Have look at the career highlights of the most popular
tennis player Anna Kurnikova.
In 2002, she reached in
the semifinals in Toyko her best result in more than a year. She struggled to
get out of the first round at tournaments. Reached her first final in nearly two
years in Shanghai before falling to top seed Anna Smashnova. In Moscow, tore a
ligament during doubles play to finish her season.
In the february 2001 Anna was suffered form a stress
facture in her foot. Because of that she was withdrew from the French Open. She
knocked out of the quarterfinals of the Australian Open by defending champion
Lindsay Davenport. Davenport lost in the next round to eventual champion
Jennifer Capriati. Martina Hingis broken up their parnarship with Hingis ranked
No. 3 and Kournikova No. 4 in doubles.
In 2000 the glamorous Russian has played 80 WTA Tour
main draw singles matches without a title. She reached the final of the Kremlin
Cup and eight other semifinals this season. She advanced to the quarterfinals in
Philadelphia but lost to doubles partner Martina Hingis. Anna Kournikova
advanced out of the first round of the Chase Championships for the first time in
three years making it to the semifinals where she lost to Hingis. She won the
doubles title with Hingis for the second consecutive year at Madison Square
Garden. Vowed greater stability this season but went through her fourth
professional coach and endured controversy relating to.
In 1999, she captured her first Grand Slam title,
teaming with Martina Hingis to beat the team of No. 1 singles player Lindsay
Davenport and No. 1-ranked doubles player Natasha Zvereva 7-5, 6-3 for the
doubles title. She made it to the semifinals of the IGA Superthrift Tennis
Classic before falling to Amanda Coetzer 6-4, 6-2.
In 1998 she won four consecutive matches against
top-10 players, a feat unprecedented on the women's tour, before losing to Venus
Williams in the finals of the Lipton Championships. Also she was the first
Russian woman to be seeded at the US Open since 1976 and became the
ninth-youngest player in the Open Era (starting 1968) to defeat a reigning world
No. 1 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. Also defeated No. 5 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the third round
and her ranking moved up to a then-career high No. 13. Anna defeated Steffi Graf
in the quarterfinals of Eastbourne, becoming one of eight players who have
defeated both Hingis and Graf.
In 1997 she was playing in just her fourth Grand Slam
tournament, she reached the semifinals at Wimbledon. She lost to eventual
champion Martina Hingis in straight sets after defeating Anke Huber, then-ranked
No. 10, in the third round and Iva Majoli, then-ranked No. 5, in the
quarterfinals.
In 1996 she reached to the fourth round of the U.S.
Open by defeating the tourney's 14th seed, Barbara Paulus. Her world ranking
improved 224 spots as she climbed to No.57 by the end of the year.
In 1995 she made her pro debut in October at age 14.