary (1962), Uganda (1963), and Yugoslavia (1966). She also won the women's tournament at the Queen's Club in 1963 and the 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 greatest success was reaching the 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 Soviet TV and radio. She started as a commentator on TV in 1976, with Alex Metreveli.^[3] After 1993, she worked with NTV,^[3][5] Match TV,^[6] which she left because the channel stopped covering tennis tournaments, and Eurosport.^[7]

Dmitrieva died on 24 June 2024, at the age of 83.^[7] She had always been addicted to cigarettes, even while she was actively engaged in sports.^{[citation needed]}

ILTF Career finals

Singles (12–14)

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

Doubles (15–7)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	January 1960	Calcutta, India	Hard	Irina Ermolova	Margaret Hellyer Mimi Arnold	5–7, 2–6
Win	2.	January 1960	New Delhi, India	Hard	Irina Ermolova	Margaret Hellyer Mimi Arnold	4–6, 7–5, 6–0
Win	3.	January 1960	Indore, India	Hard	Irina Ermolova	Dechu Appaiah Leela Panjabi	7–5, 6–1
Win	4.	1 March 1960	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Irina Ermolova	Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya	6–2, 6–2
Loss	5.	8 March 1960	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Irina Ermolova	Věra Suková Velve Tamm	6–8, 4–6
Win	6.	7 August 1960	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Irina Ermolova	Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya	6–4, 6–4
Win	7.	5 March 1961	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Irina Ermolova	Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya	6–0, 6–2
Loss	8.	19 August 1961	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	Eva Johannes Věra Suková	6–1, 6–8, 4–6
Win	9.	22 July 1962	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Jitka Volavková	Klara Bardoczy Zsuzsa Körmöczy	8–6, 6–2
Win	10.	1 August 1962	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Jana Volková	Vlasta Vopičková Jiřina Michlová	7–5, 6–2
Win	11.	10 June 1963	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Irina Ermolova	Zdena Stachová Vlasta Vopičková	6–4, 5–7, 6–1
Win	12.	22 June 1963	London, United Kingdom	Grass	Judy Tegart	Angela Mortimer Yola Ramírez	6–1 6–0
Loss	13.	8 March 1964	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	Olga Lendlová Jana Sonska	4–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss	14.	16 August 1964	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova	Olga Lendlová Jana Sonska	6–3, 3–6, 5–7
Win	15.	7 February 1965	Helsinki, Finland	Hard (i)	Gudrun Rosin	Robin Blakelock Elizabeth Starkie	6–0, 6–4
Win	16.	7 March 1965	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Galina Baksheeva	Vlasta Vopičková Helga Schultze	6–4, 7–9, 6–2
Loss	17.	14 August 1966	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Judy Tegart	Ann Jones Betty Stöve	4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Win	18.	19 February 1967	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Galina Baksheeva	Tatiana Chalko Olga Morozova	6–2, 6–1
Win	19.	4 March 1967	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Galina Baksheeva	Tatiana Chalko Olga Morozova	6–3, 6–1
Loss	20.	4 February 1968	Copenhagen, Denmark	Hard (i)	Galina Baksheeva	Virginia Wade Joyce Williams	4–6, 3–6
Win	21.	25 February 1968	Moscow, Soviet Union	Hard	Galina Baksheeva	Rauza Islanova Olga Morozova	6–2, 7–5
Win	22.	6 January 1972	Minsk, Soviet Union	Hard (i)	Marina Chuvirina	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

References

1. "Famous Lefties in Tennis". tennis-i-com (in Russian). Alexander Ivanitsky Tennis Encyclopedia. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
2. "Анна Дмитриева. Биография. Фотографии" (in Russian). lichnosti.net. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
3. "Анна Дмитриева: «НТВ был каналом, давшим возможность получить развитие любой инициативе!»". Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
4. Юрий Голышак (26 November 2010). "Обед для Солженицына". Спорт-Экспресс (in Russian). Archived from the original on 29 June 2021.
5. "Доска почёта". Теннис+. 1 November 2000. Archived from the original on 27 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
6. "Анна Дмитриева: я уже давно в штате «Матч ТВ»". Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
7. "Умерла спортивный комментатор Анна Дмитриева". RBK (in Russian). 24 June 2024.

External links

• Anna Dmitrieva at the Peoples.ru portal (in Russian)
• Anna Dmitrieva at the Russian Tennis Federation (in Russian)
• Anna Dmitrieva at the International Tennis Federation
• Anna Dmitrieva at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Anna Dmitrieva at Wimbledon