Svetlana Kuznetsova: tennis, family, personal life, hobbies

Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna - an outstanding tennis player, winner of several competitions of the Grand Slam series. He is an Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

Svetlana Kuznetsova: Biography

The future champion was born June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg in the family of athletes. From childhood Svetlana instilled love for a healthy lifestyle. Every morning for the family began with a joint charge, walks in the fresh air.

Svetlana Kuznetsova started seriously taking care of sports? Tennis was for her part of life at the age of seventeen. Being on the court, the girl was really delighted. Such feelings she managed to preserve and in adulthood.

The first serious victory came to Svetlana in 2001, when the athlete received professional status at the age of 16. In the debut season she managed to win the ITF honorary tournament. In 2004, the athlete reached the final stage of the US Open and won the competition. But the unexpected success was only the beginning. After all, now the tennis player understood that new achievements will require her to work even harder in training and increased dedication.

Victory and rewards of Svetlana

Kuznetsova Svetlana Alexandrovna more often than other domestic tennis players was in the final duels of the series of Grand Slam tournaments. Up to such high stages of competitions the sportswoman reached 6 times in paired competitions and 4 times in a single category.

As mentioned above, Svetlana is the winner of the US Open. In 2004, in the final contest Kuznetsova won the other Russian athlete Elena Dementieva. The next final, in which the tennis player once again met with compatriot, took place at the tournament "Roland Garros" in 2009, where the sportswoman defeated Dinara Safin.

What other achievements did Svetlana Kuznetsova secure? Tennis allowed her as many as 30 times to play in the title matches of the biggest world tournaments. To date, the athlete shares the first position in the ranking of Russian athletes according to the number of finals, along with Marat Safin and Maria Sharapova.

Svetlana Kuznetsova (tennis player): personal life and hobbies

Outside the tennis court, the Russian athlete tries to lead an ordinary life. Svetlana is a hardcore football fan. The greatest pleasure comes to her visiting matches favorite team - St. Petersburg "Zenith". He follows the successes of Kuznetsov's club and in breaks between appearances at world tennis tournaments.

Another weakness of Svetlana is snowboarding. In addition, in free from training time tennis player likes to dance to modern music, to study foreign languages.

The search for a life partner for today is not the most important task that Svetlana Kuznetsova sets herself. Tennis at the moment is a priority for the sportswoman, as the Russian champion herself has repeatedly stated.

A family

In her youth Svetlana's father was engaged in cycling, and now participates in the preparation of young athletes for serious start in this discipline.

Mother tennis player repeatedly won gold awards in all the same cycling, in particular, 6 times she won at the world championships. He has the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Today he is a coach in one of the sports schools in St. Petersburg.

Brother Svetlana Kuznetsova is vice-champion of the Olympics in Atlanta, where at one time he obtained prestigious awards in the races of the Russian national team on the cycle track.

The newest achievements of the sportswoman

What success can Svetlana Kuznetsova boast of today? Tennis continues to be for her a matter of all life.

In 2015, in a duel against Italian Francesca Schiavone at the Grand Slam tournament in France, the athlete played the longest match in her career, setting a record. At the end of the meeting, the Russian lost to her opponent, and the total time spent by tennis players on the court was 3 hours and 50 minutes.

In the same season 2015/2016 Svetlana Kuznetsova recorded another champion title at the Kremlin Cup tournament. In the final game, the champion defeated another Russian woman Anastasia Pavlyuchenkov. The meeting ended in two sets, the draw of which was spent only 1 hour and 18 minutes.

The latest achievement in the newest career of Svetlana is the victory in the series of competitions "Premier", which took place in Sydney this year. On the way to the title Kuznetsova went around the grid of such rating sportswomen as Simon Halep, Sabina Lisicki and Sarah Errani. In the final meeting of the tournament, Svetlana defeated the tennis player from Puerto Rico Monica Puig. Thus, the Russian athlete won her 16th career title.