Eighteen-time USSR champion in singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles, Soviet tennis player Anna Dmitrieva has died at the age of 83. journalist Yuri Rost reports on his Telegram channel .
— Anna Dmitrieva, a person of incredible beauty, is gone. My closest and most sincere friend for many years… The emptiness is suffocating. And you knew her. Daughter of Vladimir Dmitriev, the great decorator, chief artist of the pre-war Moscow Art Theater, friend of Bulgakov.
Anya herself is a beautiful woman, a great tennis player, several absolute champions, an outstanding sports commentator on television and an organizer of the best sports programs. Educated, intelligent, subtly understanding everything, kind, tolerant… The head of a large and wonderful family: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, ”Rost wrote on social networks.
Dmitrieva was inducted into the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.
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