# Anna Dmitrieva

Anna Vladimirovna Dmitrieva (Russian: Анна Владимировна Дми́триева; 10 December 1940 — 24 June 2024) was a tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union, as well as a sports commentator.

## Biography

Anna Dmitrieva started playing tennis at the age of 12. In less than a year she had won the Moscow junior championships as a member of the Dynamo team, and the next year she also became Moscow junior singles champion. At the age of 16 she was allowed to play at senior tournaments, and in a year she became champion of Moscow in singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
In 1958, when the USSR joined the International Tennis Federation, Dmitrieva became a member of the first Soviet delegation at the Wimbledon Championships. She reached the final of the junior girls' tournament.
In 1958–1967, Dmitrieva won 18 titles in the Soviet Championships: five times in singles, nine in women's doubles and four times in mixed doubles. In 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1964 she won the championships in all three categories.
Dmitrieva also won the open championships of Czechoslovakia and Hungary (1962), Uganda (1963), and Yugoslavia (1966). She also won the women's tournament at the Queen's Club in 1963 and the Wimbledon Ladies Plate in 1965. She won a number of amateur tournaments in Africa from 1964 to 1968 and the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in Jakarta in 1963.
At the Grand Slam tournaments, her greatest success was reaching the Wimbledon doubles semis in 1963 with Judy Tegart; they lost to the eventual champions Maria Bueno and Darlene Hard. At the Wimbledon Championships, Dmitrieva also reached the quarterfinals twice in ladies' doubles (in 1960 and 1967) and in mixed doubles in 1967 when she and Alexander Metreveli played the longest game in the tournament's history against Bueno and Ken Fletcher. Dmitrieva also played in the French Open doubles quarterfinals in 1968.
After finishing her player's career in the late 1960s, Dmitrieva worked as a tennis coach for four years and then became a sports journalist and commentator for Soviet TV and radio. She started as a commentator on TV in 1976, with Alex Metreveli. After 1993, she worked with NTV, Match TV, which she left because the channel stopped covering tennis tournaments, and Eurosport.
Dmitrieva died on 24 June 2024, at the age of 83.

## ILTF Career finals
### Singles (12–14)

| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1. | 9 August 1959 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Loss | 2. | 1 March 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | 3–6, 6–1, 2–6 |
| Win | 3. | 7 August 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Jirina Elgrová | 6–2 6–4 |
| Win | 4. | 2 July 1961 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | Zsuzsa Körmöczy | 6–3 6–4 |
| Loss | 5. | 19 August 1961 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | Věra Suková | 7–5, 1–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 6. | 11 March 1962 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Lea Pericoli | 6–2, 7–5 |
| Loss | 7. | 16 July 1962 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | Zsuzsa Körmöczy | 1–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
| Loss | 8. | 1 August 1962 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | Elizabeth Starkie | 3–6, 0–6 |
| Loss | 9. | 20 August 1962 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | Jan Lehane | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 10. | 2 February 1963 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Irina Ermolova | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 11. | 10 June 1963 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | Věra Suková | 1–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
| Win | 12. | 8 March 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | 8–6, 6–2 |
| Win | 13. | 18 May 1964 | Algiers, Algeria | Clay | Françoise Dürr | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 14. | 16 August 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | 6–2 6–2 |
| Loss | 15. | 7 February 1965 | Helsinki, Finland | Hard (i) | Elizabeth Starkie | 2–6, 6–1, 3–6 |
| Loss | 16. | 14 August 1966 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Clay | Ann Jones | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 17. | 18 September 1966 | Belgrade, Yugoslavia | Clay | Alena Palmeová | 6–2, 6–4 |
| Loss | 18. | 22 January 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Olga Morozova | 7–9, 6–8 |
| Loss | 19. | 19 February 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Galina Baksheeva | 2–6, 8–10 |
| Win | 20. | 4 March 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Galina Baksheeva | 9–7, 6–4 |
| Loss | 21. | 19 March 1967 | Alexandria, Egypt | Clay | Helga Schultze | 6–4, 1–6, 6–8 |
| Loss | 22. | 27 September 1967 | Tbilisi, Soviet Union | Clay | Olga Morozova | 5–7, 6–4, 1–6 |
| Loss | 23. | 7 January 1968 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Olga Morozova | 9–7, 1–6, 8–10 |
| Win | 24. | 17 March 1968 | Alexandria, Egypt | Clay | Robin Blakelock | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Win | 25. | 6 January 1972 | Minsk, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Marina Chuvirina | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Loss | 26. | 27 February 1972 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Eugenia Birioukova | 4–6, 3–6 |

