Anna Kournikova's Kevo

Anna Kournikova, the young Russian tennis sensation, turned professional in 1995. At such a young age, she has become one of those athletes you hate to love. Kournikova has been seen as having a holier-than-thou attitude, and she's been described as flamboyant, photogenic, athletic, stuck-up, arrogant and exotic. With all this said, she plays very good tennis, and has the potential to become one of the tennis elite.

At age 14, Kournikova became the youngest player to compete and win in the Russian Fed Cup competition in the first tie of 1996, helping Russia defeat Sweden 3-0. In 1995, she was ranked 281. At the end of 1998, she was ranked 13th and recognized as the first Russian woman to be seeded at the US Open since 1976.

Kournikova ended a successful 1998 by qualifying for the season-ending Chase Championships in both singles and doubles, as one of the year's top 16 singles players and top eight doubles teams with Larisa Neiland. Showing her potential to be number one, she defeated six players ranked among the world's top ten in 1998 and reached the top ten herself.

She became the ninth-youngest player in the Open Era (starting 1968) to defeat a reigning world number one player before her 17th birthday, upsetting Martina Hingis in the quarterfinals at the 1998 German Open; the defeat marked Hingis' first professional loss to a younger player.

Kournikova won her first Grand Slam title at the 1999 Australian Open, winning the doubles title with first-time partner Hingis by upsetting the first and second seeds. She also reached the fourth round in singles.

Kournikova is rumored to be the girlfriend of Sergei Fedorov, hockey player for the Detroit Red Wings, although rumors have come out that she is also linked to another hockey superstar, Florida Panther Pavel Bure. Kournikova denied being in a relationship with Federov by saying she has a "boyfriend" in every country she's visited.

While her mother tours with her, it is apparent that Kournikova is not impeded by her mother's presence. She has stated that if she wasn't a professional tennis player, she would like to be an actress.
Climb to Fame
an up and coming, very outspoken and pretty tennis player.
Work History
1999) Winner, Australian Open Doubles with Martina Hingis

(1999) Semifinalist, Oklahoma City, singles

(1999) Quarter finalist, Tokyo, Pan Pacific, singles

(1999) Fourth Round, Australian Open, singles

(1999) Semifinalist, Oklahoma City Doubles, with de Swardt
Awards
Anna Kournikova has also won numerous Awards