15 sexiest photos of Anna Kournikova

Does anyone remember Anna Kournikova? Of course, yes, how could it be otherwise? Although those under twenty may not remember. Well, no big deal: now we will refresh your memory. Do not be surprised at our desire to do this, you will immediately understand everything when you see the photos.

It's just that Anna Kournikova is one of the 10 most attractive tennis players of all time.

There are many wonderful tennis players. The Argentine beauty Gabriella Sabatini and the Russian Maria Sharapova immediately come to mind. But none of them even came close to being the most attractive athlete to ever play tennis.

Anna was born on June 7, 1981, and at the age of five, her father gave her the first tennis racket. She trained a couple of times a week because her parents wanted her daughter to do something active. When it became clear that Anna had abilities, she was sent to a professional academy. She was seven years old.

After moving to Florida at age 14, she made her professional tennis debut in the Fed Cup for Russia and became the youngest player ever to compete and win a competition. In 1995, she began playing professionally and the following year took part for the first time in the Grand Slam tournament - the 1996 US Open - losing in the fourth round to Stefi Graf, who eventually became the winner of the tournament. Anna was only 15 at that time, but it was then that the audience noticed how beautiful she was, and the legend about Anna Kournikova was born.

Unfortunately, her professional tennis career ended in 2003, at an already mature age - 21 years old - due to chronic problems with the lower back and a herniated disc, but this did not affect her popularity, and she continued to be an athlete, requests for which appeared most frequently on the Internet during 2008. She is still often in public, continues her modeling career, appears on television and participates in other events.

Let's now take a look at 15 photos of someone who is known as the most attractive tennis player ever to hit the court and is still one of the world's top models. It is worth noting that Anna is one of the 12 sexiest Russian models of all time.

15. Sports Illustrated Magazine

If you hit the cover "Sports Illustrated"- consider that you have achieved success. Typically, models are on the cover, not athletes, but Anna is a rare case of combining both, so it's fair enough that she became the cover girl in 2004.

In fact, Anna's photographs have been on the covers of almost every popular magazine you can think of, including those for women.Sports Illustrated”Means that you are either at the very top of success, or just on the way to achieving it. For Anna, it was just an ordinary shoot.

14. Sexy and generous

Despite the fact that Anna stopped playing professionally in 2003, she continues to participate in many exhibition matches and charity events. Tennis will forever remain her first love, and she often claims that if it weren't for her health problems, she would have returned to competing again. Of course, today her best years in tennis are over, but she gladly takes every chance to enter the court, especially if there is a good reason for this.

Since her retirement from professional sports, Anna has taken part in countless charity events, often alongside other celebrities such as Elton John, John McEnroe, Serena Williams and many more. She assists both the Indian Ocean Tsunami Aid Foundation and Children's Hospitals and the AIDS Foundation. She even participates in charity races and triathlon. Anna is still active, in good shape and very attractive.

13. Nice in a sports bra

Australian company Berlei specializes in the production of women's underwear. And who would be better than Anna Kournikova to represent their sports bras?

The company's website is full of photos of Anna in sportswear and casual clothes they made. There are so many cool photos out there that you don't know which one is the best. You can watch them for hours and literally not notice how much time has passed - like in a casino at a gambling table, when you forget it's time to leave. It's great that Anna does not leave us and that you can look at the photos even all day long.

12. Pretty woman in all white

Although Anna did not win a WTA singles tournament, she came very close in 1997 at Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis competition in the world. Wikipedia says Kournikova became the second woman in the Open Age of tennis to advance to the semi-finals immediately after making her Wimbledon debut. She is still the youngest athlete (she was 15) ever to reach the semi-finals of this tournament. Kournikova lost to future champion Martina Hingis, who a few years later became her partner in the doubles game.

For? who is as good as Kournikova, victories or defeats do not matter much, at least from our point of view. Despite Anna's young age, even then, almost the entire planet - from teenagers to serious companies - understood that she was special. At the age of 15, she could already turn her head, and it's not just about what hopes she showed in tennis.

11. Beauty "Jezebel"

We tried to find as many wonderful photos for which Anna posed as possible. Another super sexy shoot was done for a popular women's magazine, blog, and website known as Jezebel... It doesn't matter if you've heard of it or not; what matters is how stunning Kournikova looks in the pictures.

It was very difficult to choose any one photo, but we did everything we could, and we highly recommend that you look for others, not only for Jezebel, but also for other magazines and Internet resources mentioned in our article. You will have a good time. It is hard to believe that there are those who have never heard of Anna Kournikova, because her photo is almost everywhere.

10. Hot stuff in leather

Studio Celebrity Leather Fashions known for photography under the motto "sexy celebrities wear leather". In 2013, Anna participated in their photo shoot and in these pictures she really looks like a hot thing.

We are used to photographs of Kournikova in swimsuits, in what is traditionally worn by models (whatever it is called) and in sportswear, as in those pictures where she plays tennis. But this time Anna appears before us in a completely different light.

In these photos, the tennis star is wearing a mix of leather and cowboy-style clothing. The result is incredibly appealing. The man who offered Anna this shoot and created the image of a ranch girl in downtown Kansas for her - our applause for you. The photos turned out to be better than one could imagine. Great job, Leather fashions.

9. Parisian pleasures

As already mentioned, Anna did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament, or at least WTA tournaments, but, as Wikipedia says, in 1998 at the French Open, she showed the best results, reaching the fourth round, before losing to Yana Novotna. Then she first reached the Grand Slam semifinals in doubles with Neiland, losing to Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva.

