Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna - an outstanding tennis player, winner of several competitions in the Grand Slam series. He is the Honored Master of Sports of Russia.
Svetlana Kuznetsova: biography
The future champion was born on June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg in a family of athletes. Since childhood, Svetlana instilled a love of a healthy lifestyle. Each morning for the family began with a joint charge, walks in the fresh air.
When did Svetlana Kuznetsova begin to seriously engage in sports? Tennis became a part of her life at the age of seventeen. Being on the court, the girl was a real delight. She managed to maintain similar sensations in adulthood.
The first serious victory came to Svetlana in 2001, when the athlete received the status of a professional at the age of 16. In the debut season, she managed to win the honorary ITF tournament. In 2004, the athlete reached the final stage of the US Open and won the competition. But unexpected success was only the beginning. After all, now the tennis player understood that new achievements would require her even more hard work in training and increased dedication.
Victories and awards of Svetlana
Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna more often than other domestic tennis players found herself in the final matches of a series
of Grand Slam tournaments. The athlete reached such high stages of the competition 6 times in doubles competitions and 4 times in singles.
As noted above, Svetlana is the winner of the United States Open. In 2004, in the final duel of the competition, Kuznetsova defeated another Russian athlete
Elena Dementieva. The next final, in which the tennis player met again with a compatriot, took place at the Roland Garros tournament in 2009, where the athlete defeated Dinara Safina.
What other achievements did Svetlana Kuznetsova consolidate for herself? Tennis allowed her to perform as many as 30 times in the title matches of major world tournaments. To date, the athlete shares the first position in the ranking of Russian athletes according to the number of finals, along with Marat Safin and Maria Sharapova.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (tennis player): personal life and hobbies
Outside the tennis court, a Russian athlete tries to lead a normal life. Svetlana is an inveterate football fan. The greatest pleasure for her is visiting the matches of her favorite team - St. Petersburg “Zenith”. He follows the successes of the Kuznetsov club and in the intervals between performances at world tennis tournaments.
Another weakness of Svetlana is snowboarding. In addition, in her spare time from training, the tennis player loves to dance to modern music, to study foreign languages.
Searching for a life partner today is not the most important task that Svetlana Kuznetsova sets for herself. Tennis is currently a priority for the athlete, as the Russian champion herself has repeatedly stated.
A family
In his youth, Svetlana’s father was engaged in cycling, and now participates in the preparation of young athletes for serious starts in this discipline.
The mother of the tennis player has repeatedly won gold medals in all the same cycling, in particular, she won 6 times in world championships. He has the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Today he holds the position of coach in one of the sports schools of St. Petersburg.
Svetlana Kuznetsova’s brother is the vice champion of the Atlanta Olympics, where at one time he earned prestigious awards in the races of the Russian team on the cycle track.
The latest achievements of the athlete
What success can Svetlana Kuznetsova boast today? Tennis continues to be her whole life business.
In 2015, in a duel against the Italian Francesca Schiavone at the Grand Slam tournament in France, the athlete played the longest match of her career, setting a kind of record. As a result of the meeting, the Russian woman lost to her rival, and the total time spent by tennis players on the court was 3 hours and 50 minutes.
In the same season of 2015/2016, Svetlana Kuznetsova chalked up another champion title at the Kremlin Cup tournament. In the final game, the champion defeated another Russian woman Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The meeting ended in two sets, the drawing of which was spent only 1 hour and 18 minutes.
The latest achievement in Svetlana’s newest career is a victory in the Premier series of competitions that took place in Sydney this year. On the way to the title, Kuznetsova beat the rating athletes such as Simone Halep, Sabina Lissitzky and Sara Errani. In the final meeting of the tournament, Svetlana defeated a tennis player from Puerto Rico, Monica Puig. Thus, the Russian athlete won her 16th title in her career.