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Max Mirnyi

Max Mirnyi

Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus. Today he is a doubles specialist but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for 7 straight years as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a record of 47 wins and 27 losses in 35 times played. He holds seven Grand Slam titles: men's doubles in the 2000 and 2002 US Open and 2005 and 2006 French Open; and mixed doubles in the 1998 and 2007 U.S.

 
 
Elena Dementieva

Elena Dementieva

Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva (born 15 October 1981) is a Russian professional tennis player, who has won two Olympic medals in singles, including the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Her performance at the Olympics is the strongest of any competitor in recent times, with an 11–2 record. She has also reached the finals of two Grand Slam events. Her career high ranking was World No. 3 which she achieved on April 6, 2009. As of 21 September 2009, she is ranked World No. 4.

 
 
Svetlana Kuznetsova

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg is a Russian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 6. She won the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open singles titles and was the runner-up in singles at the 2006 French Open and the 2007 US Open.

 
 
Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a former World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player and three time Grand Slam singles champion. As of September 14, 2009, she is ranked World No. 27. When Sharapova was seven, she and her father moved from their life of poverty in Russia to the United States, to enroll in the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy.

 
 
Dmitry Tursunov

Dmitry Tursunov

Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he moved to live in the United States, where he has lived ever since, to further his prospects of becoming a professional player. Tursunov is an offensive baseliner with excellent groundstrokes from both sides, and prefers to play on faster surfaces; he jokes about his lack of ability and success on clay courts. He is sponsored by Fila and Wilson.

 
 
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Larisa Neiland

Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a retired Ukrainian-born tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.