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Anna Kournikova

**Anna Kournikova**

Country	Russia
Residence	Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Date of birth	June 7, 1981 (1981-06-07) (age 26)
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	56 kg (120 lb/8.8 st)
Turned Pro	October 1995
Retired	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$3,584,662
Singles
Career record:	209-129
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	8 (November 20, 2000)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2001)
French Open	4r (1998-99)
Wimbledon	SF (1997)
US Open	4r (1996, 1998)
Doubles
Career record:	200-71
Career titles:	13
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (November 22, 1999)

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Ку́рникова (listen (help·info)), Anna Sergeevna Kurnikova; born June 7, 1981) is a semi-retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Her celebrity made her one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google.

She has had some success at the singles game, reaching #8 in the world in 2000, but her specialty has been doubles, where she has at times been the world's No.1 doubles player. With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002. Kournikova's major-league tennis career has been curtailed for the past several years, and possibly ended, by serious back and spinal problems.

Kournikova was born in Moscow in the former Soviet Union to Alla and Sergei Kournikov; she and her mother later emigrated to the United States. Currently, she resides in Miami Beach, Florida, and plays in occasional exhibitions and in doubles for the St. Louis Aces of World Team Tennis.