Anastasia Myskina is a famous Russian tennis player who, after finishing her successful career, became the coach of the Russian national team. What is interesting about her biography and the personal life of an athlete?
Biography of Myskina
The future tennis player was born on July 8, 1981 in Moscow. Her parents always spent their free time actively, so the girl immediately began to play sports. The whole family regularly visited the tennis courts for good leisure. Anastasia immediately began to show great hopes, and her parents took her to the sports society "Spartak".
Myskina's first coach was Marat Safin's mother Rauza Islanova. She instilled in the girl the ability to never give up and play matches to the end. At this time, Anastasia met and made friends with another young athlete Elena Dementieva. Even face-to-face fights on the court never interfered with their friendship.
After graduating from high school in 1998, Myskina was invited to the Russian national team. The following season, she wins her first tournament win. But he does not receive recognition from specialists. Other Russian tennis players outshine Anastasia in popularity.
The girl continues to train hard and after four years is among the top ten in this sport worldwide.
Anastasia considers 2004 to be the best season of her career. And there are certain reasons for this. Myskina wins the first Grand Slam tournament - the French Open. And before her, such a title had never been submitted to tennis players from Russia. She also won several tournaments, including the Kremlin Cup. In all the main finals of that season, Anastasia defeated her longtime friend Elena Dementieva. For her successes, Myskina received the title of world champion according to the International Tennis Federation.
However, the following year, everything changed. Myskina stopped participating in many competitions due to her mother's illness, and then completely refused to participate in matches for the Russian national team. And in 2007 she officially announced the end of her sports career.
After that, the girl was invited to work on television. At first it was the Our Football channel. Further, the former tennis player took part in the next season of Ice Dancing and hosted a program on the Domashny channel "Tell me what's wrong?" And then she was invited to work as a commentator on the NTV Plus Tennis channel.
When the Russian Tennis Federation was looking for a coach for the country's main team, they remembered Myskina. She entered the coaching staff, and in 2014 became the team captain.
Personal life of Myskina
The beautiful athlete has always been attracted by strong and strong-willed hockey players. So Anastasia had a relationship with Ak Bars player Alexander Stepanov and CSKA captain Konstantin Korneev. With the latter, they even wanted to get married. But in the end, businessman Sergei Mamedov became Myskina's husband. The happy spouses had three children.
But in 2017, Anastasia and Sergey decided to leave and filed for divorce. At the same time, they remain friends and raise their sons together.
