Anna Kurnikova… Her name may never have been found in the pantheon of his best athletes in the world, with the top moment of her career being the title of the No.8 of the world ranking, however no one can fail to recognize to the Russian champion that she was a real star within and outside the court. Tennis star Anna Kurnikova, who retired very early from the corts – only at 21 years old – and devoted herself to her family with Enrique Iglesias, causing concerns about her health. CORVERSE Russian tennis player and beauty were seen at the Bal Harbour Shops in Miami, Florida, also wearing an orthopedic boot on her one leg. The photos brought to light by Daily Mail show Kurnikova dressed in a black sports ensemble, having a pair of black sunglasses in her hair. As the Independent recalls, Kurnikova retired from tennis at the age of 21 (in 2003) due to a series of back and spine injuries. She stayed in history for her game and her beauty. He met famous singer Enrique Iglesias in 2001 in filming the video of the song “Escape ” and have had three children, while they have chosen to keep their relationship and family life away from the spotlight and live in Miami. CORVERSE Iglesias had previously spoken in an interview with him, about their decision not to marry. “It may be because I come from divorced parents, but I don’t think you love anyone more because of a paper,” he said in 2012. “Today, it is not taboo to have children and not to be married. What makes the difference is being a good parent,” he had completed. Anna Kurnikova is without exaggeration one of the most impressive tennis players and did everything early in her career. He shone early and retired early. The blonde beauty was born on June 7, 1981. It comes from a sports family, so he didn’t have much chance of escaping the… sports spirit. Her father, Sergei Kournikov, was a former champion of the Greco-Roman struggle and a sports and track teacher, her mother, Alla, was a 400-meter runner in her youth, and her brother later became a world golf champion. She loved tennis and made history. At the age of 14, Kurnikova won the European Championship and Italian Open junior. He reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 1997, where he lost to the incredible Martina Hingis and by the end of the following year was a member of Top 20. She became the No. 8 of her career’s world ranking. Before she turned 18 she had played in two Grand Slam finals in the double and had won a cup. The… Spice Girls of tennis In simple never won a title but in double made a difference along with Martina Hingish. With Martina they won, among other things, the 1999 Australian Open and the Australian Open 2002 while in 1999 and 2000 the young Russian woman along with the “phenomenon” won the WTA Tour Championships and stayed in history as “the Spice Girls of tennis”. Other successes followed as the two won titles at Indian Wells, Rome, Eastbourne and WTA Finals. Within a year Kurnikova had become the No. 1 of the double ranking with 16 titles within 4 years Early departure from tennis In 2001, the Kurnikova season began positively, as it reached its second quarter final in Grand Slam at the Australian Open, but this was soon changed by a fracture in her left leg requiring surgery. The following year Kurnikova recovered in fitness and form, as she competed in the semi-finals of Oakland, Tokyo, Acapulco and San Diego, as well as in the China Open final. But again, her biggest success was double, with her and Hingish again winning the title at the Australian Open. Kurnikova faced more injuries in 2003, as a blow in the middle and a pull on the admissions forced her to lose much of the season. It was the back injury that eventually forced her to retire. “I was so bad I couldn’t tie my shoes, literally. I had unbearable pains,” he would later state in People. Magazines and photo shoots Apart from a very good tennis player she was also a beautiful woman and that could not be ignored by either television or magazines. The young girl from Russia always took the look at her appearance and her photographs in top magazines in the world have passed through history. The most expensive athlete in the world employed the media and her relationships. Her personal life was once a subject of gossip to the point she stated to Sports Illustrated: “In every country I visit, I have a different friend and I kiss them all”. Enrique Iglesias was eventually her other half. The singer met in 2001 when he participated in the video clip of his song, entitled “Escape”. In 2017 they had the twins Nicholas and Lucy while in 2020 their third child, Mary, was born. 1998 will be voted by ESPN as the hottest athlete in the world while 2002 was the 100 sexiest women in the world according to the FHM. By 2008 she was the athlete with most Internet searches. Stalker In 2005, two years after her retirement, she became the target of a stalker, William Lepeska, who swam naked in Biscayne Bay Bay towards her home in Miami in hopes that she would save him from drowning but had eventually swam into the wrong house. “I was absolutely shocked and scared and worried about my safety,” said Kurnikova, who hired bodyguards and increased security at her home after the incident. “It was very scary to know there’s someone out there obsessed with you”. Kurnikova became… video game and virus on computers By the time she was voted the world’s sexiest woman from the men’s lifestyle magazine FHM in 2002, Kurnikova had already gained fame from her participation in a sports bra advertisement that had the slogan: “Only the ball must bounce”. She even inspired a computer virus, with an e-mail attachment that supposedly brought her image to spread like a fire in early 2001. Within a year of leaving, Maria Sarapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anastasia Miskina had won grand slam titles, and in the years that followed the were established in tennis. Kuznetsova, champion of the French and US Open and former No. 2 in the world, has no illusions about the magnitude of Kurnikova’s influence, insisting that her compatriot was the one who highlighted Russian tennis on the map. “It really brought great popularity to Russian tennis, women’s tennis,” Kuznetsova said in 2017. ‘Everyone was after her. I always defend her when they say, “Oh, she never won a tournament”. So what? I say, ‘ Okay, have you been to the top 10? Have you ever held a racket?” I’m always surprised people make these views up without having achieved anything in their lives.”
Anna Kurnikova: The Russian tennis goddess, love with Iglesias and the desert life in Miami
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