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][4] In 1958, when the USSR joined the International Tennis Federation, Dmitrieva became a member of the first Soviet delegation at the Wimbledon Championships.

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.

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.

[3] After 1993, she worked with NTV,[3][5] Match TV,[6] which she left because the channel stopped covering tennis tournaments, and Eurosport.