Head of the Russian Tennis Federation (RFT) Shamil Tarpishchev on the air of the show “Tous pour le Match!” said that Anna Dmitrieva was the athlete with whom the history of the development of Soviet and Russian tennis began.
On Monday, it became known that Dmitrieva had died at the age of 83. She was eighteen times USSR champion in singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
“The era of the creation of Soviet-Russian tennis began with her. She was the first representative of a galaxy of players who went to Wimbledon and achieved results.
What she did on television for tennis and for its popularization… The whole generation of players who brought real glory to tennis throughout the world passed through her hands and shoulders,” Tarpishchev said on the channel.
Dmitrieva ended her tennis career in the early 1970s and began working as a journalist, including more than 15 years editing sports programs for USSR state television and radio. In 1997, Dmitrieva received the Russian national Golden Microphone award as the best sports commentator on Russian television. From 2004 to 2010, she headed the management of the NTV-Plus sports channels, then worked on the channel.
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