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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Zvereva's best achievement in singles was in 1988 when, at age 17, she reached the final of the French Open.
Zvereva is one of the few players to have beaten both Graf and Monica Seles in the same Grand Slam singles tournament.
At Wimbledon in 1998, Zvereva defeated the fourth seeded Graf in the third round 6-4, 7-5 and the sixth seeded Seles in a quarterfinal 7-6(4), 6-2.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Natasha_Zvereva   (436 words)

  
 Natasha Zvereva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva (Belarusian: Натальля Зьверава, Russian: Наташа Зверева; born April 16, 1971) is a tennis player from Belarus.
Zvereva has four WTA Tour single titles and 78 (!) double titles, of them 18 are Grand Slam double titles.
As for single's best achievement, in 1988 Zvereva reached the final in French Open, where she was beaten by Steffi Graf, who was unbeatable that year, winning all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal.
www.centipedia.com /articles/Natasha_Zvereva   (207 words)

  
 1998 Chase Day 2: OnTheLine OnTheSpot
Zvereva hit a sizzling forehand pass for a 0-30 lead in the fifth game, but Tauziat won the last four points in holding for 3-2.
Zvereva gamely battled out of a 15-40 deficit in the second set's initial game, but Tauziat was unfazed, striking a 95 MPH ace to close out Game 2.
Zvereva came up with a great, off-balace backhand winner to take a 0-30 lead in the next game, but a broken string on the following point essentially finished her off.
www.tennis-ontheline.com /98/chs9802.htm   (1385 words)

  
 Natasha Zvereva Tennis Player   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tennis Corner: Natasha Zvereva (BLR) Tennis Corner: Natasha Zvereva (BLR) - Site-specific editorial/photos Copyright 1997-2004 Tennis Corner.
Natasha Zvereva at 1993 US Open Championship; Tennis; September 3 - - NATASHA ZVEREVA: I don't think by the way I played you could say that, no, I didn't think so - so I think that pretty easy way of taking tennis match.
Natasha Zvereva at The Lipton Championships'94; Tennis; March 15 - - NATASHA ZVEREVA: Geez.
www.basictennis.com /women/Natasha-Zvereva-Tennis-Player.html   (295 words)

  
 Natasha Zvereva Appreciation Society - WTAworld.com
Natasha should have won Wimbledon in 1998, that would have been the greatest fairystory of all time.
I read an interview with her once where she said that she was born in the wrong time because she wanted to be a hippy in the sixties.
Natasha Zvereva knows she could have been a singles champion.
www.wtaworld.com /showthread.php?t=8381   (2446 words)

  
 Pacific Life Open
Natasha, there was a ball, it was wide and long.
NATASHA ZVEREVA: To me it's a great sign to get nervous, because it means you feel something.
NATASHA ZVEREVA: I got nervous when I was first driving here, parking.
www.pacificlifeopen.com /4/players/interviews/2002/interview619_rx.asp   (1694 words)

  
 Tennis Hall of Shame: The Zvereva Award
Natasha Zvereva didn't have, I thought, a particularly unpronounceable name.
So: the Zvereva Award to the player with the name the most commentators manage to mangle.
Matevzic was probably last year's winner (or woulc have been): for some reason Eurosport kept calling her Mateyevich.
www.pelicancrossing.net /thos/2006/05/the_zvereva_award.html   (181 words)

  
 SNS Online - Sports - Graf dealt Wimbledon setback 6/27/98
Blessed with talent and athleticism, Zvereva is famous for letting her mind and game wander in matches.
Zvereva won the toss and elected to receive, a wise choice since Graf obviously wasn't quite loose yet.
Zvereva broke Graf right away and held serve throughout the rest of the set as Graf sprayed returns long, wide and into the net.
www.news-star.com /stories/062798/spo_tennis.html   (876 words)

  
 Natasha Zvereva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva (Belarusian; born April 16, 1971) is a tennis player from Belarus.
She was a girl's US Open champion in 1987 beating Sandra Birch 6-0, 6-3 in the finals.
As for single's best achievement, in 1988 Zvereva reached the final in French Open, where she was beaten (0-6,0-6) by Steffi Graf who was unbeatable that year, winning all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal.
www.basictennis.com /natasha-zvereva.html   (195 words)

  
 Zvereva Shows She Can Still Beat the Odds
Zvereva was essentially telling Soviet officials that she was fed up, that she would fight the system and do everything possible to keep her hard-earned money.
Before this Wimbledon even started, Seles said, ``Natasha has the best hands in the game.'' Fellow players were shocked when she knocked off Steffi Graf in the third round, but only because she had kept up her concentration for an entire match.
Zvereva, addressing the media in her accent-free English, said she had surprised herself -- ``big-time.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/07/02/SP8398.DTL   (1038 words)

