Famous Soviet tennis player and sports journalist Anna Dmitrieva died in Moscow at the age of 83. In this respect telegram channel Journalist Yuri Rost reported.
“Anna Dmitrieva, an incredibly beautiful person, passed away. My closest heart friend for many years. The emptiness is suffocating. A beautiful woman, a great tennis player, an outstanding television sports commentator and organizer of the best sports programs. Educated, subtly understanding everything, smart, patient,” wrote Rost.
“I wanted to kiss your hands”
Famous commentator Dmitry Guberniev expressed his condolences regarding the death of Dmitrieva. In a conversation with socialbites.ca, he recalled that the outstanding tennis player raised more than one generation of sports journalists.
“Every time I saw him I wanted to kiss his hands.
It has accompanied me throughout my sports life, from the moment I started watching sports, sports programs and sports broadcasts in the seventies. He was truly an icon of the commentary style, an icon of the sports reporting style. First of all, an outstanding tennis player and multiple champion of the Soviet Union. He is a student of Nikolai Ozerov in the television profession. I agree, it’s a brand. The most powerful organizer and teacher of many people. He created the editorial office, in fact, he raised Vasily Utkin. “Think about what kind of students there are,” he said.
According to Guberniev, Dmitrieva once did not take him to the editorial office of NTV-Plus, and then explained why: “This way he saved me for federal television.” The commentator described herself as a “professional mother”, emphasizing that she will always be grateful to him for the warmth that surrounds him.
“Every tennis fan in the country knows his voice.”
The Russian Tennis Federation (RFF) recalled the merits of Anna Dmitrieva not only on the courts but also in the field of commentary.
“In 1997, Anna Vladimirovna was awarded the Russian national award “Golden Microphone” as the best sports commentator on Russian television. All tennis fans in our country know his voice. Dmitrieva has been a member of the Russian Television Academy since 2004. In the same year, she was inducted into the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame.
“We express our deep condolences to Anna Dmitrieva’s family and friends and share your pain and mourning with you.” official website organizations.
Sports commentator Ilya Kazakov said that an award should be established named after Dmitrieva as well as Alexei Burkov, the director of NTV-Plus sports channels, who died in 2004 at the age of 50.
In every way, “Match” honors the traditions of the people who are our everything, both in sports and in the beginnings of television.
This is not my advice, but my desire that something emerges that will keep the memory of Dmitrieva and Burkov alive as a full-fledged award.
So much so that even after they die, these people will remain in the memory of not only those who worked with them, but also those who are accustomed to watching sports TV channels. “These are the people who invented sports television in Russia,” Kazakov said. “Championship”.
Nadezhda Petrova, bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics, former world third racket, and founder of the children’s tennis school, stated that Anna Dmitrieva made a living from tennis. According to Petrova, Dmitrieva’s role in the development of tennis in the USSR and Russia was huge.
“He lived and breathed tennis.”
“Anna Vladimirovna is a unique person; He had a great sports career. She passed on her experience and knowledge to the next generations.
He was very easy to talk to, you could turn to him for advice and he knew every tennis player and could analyze everyone’s game based on strengths and weaknesses. Of course, he played a big role in the development of our tennis. It was incredibly interesting to listen to his commentary duet with Alexander Metreveli: he revealed a lot of details about the course of the game, explained the tactical aspects of the game, told a lot of personal things about the players, because they were familiar to many people. He was one of them and knew them well.
Dmitrieva lived and breathed tennis and we will truly miss such a person.
Let’s remember his memory well,” Petrova insisted.
Anna Dmitrieva is the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in tennis and 18-time USSR champion in singles, mixed and doubles. In 1964, she ranked third in the ranking of Europe’s strongest tennis players.
He has been working as a sports commentator on television since 1975 and has been working at NTV since 1993. He served as the manager of NTV-Plus sports channels between 2004 and 2010.
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