Anna Dmitrieva taught young tennis players not tennis, but attitude to life; she came late to journalism, but achieved a lot, said photographer, journalist and writer Yuri Rost.
On Thursday, a farewell ceremony will be held at the Novodevichy cemetery for Soviet tennis player and sports commentator Anna Dmitrieva. His death was announced on June 24. Dmitrieva died at the age of 83. She was eighteen times USSR tennis champion in singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Dmitrieva ended her career in the early 1970s and began working as a journalist, including more than 15 years editing sports programs at the USSR State Radio and Television Company.
— Anya and I have had a close friendship for 50 years. During this time, she never made any imprecise movements or inaccurate words. She was tolerant and tolerant. She loved who she loved. I forgave. She created a big family. There was such a film “Mama Roma”, that’s how Anya was, for the family. She taught many young tennis players not tennis, but their attitude to life. They became attached to her for the rest of their lives. She came late to journalism, but she did a lot. She had her own attachments and her own people. Anya brought normal and correct Russian to television. She came from the family of a great theater artist. They were an intelligent Moscow family. Without the false images that everyone is looking for. For me, this is a significant loss. I don’t need time to understand its role in my life. She was very important. Not just for me, but in general. When she just talked about tennis, they were lessons in privacy and honesty, and we really need them now, ”reports correspondent, reporting Rost’s words.
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.
Dmitrieva was inducted into the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.
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