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Natasha Zvereva

Height:5-foot-8
Weight:138		Plays:Right-handed
Career Titles:3		Birthplace:Minsk, USSR
Birthdate:April 16, 1971


Career Highlights

1999

  • Made the semifinals of the Evert Cup before losing to Serena Williams 7-5, 6-0.

    1998

  • Her ranking returned to the world's Top 15 for the first time in two years and she qualified for the season-ending Chase Championships in singles as one of the year's top 16 players for the first time in three years. Won the Chase Championships doubles title for the third time.
  • Unseeded at Wimbledon, defeated fourth seed Steffi Graf for the first time in 18 tries and sixth seed Monica Seles en route to her first semifinal there.
  • Earned second win over a Top 10 player, defeating No. 10 Irina Spirlea to reach the quarterfinals at Indian Wells. Had upset world No. 4 Amanda Coetzer at Sydney. Third win over a Top 10 player came in Eastbourne, where she upset No. 6 Venus Williams and continued on to reach the semifinals.
  • Reached third consecutive semifinal at Prague.
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    Personal

    Father, Marat, plays and teaches tennis; mother, Nina, is a housewife; has older an brother, Yaroslav...Enjoys watching water polo and playing table tennis...Favorite movies are Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Fargo and This Boys Life; favorite author is Feodor Dostoevski...Favorite cuisines are her moms, Japanese, Russian and Indian...Good cook according to her roommate and some stray dogs in the area, she claims...Has an outgoing and easy personality but says its wise to keep your distance at all meal times...States her goal is to become the best farmer in Minsk province, and in fact picked all of her mothers apples in 1999...Likes listening to music (especially Lep Zeppelin, soul and blues), watching X-Files episodes with her farmer friends and reading.

    Career Highlights

    SINGLES
    Winner (4): 1999 - Eastbourne; 1994 - Chicago; 1990 - Brisbane, Sydney.
    Finalist (15): 1995 - Indian Wells; 1994 - Miami, Hilton Head, Zurich; 1993 - Filderstadt; 1991 - Birmingham; 1989 - Hilton Head, Moscow; 1988 - Roland Garros, Eastbourne, Montreal, Worce

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    Natasha Zvereva

    TENNIS PLAYER

    1971 - Today

    Natasha Zvereva

    Natalya "Natasha" Maratovna Zvereva (born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. She was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings. Read more on Wikipedia

    Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Natasha Zvereva has received more than 403,228 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Natasha Zvereva is the 206th most popular tennis player (up from 218th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 152nd in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Tennis Player.

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    • 54.82

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    • 39

      Languages Editions (L)

    • 7.54

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    • 2.90

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    Among TENNIS PLAYERS

    Among tennis players, Natasha Zvereva ranks 206 out of 1,569. Before her are Françoise Dürr, Dorothy Holman, Anders Järryd, Ba

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