Twenty years after the Russian broke into the top 10 her influence on women's tennis is still being felt and the sport would have suffered without her "You lost here today, sum up your day at Wimbledon," asked a stuttering voice from behind the BBC camera. A few hours earlier, Anna Kournikova had fallen in the first round of Wimbledon in 2002. She was ranked 55, her career plunging in a spiral as the media lapped up her losses. What followed was a painful, infamous interview. As Kournikova rolle...
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The Guardian - 26 Mar 2020 21:00
Twenty years after the Russian broke into the top 10 her influence on women's tennis is still being felt and the sport would have suffered without her "You lost here today, sum up your day at Wimbledon," asked a stuttering voice from behind the BBC camera. A few hours earlier, Anna Kournikova had fallen in the first round of Wimbledon in 2002. She was ranked 55, her career plunging in a spiral as the media lapped up her losses. What followed was a painful, infamous interview. As Kournikova rolle...
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