### Doubles (15–7)

| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 1. | January 1960 | Calcutta, India | Hard | Irina Ermolova | Margaret Hellyer Mimi Arnold | 5–7, 2–6 |
| Win | 2. | January 1960 | New Delhi, India | Hard | Irina Ermolova | Margaret Hellyer Mimi Arnold | 4–6, 7–5, 6–0 |
| Win | 3. | January 1960 | Indore, India | Hard | Irina Ermolova | Dechu Appaiah Leela Panjabi | 7–5, 6–1 |
| Win | 4. | 1 March 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Irina Ermolova | Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya | 6–2, 6–2 |
| Loss | 5. | 8 March 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Irina Ermolova | Věra Suková Velve Tamm | 6–8, 4–6 |
| Win | 6. | 7 August 1960 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Irina Ermolova | Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya | 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 7. | 5 March 1961 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Irina Ermolova | Vera Filippova Larissa Preobrazhenskaya | 6–0, 6–2 |
| Loss | 8. | 19 August 1961 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | Eva Johannes Věra Suková | 6–1, 6–8, 4–6 |
| Win | 9. | 22 July 1962 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | Jitka Volavková | Klara Bardoczy Zsuzsa Körmöczy | 8–6, 6–2 |
| Win | 10. | 1 August 1962 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | Jana Volková | Vlasta Vopičková Jiřina Michlová | 7–5, 6–2 |
| Win | 11. | 10 June 1963 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Clay | Irina Ermolova | Zdena Stachová Vlasta Vopičková | 6–4, 5–7, 6–1 |
| Win | 12. | 22 June 1963 | London, United Kingdom | Grass | Judy Tegart | Angela Mortimer Yola Ramírez | 6–1 6–0 |
| Loss | 13. | 8 March 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | Olga Lendlová Jana Sonska | 4–6, 6–2, 5–7 |
| Loss | 14. | 16 August 1964 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Valeria Kuzmenko-Titova | Olga Lendlová Jana Sonska | 6–3, 3–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 15. | 7 February 1965 | Helsinki, Finland | Hard (i) | Gudrun Rosin | Robin Blakelock Elizabeth Starkie | 6–0, 6–4 |
| Win | 16. | 7 March 1965 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Galina Baksheeva | Vlasta Vopičková Helga Schultze | 6–4, 7–9, 6–2 |
| Loss | 17. | 14 August 1966 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Judy Tegart | Ann Jones Betty Stöve | 4–6, 6–2, 3–6 |
| Win | 18. | 19 February 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Galina Baksheeva | Tatiana Chalko Olga Morozova | 6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 19. | 4 March 1967 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Galina Baksheeva | Tatiana Chalko Olga Morozova | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Loss | 20. | 4 February 1968 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Hard (i) | Galina Baksheeva | Virginia Wade Joyce Williams | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 21. | 25 February 1968 | Moscow, Soviet Union | Hard | Galina Baksheeva | Rauza Islanova Olga Morozova | 6–2, 7–5 |
| Win | 22. | 6 January 1972 | Minsk, Soviet Union | Hard (i) | Marina Chuvirina | Larisa Novoshinskaya Anna Yeremeyeva | 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 |

## Junior Grand Slam finals
### Girls' singles: 1 (1-0)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Runner-up | 1958 | Wimbledon | Grass | Sally Moore | 2–6, 4–6 |