Anna Kournikova
Chronology
1981 | Born in Moscow, Russia |
1986 | Began playing tennis in a weekly children's program |
1992-97 | Trained at tennis professional Nick Bollettieri's camp in Bradenton, Florida |
1995 | Made professional tennis debut at age 14 |
1997 | Broke from coach Bollettieri |
2000 | Plays French Open on badly injured ankle, against doctors' advice |
2000 | Makes cameo appearance in Me, Myself & Irene, a motion picture starring Jim Carrey |
2001 | Suffers stress fracture of left foot |
2001 | Appears in Enrique Iglesias' video "Escape." |
2002 | Settles out of court with Penthouse magazine over publication of topless photos on a beach; photos were not of Kournikova |
2002 | Thirty-minute feature: A Date With Anna: The Making of the Anna Kournikova Calendar airs on ESPN/ESPN2 |
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