Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva was born in Minsk, Belarus on April 16th, 1971 and is the Tennis Player. At the age of 53, Natasha Zvereva biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Natallya Zvereva (born 16 April 1971) is a professional tennis player from Belarus.
She was the first female major athlete in the Soviet Union to claim publicly that she should keep her tournament earnings.
Zvereva and Gigi Fernández's crew earned more women's doubles titles and Grand Slam women's doubles championships than any other team after the 2010 championships were won by Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver.
Personal life
Natalya Zvereva Zvereva was born in Minsk, Belarus, to parents Marat Nikolayevich Zvereva and Nina Grigoryevna Zvereva. She began tennis at the age of seven at the encouragement of her parents, who were both tennis coaches in the Soviet Union. Although her name is sometimes written Zverava, she officially changed her name to Natasha Zvereva in 1994. "A red Mercedes-Benz, a big one" answered the question at 18, "an important one."
Career
Zvereva won the Wimbledon girls' singles championship in 1986, defeating Leila Meskhi in the final 2–6, 6–7. In 1987, Zvereva took the US Open girls singles championship for the second time, defeating Sandra Birch 6–0, 6–3.
Zvereva, who turned pro, has won four WTA Tour singles titles and 80 WTA Tour doubles titles, 18 of which have been in Grand Slam tournaments: five at Wimbledon, four at the French Open, five at the Australian Open, five at the French Open, and four at the Australian Open. Gigi Fernández, Martina Hingis, Pam Shriver, and Larisa Savchenko Neiland were all successful in grand Slam doubles titles with four different partners: Gigi Fernández, Martina Hingis, Pam Shriver, and Larisa Savchenko Neiland. She appeared in non-calendar year Grand Slams twice: in 1992–93 with Fernández, and 1996–97 with Fernández (three tournaments) and Hingis (Australia).
Zvereva won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in addition to her Grand Slam doubles titles.
Despite the fact that Zvereva was a strong doubles player and considered by some to be one of the best doubles players of all time, she had limited success in singles. However, she reached the French Open final in 1988, defeating Martina Navratilova en route. She lost in a highly awaited final to Steffi Graf 0–6, 0–6 in 34 minutes. The official time of the match was 34 minutes, but just 32 minutes of that was spent on the court, as a rain break split the game into two periods of play, ranging from nine to 23 minutes. This was the shortest and most one-sided Grand Slam final ever. (Graf won all four Grand Slam singles titles as well as an Olympic gold medal that year.)
Zvereva is one of the few players to have defeated both Graf and Monica Seles, both former world champions, in the same Grand Slam singles tournament. Zvereva defeated Graf in the third round, 6–5, 7–5, and sixth-seeded Seles in a quarterfinal 7–6, 6–2. This was also significant because it was Zvereva's sole victory over Graf in 21 singles matches. She lost in the semifinals to Nathalie Tauziat, her second best Grand Slam singles result in her career. Zvereva began competing in 51 of the 54 Grand Slam singles tournaments held, winning or better eight times, beginning with the French Open in 1987 and running through Wimbledon in 2000.
Zvereva twice won the Australian Open mixed-doubles title in addition to her Grand Slam women's doubles titles. She worked with Jim Pugh to win the title in 1990 and 1995, and with Rick Leach in 1995.
In 2003, Zvereva retired from professional tennis. She last appeared in a Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to Marlene Weingärtner 6–6, 2–6.