Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (Russian: Анна Владимировна Дми́триева; 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. After 1993, she worked with NTV, 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.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1.9 August 1959Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova6–3, 6–1
Loss2.1 March 1960Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova3–6, 6–1, 2–6
Win3.7 August 1960Moscow, Soviet UnionHardCzechoslovakia Jirina Elgrová6–2 6–4
Win4.2 July 1961Budapest, HungaryClayHungary Zsuzsa Körmöczy6–3 6–4
Loss5.19 August 1961Moscow, Soviet UnionClayCzechoslovakia Věra Suková7–5, 1–6, 1–6
Win6.11 March 1962Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Italy Lea Pericoli6–2, 7–5
Loss7.16 July 1962Budapest, HungaryClayHungary Zsuzsa Körmöczy1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss8.1 August 1962Prague, CzechoslovakiaClayUnited Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie3–6, 0–6
Loss9.20 August 1962Moscow, Soviet UnionClayAustralia Jan Lehane3–6, 3–6
Win10.2 February 1963Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Irina Ermolova6–4, 6–3
Loss11.10 June 1963Prague, CzechoslovakiaClayCzechoslovakia Věra Suková1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win12.8 March 1964Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova8–6, 6–2
Win13.18 May 1964Algiers, AlgeriaClayFrance Françoise Dürr6–3, 6–2
Win14.16 August 1964Moscow, Soviet UnionClaySoviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova6–2 6–2
Loss15.7 February 1965Helsinki, FinlandHard (i)United Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie2–6, 6–1, 3–6
Loss16.14 August 1966Moscow, Soviet UnionClayUnited Kingdom Ann Jones1–6, 3–6
Win17.18 September 1966Belgrade, YugoslaviaClayCzechoslovakia Alena Palmeová6–2, 6–4
Loss18.22 January 1967Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Olga Morozova7–9, 6–8
Loss19.19 February 1967Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva2–6, 8–10
Win20.4 March 1967Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Galina Baksheeva9–7, 6–4
Loss21.19 March 1967Alexandria, EgyptClayWest Germany Helga Schultze6–4, 1–6, 6–8
Loss22.27 September 1967Tbilisi, Soviet UnionClaySoviet Union Olga Morozova5–7, 6–4, 1–6
Loss23.7 January 1968Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Olga Morozova9–7, 1–6, 8–10
Win24.17 March 1968Alexandria, EgyptClayUnited Kingdom Robin Blakelock6–0, 6–3
Win25.6 January 1972Minsk, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Marina Chuvirina6–4, 6–2
Loss26.27 February 1972Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Eugenia Birioukova4–6, 3–6

Doubles (15–7)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss1.January 1960Calcutta, IndiaHardSoviet Union Irina ErmolovaAustralia Margaret Hellyer United States Mimi Arnold5–7, 2–6
Win2.January 1960New Delhi, IndiaHardSoviet Union Irina ErmolovaAustralia Margaret Hellyer United States Mimi Arnold4–6, 7–5, 6–0
Win3.January 1960Indore, IndiaHardSoviet Union Irina ErmolovaIndia Dechu Appaiah India Leela Panjabi7–5, 6–1
Win4.1 March 1960Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Irina ErmolovaSoviet Union Vera Filippova Soviet Union Larissa Preobrazhenskaya6–2, 6–2
Loss5.8 March 1960Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Irina ErmolovaCzechoslovakia Věra Suková Soviet Union Velve Tamm6–8, 4–6
Win6.7 August 1960Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Irina ErmolovaSoviet Union Vera Filippova Soviet Union Larissa Preobrazhenskaya6–4, 6–4
Win7.5 March 1961Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Irina ErmolovaSoviet Union Vera Filippova Soviet Union Larissa Preobrazhenskaya6–0, 6–2
Loss8.19 August 1961Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-TitovaWest Germany Eva Johannes Czechoslovakia Věra Suková6–1, 6–8, 4–6
Win9.22 July 1962Budapest, HungaryClayCzechoslovakia Jitka VolavkováHungary Klara Bardoczy Hungary Zsuzsa Körmöczy8–6, 6–2
Win10.1 August 1962Prague, CzechoslovakiaClayCzechoslovakia Jana VolkováCzechoslovakia Vlasta Vopičková Czechoslovakia Jiřina Michlová7–5, 6–2
Win11.10 June 1963Prague, CzechoslovakiaClaySoviet Union Irina ErmolovaCzechoslovakia Zdena Stachová Czechoslovakia Vlasta Vopičková6–4, 5–7, 6–1
Win12.22 June 1963London, United KingdomGrassAustralia Judy TegartUnited Kingdom Angela Mortimer Mexico Yola Ramírez6–1 6–0
Loss13.8 March 1964Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-TitovaCzechoslovakia Olga Lendlová Czechoslovakia Jana Sonska4–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss14.16 August 1964Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Valeria Kuzmenko-TitovaCzechoslovakia Olga Lendlová Czechoslovakia Jana Sonska6–3, 3–6, 5–7
Win15.7 February 1965Helsinki, FinlandHard (i)Sweden Gudrun RosinUnited Kingdom Robin Blakelock United Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie6–0, 6–4
Win16.7 March 1965Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Galina BaksheevaCzechoslovakia Vlasta Vopičková West Germany Helga Schultze6–4, 7–9, 6–2
Loss17.14 August 1966Moscow, Soviet UnionHardAustralia Judy TegartUnited Kingdom Ann Jones Netherlands Betty Stöve4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Win18.19 February 1967Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Galina BaksheevaSoviet Union Tatiana Chalko Soviet Union Olga Morozova6–2, 6–1
Win19.4 March 1967Moscow, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Galina BaksheevaSoviet Union Tatiana Chalko Soviet Union Olga Morozova6–3, 6–1
Loss20.4 February 1968Copenhagen, DenmarkHard (i)Soviet Union Galina BaksheevaUnited Kingdom Virginia Wade United Kingdom Joyce Williams4–6, 3–6
Win21.25 February 1968Moscow, Soviet UnionHardSoviet Union Galina BaksheevaSoviet Union Rauza Islanova Soviet Union Olga Morozova6–2, 7–5
Win22.6 January 1972Minsk, Soviet UnionHard (i)Soviet Union Marina ChuvirinaSoviet Union Larisa Novoshinskaya Soviet Union Anna Yeremeyeva6–3, 3–6, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (1-0)

ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1958WimbledonGrassUnited States Sally Moore2–6, 4–6

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