  
 Gigi Fernandez
Gigi along side Natasha Zvereva, have won the French Open five times, Wimbledon and the US Open three times and the Australian Open twice.
Fernandez and Zvereva won the US Open, the tournament which has stopped them from winning the Grand Slam two years in a row, 1993 and 1994.
Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva made the four finals of the slams, the first time they have ever done that.
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 WashingtonPost.com: Fernandez, Zvereva Win Doubles
Fernandez and Zvereva won the French Open four years in a row, until they were beaten by Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport in last year's final.
She and Zvereva teamed up again only recently, after playing with different partners at the start of the year.
Zvereva made her ninth straight appearance in the championship match, a streak that goes back to 1989.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/tennis/longterm/1997/french/doubles9.htm   (218 words)

  
 No Grand Slam in Doubles
EW YORK -- An upset, an end to one career and another player's unsuccessful bid to win four Grand Slam titles in a year -- all this was all rolled into one in the women's doubles final at the U.S. Open Saturday.
Not only were top-seeded Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva, the defending champions of the event, upset by third-seeded Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotna, 6-3, 6-4, but Fernandez, 33, also announced her retirement after 15 years on the tour.
Though the duo broke up before the 1997 Australian Open, where Zvereva teamed with Martina Hingis for the title, they decided to finish the remainder of the slam season, and Fernandez's career, together.
partners.nytimes.com /library/sports/090797ten-us-open-doubles.html   (175 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Wimbledon '98 - Graf suffers stunning Wimbledon loss to Zvereva - Friday June 26, 1998 01:37 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Zvereva, a doubles specialist who had won only three sets against Graf in all their previous meetings, beat the fourth-seeded German 6-4, 7-5 in a third-round match.
Their first match was the most memorable, when Graf humiliated Zvereva 6-0, 6-0 in just over 30 minutes in the 1988 French Open final.
With Zvereva serving for the match, Graf failed to convert two break points at 15-40 and the match ended with a backhand return into the net.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /tennis/1998/wimbledon/news/1998/06/26/graf_update   (975 words)

  
 Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
In 1997, Fernandez and teammate Natasha Zvereva won their fourth Wimbledon doubles title (1992, 1993 and 1994), and with that win, Fernandez earned her 17th Grand Slam doubles title.
Fernandez was the recipient of the COREL WTA TOUR Doubles Team of the Year Award with partner Natasha Zvereva 1993-95, and she also won the award with partner Jana Novotna in 1991.
Fernandez was named the 1994 Female Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Tennis Association and the U.S. Olympic Committee after an outstanding year in 1993 in which she won doubles titles at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.
www.womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/iowa/athletes/record.html?record=890   (274 words)

  
 Biography of Natasha Zvereva -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva (Belarusian languageBelarusian: Натальл& #1103; Зьверав& #1072;, Russian languageRussian: Наташа Зверева; born April 16, 1971) is a tennis player from Belarus.
Zvereva has four Women's Tennis AssociationWTA Tour single titles and 78 (!) double titles, of them 18 are Grand Slam double titles.
In doubles Zvereva is a five times Wimbledon ChampionshipsWimbledon champion, four times US Open (tennis)US Open champion, five times French Open champion, and four times Australian Open champion.
www.short-biographies.com /biographies/NatashaZvereva.html   (345 words)

  
 NewStandard: 7/3/98
Despite Natasha Zvereva's loss to Nathalie Tauziat in yesterday's semifinals, Zvereva leaves Wimbledon with wins over Steffi Graf and Monica Seles -- only the second player to beat the two former No. 1s in the same event.
It was also Zvereva's first Grand Slam semifinal in 10 years.
Natasha Zvereva was attempting to become the first unseeded woman to make the final since Billie Jean King in 1963.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-98/07-03-98/d04sp163.htm   (618 words)

  
 @marillo Globe-News: Sports: Graf's last? 6/27/98
Steffi Graf puts her hand to her head during her women's singles match against Natasha Zvereva of Belarussia, on the Centre Court, at Wimbledon Friday June 26 1998.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Steffi Graf cracked the thinnest of smiles and shed no tears, though the hurt was plain on her face as she weighed whether her loss Friday - the first in 18 matches against Natasha Zvereva - marked the end of her luminous Wimbledon career.
Graf will turn 30 a couple of weeks before Wimbledon next year, a time in life to consider whether she wants to start a family.
www.amarillo.com /stories/062798/spo_LS0485.shtml   (1060 words)

