Personal Profile

Name : Anastasia Myskina
Birth Date : July 8, 1981
Birth Place : Moscow, Russia
Height : 5'8 1/2 (1.74 m)
Weight : 130 1/2 lbs. (59 kg)
Plays : Tennis
Pro since : 1998
Seeded : 6
Nationality : Russian 

Biography

Anastasia Myskina was born on July 8, 1981 in Moscow, Russia. She was born to Andrey and Galina. She was destined to be a tennis star. She started her career at a tender age of six years. In the Spartak club she was coached by Marat Safin's mother. But in 1994 they moved to Spain after which she started recieving training from Svitoslav Mirza. 

Although she is a good player and plays a tidy game from the back of the court and also boasts a neat touch at the net yet she is not as good as her other fellow tennis player. 

It is also time for Myskina to make an impact at Grand Slam level but her record in Paris is woeful, having never made the third round in four attempts. Anastasia turned professional in 1998, the year in which she broke into the WTA top 500. The very next year, she entered the top 100 and went on to end 2002 in the top 20 and 2003 in the top 10. On March 8, 2004, she was ranked no. 5 in the world. She has won 8 WTA tour singles titles in her career as of 2004, with the most recent being Roland Garros. She routed fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-1 in the final to become the first Russian woman to win a Grand Slam singles event.