Anna Dmitrieva Biography
Born Dec. 10, 1940. Father - Dmitriev Vladimir Vladimirovich, was the chief designer Theater,. Mother - a famous actress. Stepfather - Kirill Molchanov, composer. Half-brother - Molchanov Vladimir Kirillovich, a well-known author and presenter of TV programs.
The strongest tennis player of the USSR late 1950's - 1960. One of the leading masters of rackets in Europe in mid-1960. First among the Soviet participant's tennis at Wimbledon. Popular sports commentator, one of the organizers of Russia's first sports TV channel ... Such is a brief record of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anna Dmitrieva.
Anna grew up in an artistic environment, the world's creative elite. Tennis court for the first time I saw a future champion in the suburban house of rest "cape", where in the postwar years often spent summers Moscow Art Theater. Together with his father there on vacation and Anya. Here, girls often witnessed tennis tournaments Theater, full of dramatic intensity, with champions and favorites. At neglected, overgrown with grass court in Pestovo unfolded neshutochnye tennis battle.
The strongest tennis player at the time of the country and the Moscow Art Theater was a great Nikolai Ozerov. But the ultimate authority for many veterans of MAT was granduncle of Anna Dmitrieva - Vsevolod A. Verbitsky. For the right to be called the second racket long dispute waged between them Mikhail Yanshin, Eugene V. Kaluga, Mikhail N. Kidron, Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn, Alexander Komissarov ... Unparalleled names, idols of generations.
They say that in tournaments with the participation Verbitskogo once walked the entire theater, and his tennis victory was celebrated as the premiere. But not on stage or on the tennis court to see him Dmitrieva was not able to. At a time when he taught grandniece of holding a racket, he was already seriously ill. The girl became so fond of tennis, which is almost never parted with the racket. All summer long dreamed show uncle Seva, as she learned to play well. One morning he said Anya: "Today I come to watch you," but at the same morning, Vsevolod Alekseevich died suddenly.
The next two summers, Anya D. diligently worked on the court and succeeded in significantly. Moscow Art Theater has always styled her future champion. Maybe someone really believed that the girl had inherited the talent of his great-uncle. One way or another, but shortly before her seriously question arose of what to do: ballet, which she dreamed, like most girls, or are serious about tennis. The final choice was made in the home of the nearest friend of the family theater artist Boris Erdmann, who after the sudden death of Anna's father was caring for her older friend. Once he invited me to dinner the famous tennis champion 1920-1930-ies Nina Sergeyevna Teplyakova. Learning about girl's talent and her passion for tennis, she invited Dmitriev to his section tennis DSO Dynamo. Then Anya, of course, could not and suggest that it is destined to defend the colors of the club over a dozen years.
January 11, 1953 performed great pride Anna Dmitrieva stood at the wall in winter courts stadium "Dinamo". The first time she, like all newcomers, were to play only at the wall. Initial tennis lessons gave her Nina Leo, who for years was part of the ten best tennis players in the country and led to the Dynamo group of junior girls. Dmitriev worked with great pleasure, although the first time a sports environment seemed to her a strange, almost hostile: and at school and at home she lived in a completely different atmosphere ...
. For the first time in my life real competition starts tennis hit accidentally
. At the end of its first sport of the summer on Sunday at the stadium team championship was held in Moscow, and in one of the teams lacked the younger girls. All running around the stadium and looking for a replacement. In the eyes of head coach of Dynamo B.I. Novikov caught Anna Dmitrieva, calmly walking around the stadium in the new tennis shoes. His first game she lost. But a year later participated in the same competitions as the current champions and easily won peers from other clubs in the capital. Speaking under the direction of NS. Teplyakova, Dmitriev won in individual competition. With these victories 13-year-old tennis player, opened the account of its unique list of titles won by her at the courts of the country and the world.
In 16 years, Anna Dmitrieva allowed to speak in adult tournaments. In 1956 she won the Moscow championship in doubles and mixed doubles, . in 1957 - winning in singles and doubles, . becomes the winner of the All-Union school sports days in doubles, . successfully played on national championship in Tbilisi, . first among the ten best tennis players in the country, . becomes the master of sports of the USSR.,

Anna Dmitrieva