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Trav's ANNA KOURNIKOVA page
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ANNA's PROFILE
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Nationality: RUS
Birth Date: 7 June, 1981
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Residence: Moscow, Russia
Height: 1.68 metres
Weight: 50.9 kilos
Plays: Right
Year turned pro: 1995
Current rank for singles: 13
Current rank for doubles: 10
High rank for singles: 10
High rank date for singles: 22 June, 1998
High rank for doubles: 10
Career titles for doubles: 2
Career matches won: 63
Career matches lost: 35
Year to date matches won: 40
Year to date matches lost: 19
Career prize money: $959,575 USD
Year to date prize money for Singles: $450,081 USD
Year to date prize money for doubles: $116,918 USD
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DOUBLES FINAL
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Martina's Hat-Trick, Anna's First Grand Slam
Friday, 29 January, 1999
The third-seeded pairing of Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova claim their
first Grand Slam doubles title together, winning the Australian Open on Friday.
Match time: one hour, 12 minutes
Hingis and Kournikova: broke serve seven times
Hingis: missed only one return of serve for the match
Davenport and Zvereva: total of seven unforced errors on return of serve
Hingis and Kournikova: combined 76% of first serves in
Danvenport and Kournikova: each won only one point on their second serves
for the match
This is Hingis's third consecutive Australian Open doubles crown, and her
fifth doubles Grand Slam in a row
Hingis has won the Australian Open with three different partners -
Kournikova (1999), Mirjana Lucic (1998) and Zvereva (1997)
This is Kournikova's first Grand Slam title
Hingis, who will contest the singles final here on Saturday, has now gone
undefeated in her last 38 matches - singles and doubles - at the Australian Open;
the last match Hingis lost at the Australian Open was in the 1996 singles quarter
finals - a three-set loss to 16th seed Amanda Coetzer (she and Iva Majoli lost in
the doubles first round)
Women's Doubles - Finals - Centre Court
Lindsay Davenport
5
3
Natasha Zvereva
vs. Match Statistics
Martina Hingis
7
6
Anna Kournikova
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