The famous Russian tennis player Anastasia Myskina is an honored master of sports, the first racket of Russia and the second ex-racket of the world. Since 1998, her name can be found in the list of 500 best tennis players in the world, and in 2003 - in the top ten. Anastasia Myskina in her entire sports career has won nine singles and two doubles WTA tournaments. In 2004, she won the Grand Slam tournament and entered the history of world tennis as the first Russian athlete to win this cup. Since 2007, Anastasia began to try herself as a TV presenter in such programs as “Our Football” and “Tell me what’s wrong ?!”
Anastasia Myskina. Biography of the famous athlete: childhood
Beauty, TV presenter, actress, well, and the famous tennis player Anastasia Myskina was born in 1981, on July 8, in Moscow. When she was six years old, her parents brought Nastya to the tennis section of the Spartak sports club. So she got into a big sport. Her first coach was Rauza Islanova - the mother of Marat and Dinara Safinyh. By the way, for many years she was connected with Dinara by warm and friendly relations, which continue to this day. Here, another Russian tennis celebrity, Lena Dementieva, also trained with her. Nastya’s relations with her were cooler, because they often had to be rivals and fight for the best places.
The path to fame
In 1998, seventeen-year-old Anastasia Myskina became a member of the Russian national tennis team. A year later, she managed to win her first singles tournament. It was on the island of Sicily, in Palermo. Immediately after that, she was included in the list of 500 best tennis players on the planet. For the next 4 years, she confidently strode towards her goal, and in 2003 she was recognized as one of the top 10 tennis players in the world, as well as the first racket of the Russian Federation.
In 2004, Anastasia Myskina strengthened her position and won the Grand Slam tournament. Then followed a victory over her longtime girlfriend Elena Dementieva at the French Open Championship Rolland Gaross, and a few months later she won the Kremlin Cup. This year was the most successful for her throughout her sports career. Anastasia Myskina became the 2nd racket of the world and officially recognized ITF World Champion. Nastya was the only Russian woman awarded this title.
2005 is the year of failures
But 2005, on the contrary, was a year of failure for her. It all started with the fact that Anastasia's mother fell ill with cancer. Frustrated due to her mother’s illness, the famous tennis player could not concentrate on her game and began to rarely appear in international tournaments. As a result, she fell out of the list of “10 best tennis players”. For this year she had only one successful tournament. In the same fateful year, due to some scandal, Myskina left the national team.
The beginning of a leading career
In 2006, during the French Open, Anastasia Myskina took an unpredictable step that stunned everyone - she gave up without a fight. Then she said that she wants to end her sports career and goes on television as a presenter. She began to lead the sports program "Our Football" on the NTV channel. Two years later, at the "Home" Nastya appeared in the program "Tell me what's wrong ?!" This was no longer a sports show, but a real talk show about human relationships.
Helping the audience solve their problems, Nastya herself could not figure out her own. During this period, she had two unsuccessful novels. In addition, tennis haunted the young woman. She missed her favorite sport and therefore soon went to the NTV Plus channel as a tennis commentator. Anastasia also took part in the television project “Ice Age”, proving that the tennis player could ride on ice on the shoulder.
Personal life
Nastya Myskina for some time had a serious relationship with the Tatar club footballer Alexander Stepanov, but this relationship did not result in anything serious. Then she began an affair with the captain of the CSKA team Kostya Korneev. Here, between the young, everything was much more serious, and they planned to get married, but their engagement, due to some circumstances, broke.
After a while, Nastya began to meet with the owner of Volgaburmash, Sergey Mammadov, the son of the Russian ambassador to Canada. Soon she became pregnant and in 2008 gave birth to his son Zhenya. Sergei and Nastya began to live in a civil marriage and were in no hurry to legitimize their relationship. Despite this, the girl in 2010 and 2012 gave birth to two more sons, George and Paul. The common-law husband of Anastasia Myskina was simply happy, becoming the father of three beautiful boys-heroes. The parents of this couple were also happy, the grandchildren grew up and pleased them.
Children of Anastasia Myskina
Being a mother of three little sons is not an easy task. “Being a champion is much easier than raising three sons,” the former world tennis champion admits. Today, for Nastya, the children are in the first, most important place, well, and then her husband. “Let Sergey forgive me, but it is,” the young mother says cheerfully.
Between her boys the age difference is about two years. Senior Wife is already 6, and he attends school preparatory classes. He perfectly understands that he’s already very big, soon to go to school, and that he is no match for the two younger brothers, but he can fight with them over some kind of toy. In fact, when Zhenya is not at home, Georgy and Pavel divide the property and drag everything into their rooms. Eugene is also involved in the tennis section, although Nastya believes that he should not become a professional tennis player, and that this is not a good profession for a man.
After the birth of the children, the “three-time” mother realized that she needs to go in for sports again in order to keep fit: visit the pool, gym, etc. Trainers say that sometimes Anastasia Myskina comes to their room with the children and starts doing everything together. Looking at it is a pleasure.
Coaching career
Today Nastya is the national team coach. However, she admits that she is working with already fully-fledged athletes, that she does not consider herself a coach who could lead his student from 6 years to the end. Another thing is the athletes who were already able to enter the national team. Who needs it, she will help with advice, but full coaching is not for her yet.
“The main people”
The latest show, hosted by Anastasia Myskina, is called “The Main People”. She is very close in essence to Nastya, because she is about children. To whom, no matter how the woman who gave birth to three sons, to conduct this transfer. And its name is more than symbolic: children are the most important, main people in our lives. Let them be small, let while they are capricious and naughty, nevertheless they adorn our life.
Unsportsmanlike awards of Anastasia Myskina
The famous athlete has many sports awards that she truly deserves. However, she was awarded many more prestigious prizes. So, in 2005, she received the Olympia Prize for her achievements. In 2009, she was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Since 2011, Nastya has been a Member of the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame.