Chakvetadze Anna Dzhambulievna is a well-known Russian tennis player, Honored Master of Sports, who completed her sports career in 2013. Currently she works as a commentator, often participates in various programs, gives interviews, and also predicts victories and failures in her favorite sport. At the end of her career, she opened a tennis school where young talents train.
Brief biography and personal life of the athlete
Anna Chakvetadze was born on March 5, 1987 in Moscow. Father is a businessman, originally from Georgia, mother is a housewife, originally from Ukraine. The family had three children: the older brother Vazha, Anna and the younger brother Roman. Vazha crashed in a car in 2000.
At the age of 8, her mother gave her daughter to the Valerie Children's International Academy, where the girl began to play tennis. The first trainers of Anna: Victor Pavlov, Pavel Ostrovsky, Chris Evert and Martin Strigali. The latter worked with a young tennis player on a hit.
Among Anna Chakvetadze’s hobbies are football, reading literature and shopping. Her favorite writer is Boris Akunin.
In 2008, she graduated with a degree in psychology and pedagogy. He knows English well.
She works at Eurosport as a commentator on tennis matches, before that she did the same on NTV + Tennis.
In 2014, she became the designer of her own line of sportswear, launched under the brand Ach Factory.
Little is known about Anna Chakvetadze’s personal life, but on the whole she is developing successfully. In 2014 she got married, she tries to devote a lot of time to home. In September 2018 she became a mother. Anna Chakvetadze’s husband is Pavel, he has his own business abroad.
The first success in sports
In junior sports, Anna has many significant achievements. Sports career began with the advent of the 2000s. She won several times in domestic Russian tournaments, and then began to show decent results among juniors in international competitions. One of the first trophies won was the Russian Ozerov Cup, then made its debut at the Grand Slam tournaments, after which it managed to reach the Wimbledon finals.
Between 2001 and 2004 Anna tried herself in adult competitions. In the ranking, where were the best rackets in the world, first hit in 2002. Having won the tournament in Serbiton on the grass, she made her way to the top 200 for the first time. World fame began to come after a victory match over Anastasia Myskina in the Roland Garros tournament. At the end of the season, there was a lost final in Batumi and qualifications for the Kremlin Cup and WTA tournament. At that time, Anna Chakvetadze was already in the top 100 adult ratings.
Since 2004, the tennis player has completely focused on adult professional sports, as among juniors she was already one of the twenty best in the world.
2006-2007
Anna won the first WTA title in 2006 in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Then, in the Kremlin Cup final, Nadezhda Petrova was defeated in two games.
The new season in 2007 began very well. Once again managed to win the WTA title in Australia. This was followed by a victory in Hertogenbosch (Holland), two victories in American cities at tournaments in Stanford and Cincinnati. In San Diego, she defeated Venus Williams herself, reaching the semifinals. The quarter finals at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and the US Open semi-finals can also be safely put in the asset of the athlete's victories. In the final of the Federation Cup, she won the match against Italian Francesca Schiavone. High results throughout the season allowed to take fifth place in the WTA ranking, and after the semi-finals in the final championship, Anna took sixth place.
2008 season
2008 for Anna Chakvetadze was extremely unsuccessful, if not completely disastrous. The tennis player and her family were attacked. At the competitions in Sydney and at the Australian Open failed to achieve a serious result. In the Federation Cup, she defeated Zipora Obziler from Israel with a score of 6: 4, 6: 2 and led the Russian team to the semifinals. A week later, in the final of the Open GDF Suez tournament, Agnes Sawai defeated, after which there were less and less victories, a series of failures went, where Anna lost to very weak opponents.
Success again came at the tournament in Doha, where on the way to the quarter-finals they managed to get around strong athletes: Agnieszka Radwanska and Dinara Safin. In the unpaved part of the season, Anna reached the semifinals in Madrid.
Then went defeats at the Roland Garros and Wimbledon tournaments, after which Anna refused to participate in the Beijing Olympics, lost the US Open. In subsequent tournaments, she won only twice.
Continued recession in 2009
Lost in the second round at the Australian Open and US Open, in the eighth finals of tournaments in Rome and Madrid, followed by a loss in the first match of the French Open.
Success can only be called a victory over the Serbian tennis player from the top 10 Elena Jankovic. Wimbledon was also a failure. Due to the loss, Anna flew out of the top 30. Unsuccessful performance at the Grand Slam tournament further lowered the tennis player in the ranking.
Failures 2010-2011
Anna could not start the 2010 season with victories, but later her form improved and progress was made in the game.
First, there was a departure from the tournament in Hobart at the qualification stage and a loss in the first round of the Australian Open. Then Anna was overtaken by an ankle injury and had to miss several tournaments. Later, there was a defeat in the open championship of France in the first round. Failures knocked out a tennis player from the first hundred of the WTA rating.
Returning to the top 100 was not long in coming. More than successfully developed the second part of the season on the grass. Anna Chakvetadze twice defeated Andrea Petkovich, won the WTA tournament and took part in the doubles final with Ksenia Pervak.
At the tournament in Copenhagen, we managed to reach the semi-finals, the Emblem Health Bronx Open 2010 tournament was won in New York. The tiredness from previous performances did not allow Anna to count on success in the US Open, she dropped out in the first round, but managed to reach the quarterfinals at the Kremlin Cup .
The next year cannot be called successful; it began with two defeats in New Zealand and Australia. The Australian Open was also a failure. The next tournament in Dubai was remembered by the fact that Anna fainted in a match with Caroline Wozniacki . In the following competitions in Indian Wells, the tennis player refused to continue the match with Maria Kirilenko. After another swoon at the tournament in Stuttgart, a defeat in the first round in the Dutch Hertogenbosch and Wimbledon against Maria Sharapova, the Russian woman took only 231st place in the ranking.
Injury and retirement
With professional tennis, Anna Chakvetadze decided to finish in 2013 due to physical fatigue and inability to continue to take part in tournaments.
After a medical examination in Moscow, Anna returned to the court in Indian Wells, but in the match against Maria Kirilenko she felt bad, and later lost consciousness. Doctors have established the cause, the diagnosis of neurocardiogenic syncope. The new course of treatment in Moscow did not help to fully recover and at the next tournament in Germany Anna again fainted. There she resumed treatment, and the rehabilitation course continued in Moscow. Inflammation of the inner ear turned out to be a new cause of malaise, in connection with which we had to freeze the rating and later announce the end of our sports career.
Anna Chakvetadze Tennis School
Enroll in a tennis school of a famous Russian athlete can children aged 4 to 16 years, the number of places is limited. The coaching staff includes three people, it includes experienced specialists working according to the methodology that Anna developed herself. The goal of creating Anna Chakvetadze’s school is to raise a professional tennis player who is able to adequately perform on a global level.