  
 Asia Observer - web directory and search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Natasha Zvereva - Fan page with results and pictures.
Natasha Zvereva - Includes biography, news, pictures, interviews, tournament reports, fan encounters, videos, message board, and chat.
Natasha Zvereva House of Information - Fan page with pictures and results.
www.asiaobserver.com /cgi-local/anacondaodpp.pl?passurl=/Sports/Tennis/Players/Female/Zvereva,_Natasha   (113 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Tennis - Zvereva nets Eastbourne crown with late surge - Saturday June 19, 1999 12:49 PM
Posted: Saturday June 19, 1999 12:49 PM Zvereva waited nine games before pouring it on to beat Nathalie Tauziat 0-6, 7-5, 6-3 for the Eastbourne grass-court championship.
EASTBOURNE, England (AP) -- Natasha Zvereva lost the first nine games before scoring a 0-6, 7-5, 6-3 win over Nathalie Tauziat on Saturday to win the Eastbourne grass-court championship.
In the semifinals she had staged another comeback, saving three match points against Amanda Coetzer in the longest match on the WTA Tour this season while Tauziat came back from 5-1 down in the third to beat Anna Kournikova.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /tennis/news/1999/06/19/zvereva_eastbourne   (295 words)

  
 Natasha Zvereva Appreciation Society - Page 3 - WTAworld.com
Wimbledon officials have launched an investigation after Natasha Zvereva appeared to make an obscene gesture.
As the four walked off the court however, 29-year-old Zvereva was pictured holding both her arms in the air and with the middle finger of both hands raised.
The match umpire, Ted Watts, is understood not to have reported the two-fingered salute but the Lawn Tennis Association said the championship referee Allan Mills would be speaking to him on Saturday.
www.wtaworld.com /showthread.php?t=8381&page=3   (875 words)

  
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The Czech-born US citizen came out of retirement in 2000 to play doubles and last month won the doubles title with Natasha Zvereva at the Madrid Open.
"She said that I was playing well enough to play singles, and that if Natasha Zvereva and I won Madrid then I had to play singles.
She is entered in doubles only at Wimbledon with Zvereva.
www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/06/19/1023864454079.html   (522 words)

  
 Natasha Zvereva Message Board - A Bravenet.com Forum
Nat changed her name from Natalia to Natasha because she liked it better.
She had always been called Natasha anyway, so it seemed logical to make it official.
In Russia, Natasha is the most common nickname for girls called Natalia.
pub27.bravenet.com /forum/2258208490/fetch/68540   (134 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Hingis-Kournikova Win Australian Open Doubles
Zvereva congratulated Kournikova on her breakthrough Slam victory.
Hingis said she was likely to play with Novotna at the next three Slams.
Davenport and Zvereva took a 5-3 lead in the first set by breaking Kournikova's suspect service.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/tennis/longterm/1999/ausopen/articles/doubles29.htm   (344 words)

  
 InfoDense - Web - Zvereva Natasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Natasha Zvereva Online: website dedicated to the coolest player on the WTA tour.
Natasha Zvereva Fan Community - The place to be for Natasha Zvereva fans!
Links to Natasha Zvereva's picture galleries, wallpapers and other related information.
www.infodense.com /topic?i=Zvereva%20Natasha   (172 words)

  
 Quarter finals for the Spice Girls - Anna Kournikova News
Anna Kournikova and Martina Hingis today won through to the quarter finals of the women's doubles in the US Open with a hard fought victory over Chanda Rubin and Natasha Zvereva.
Anna has unfortunately been making the headlines for the wrong reasons after her much publicised appearance at the VMA music awards in New York a few days ago, but thankfully she was back where true tennis fans want to see her and that is on court winning matches.
Natasha's partner was Chanda Rubin who of course Anna successfully played with at Wimbledon only a few short months ago, when they also reached the semi finals.
blogs.tennisuniverse.com /annak/News/859   (374 words)

  
 1995 Australian Open Jan 24 Courtside Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first of these to be played on the Centre Court was that of Natasha Zvereva, seeded 8th, versus the fourth seed, Mary Pierce.
In a sometimes amusing match in that, when Zvereva was well behind in the second set, Natasha started to mock how Mary Pierce walked around the court.
Pierce's serving stats show that her first serve was going in 90% of the time of which she was winning 88% of them.
www.tennisserver.com /news_archive/news_1995/ausopen95/aus95_1_24.html   (559 words)

  
 The whatUseek Directory - Zvereva,_Natasha
Natasha Zvereva Online - Includes biography, news, pictures, interviews, tournament reports, fan encounters, videos, message board, and chat.
Natasha Zvereva's House of Useful Information - Fan page with pictures and results.
Natasha Zvereva's Net Zone - Fan page with statistics and news.
dir.whatuseek.com /Sports/Tennis/Players/Female/Zvereva,_Natasha   (84 words)

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