Kournikova has always attracted attention, which is not surprising, especially in the city - the center of the fashion and model industry. The results of the game were secondary for the audience, who was more important to see the world famous star. The audience loved Anna and followed her everywhere. It didn't matter whether it was victory or defeat - there was always a crowd nearby, wanting to watch the games live.

8. Gorgeous in a swimsuit

If you think that the photos of Anna - the model and the tennis player - are stunningly hot, then her pictures in a swimsuit will simply knock you off your feet. Kournikova took part in endless photo shoots, starring in a bikini and showing off a fantastic full-body figure.

There are many photos where she is on vacation, often on her favorite beach, or walking in the vicinity of Miami, where she now lives. In her biography from IMDb, she says: “I am like a menu in an expensive restaurant: you can look at me, but you cannot afford me". Valuable information for those who try to approach her with an offer to invite her for a drink. A bottle of the most expensive champagne will probably not work anyway, but at least this is a chance to meet her in person. Already good luck.

7. Anna conquers New York

In the United States, as elsewhere, Anna has become a cult center for fans. The paparazzi followed her every move in "Big apple". As in Paris, in this big city, Anna was in the spotlight - and shone even more than on the tennis court. But is it really important?

Wikipedia states that at the 1998 US Open, Kournikova reached the fourth round before losing to Arante Sanchez Vicario. A successful year gave her the opportunity to advance to the final 1998 WTA tournament, but she lost to Monica Seles in the first round. However, together with Seles in Tokyo, Anna won her first WTA doubles tournament, defeating Mary Joe Fernandez and Aranta Sanchez Vicario in the final.

6. Reality TV star

In October 2010, Kournikova made her debut in the reality show "The biggest loser or person who lost the most weight", Where she helped the participants lose kilograms by playing tennis. In May 2011, she rejoined the show as the full-time Featured Trainer for the twelfth season. But in season 13, Anna no longer participated: many felt that she was not suitable for this show.

Of course, it is difficult to be an aspiring presenter, especially without experience in reality TV. But you can imagineb: Anna is your personal trainer? Her presence alone would have been enough for many to budge and lose a couple of kilograms. There must have been a lot of people who wanted to be on the show that season.

5. Personal life

For those still hoping to strike up a relationship with the former tennis sensation, we regret to report that the chances of winning her heart are almost nil. After romance with NHL stars Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Bure, the supermodel decided to leave dreams of romantic love with a compatriot and drew attention to the popular Latin American singer Enrique Iglesias.

The couple began dating in 2001, after Anna appeared in one of Enrique's music videos, and they are still together. And there are many rumors on the Internet about their official status. Anna is quite secretive when it comes to her personal life. This seems to be the only thing that confuses her. Wikipedia claims that Kournikova has consistently refused to confirm or deny the status of her personal relationship. In June 2008 "Daily star”Quoted Iglesias as saying that they got married the previous year and subsequently separated. The couple have invested $ 20 million to build a home on a private island in Miami.

4. Esquire Magazine

For the first time, Anna starred for the magazine "Esquire"In July 2000, when she became the cover girl for a fantastically hot shoot. Kournikova possessed an innate talent, beauty and, from her youth, knowledge of how to behave in front of the camera. In the end, she herself said: “I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous". Yes, Anna, we agree.

«Esquire"Has become another flagship magazine that Anna has added to a long list of those she has worked with as a model - in her prime, when there is still much to come and other major magazines dream of working with her. In truth, even now at 35, she looks no older than her twenties.

3. Finally a champion

Well, Anna never became the singles champion. But she can still boast of being a leading player when she became the eighth racket in the world in 2000. Being in the top ten is already an achievement for any professional player, but the greatest success came to Kournikova in doubles.

Anna became a two-time Grand Slam champion, both times at the Australian Open paired with Martina Hingis from 1999 and 2002. Kournikova was a very successful professional doubles player and won 16 doubles events, including the aforementioned tournaments in Australia, became a mixed doubles finalist at the US Open and Wimbledon, and made it to the first line of the WTA standings.

2. Baby for "Maxim"

Like almost the whole world, the magazine “Maxim»Loves Anna Kournikova. In fact, they admire her so much that they put her on the 29th line of their "hot hundreds" in 2005. And the IMDb website says that in 2011 it became the nineteenth in the rating “Maxim» «hot hundred women».

Of course, Anna is used to such attention and honors. Magazine "People”Even named her one of the fifty most beautiful people on the planet in 1998, and this title was one of many in her brilliant career as a model, which is not going to end.

Photoshoot and covers with Anna, made for “Maxim"Have become legendary. You can easily find them: they are everywhere on the Internet.

1. Magazine "FHM"

When it comes to awards, Anna is not just a favorite of FHM, she is a legend. The Russian sensation has an impressive list of awards from this magazine alone.

In May 2002, she was named "The Sexiest Woman in the World" in the American, Australian and British versions of FHM. She was named "the sexiest woman in the world among the 100 sexiest girls in the pool of the American version of FHM in 2002." In the 2004 vote, she was number 9 on FHM's Top 100 Sexiest Women. She was also awarded 62nd place in the 2005 100 Sexiest Women in the World by FHM.

Anna and FHM have a long-standing partnership, and like a good wine, Anna only gets better with age. So, fortunately, we will admire her for a long time.