Anna Dmitrieva

Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (; 10 December 1940 — 24 June 2024) was a tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union, as well as a sports commentator.

Biography Anna Dmitrieva started playing tennis at the age of 12. 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.

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. Match TV, which she left because the channel stopped covering tennis tournaments, and Eurosport.

Dmitrieva died on 24 June 2024, at the age of 83.

ILTF Career finals Singles (12–14) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1. 9 August 1959 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 6–3, 6–1Loss 2. 1 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 3–6, 6–1, 2–6Win 3. 7 August 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Jirina Elgrová 6–2 6–4Win 4. 2 July 1961 Budapest, Hungary Clay Zsuzsa Körmöczy 6–3 6–4Loss 5. 19 August 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Věra Suková 7–5, 1–6, 1–6Win 6. 11 March 1962 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Lea Pericoli 6–2, 7–5Loss 7. 16 July 1962 Budapest, Hungary Clay Zsuzsa Körmöczy 1–6, 6–4, 4–6Loss 8. 1 August 1962 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Elizabeth Starkie 3–6, 0–6Loss 9. 20 August 1962 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Jan Lehane 3–6, 3–6Win 10. 2 February 1963 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Irina Ermolova 6–4, 6–3Loss 11. 10 June 1963 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Věra Suková 1–6, 6–4, 4–6Win 12. 8 March 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 8–6, 6–2Win 13. 18 May 1964 Algiers, Algeria Clay Françoise Dürr 6–3, 6–2Win 14. 16 August 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova 6–2 6–2Loss 15. 7 February 1965 Helsinki, Finland Hard (i) Elizabeth Starkie 2–6, 6–1, 3–6Loss 16. 14 August 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union Clay Ann Jones 1–6, 3–6Win 17. 18 September 1966 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Clay Alena Palmeová 6–2, 6–4Loss 18. 22 January 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Olga Morozova 7–9, 6–8Loss 19. 19 February 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva 2–6, 8–10Win 20. 4 March 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva 9–7, 6–4Loss 21. 19 March 1967 Alexandria, Egypt Clay Helga Schultze 6–4, 1–6, 6–8Loss 22. 27 September 1967 Tbilisi, Soviet Union Clay Olga Morozova 5–7, 6–4, 1–6Loss 23. 7 January 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Olga Morozova 9–7, 1–6, 8–10Win 24. 17 March 1968 Alexandria, Egypt Clay Robin Blakelock 6–0, 6–3Win 25. 6 January 1972 Minsk, Soviet Union Hard (i) Marina Chuvirina 6–4, 6–2Loss 26. 27 February 1972 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Eugenia Birioukova 4–6, 3–6

Doubles (15–7) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1. January 1960 Calcutta, India Hard Irina Ermolova Margaret Hellyer Mimi Arnold 5–7, 2–6Win 2. January 1960 New Delhi, India Hard Irina Ermolova Margaret Hellyer Mimi Arnold 4–6, 7–5, 6–0Win 3. January 1960 Indore, India Hard Irina Ermolova Dechu Appaiah Leela Panjabi 7–5, 6–1Win 4. 1 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Irina Ermolova Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya 6–2, 6–2Loss 5. 8 March 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Irina Ermolova Věra Suková Velve Tamm 6–8, 4–6Win 6. 7 August 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Irina Ermolova Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya 6–4, 6–4Win 7. 5 March 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Irina Ermolova Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya 6–0, 6–2Loss 8. 19 August 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Eva Johannes Věra Suková 6–1, 6–8, 4–6Win 9. 22 July 1962 Budapest, Hungary Clay Jitka Volavková Klara Bardoczy Zsuzsa Körmöczy 8–6, 6–2Win 10. 1 August 1962 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Jana Volková Vlasta Vopičková Jiřina Michlová 7–5, 6–2Win 11. 10 June 1963 Prague, Czechoslovakia Clay Irina Ermolova Zdena Stachová Vlasta Vopičková 6–4, 5–7, 6–1Win 12. 22 June 1963 London, United Kingdom Grass Judy Tegart Angela Mortimer Yola Ramírez 6–1 6–0Loss 13. 8 March 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Olga Lendlová Jana Sonska 4–6, 6–2, 5–7Loss 14. 16 August 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova Olga Lendlová Jana Sonska 6–3, 3–6, 5–7Win 15. 7 February 1965 Helsinki, Finland Hard (i) Gudrun Rosin Robin Blakelock Elizabeth Starkie 6–0, 6–4Win 16. 7 March 1965 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Vlasta Vopičková Helga Schultze 6–4, 7–9, 6–2Loss 17. 14 August 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Judy Tegart Ann Jones Betty Stöve 4–6, 6–2, 3–6Win 18. 19 February 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Tatiana Chalko Olga Morozova 6–2, 6–1Win 19. 4 March 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Tatiana Chalko Olga Morozova 6–3, 6–1Loss 20. 4 February 1968 Copenhagen, Denmark Hard (i) Galina Baksheeva Virginia Wade Joyce Williams 4–6, 3–6Win 21. 25 February 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union Hard Galina Baksheeva Rauza Islanova Olga Morozova 6–2, 7–5Win 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) ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreRunner-up 1958 Wimbledon Grass Sally Moore 2–6, 4–6