Women's Tennis
Bronze	1992	Doubles

Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva (Belarusian: Натальля Зьверава, Russian: Наташа Зверева; born April 16, 1971) is a tennis player from Belarus. Subject: The Olympic Rings. ... Tennis ball This article is about the sport. ... The Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Tennis ball This article is about the sport. ...

A Belarusian tennis star, she dominated doubles tennis tournaments in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. She won the US Open girls' championship in 1987 beating Sandra Birch 6-0, 6-3 in the finals. After turning pro Zvereva won four WTA Tour singles titles and 79 WTA Tour doubles titles. Eighteen of them are Grand Slam doubles titles. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... For other uses of the initials WTA, see WTA The Womens Tennis Association, is also known as the WTA Tour, and is to womens tennis what the ATP is to mens tennis. ... In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open US Open Wimbledon These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ...

In doubles Zvereva is a five times Wimbledon champion, four times US Open champion, five times French Open champion, and four times Australian Open champion. Wimbledon logo Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... The U.S. Open is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam in tennis. ... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ... This article is about the Australian Open tennis tournament. ...

She won those Grand Slam titles with four different partners (Gigi Fernandez, Martina Hingis, Pam Shriver and Larissa Neiland-Savchenko). Beatriz Fernández (born 1966), better known as Gigi Fernández, is a Puerto Rican former tennis player. ... Country: Switzerland Residence: Trubbach, SUI, Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA Height: 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) Weight: 130 lb (59 kg) Plays: Right Racket: Yonex NanoSpeed RQ 7 Shoes: adidas ClimaCool Feather II Turned pro: 1994 Retired: (2002) Comeback in 2005 Highest singles ranking: 1 (March 31, 1997) Singles titles... Pam Shriver (born July 4, 1962, in Baltimore, Maryland), is a former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster from the United States. ... Larisa Neiland (born August 21, 1966) is a Ukranian born tennis player who now plays for Latvia. ...

As for her best achievement in singles, in 1988 Zvereva reached the final of the French Open, where she was beaten (0-6, 0-6) by Steffi Graf, who went on to win all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal that year. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ... Stefanie Maria (Steffi) Graf (born June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former World No. ...

In addition, Zvereva twice won mixed doubles titles at the Australian Open. In 1992, she won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the doubles event (with Leila Meskhi, representing the CIS). This article is about the Australian Open tennis tournament. ... The Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Flag of the CIS The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (in Russian: Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ) - Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv) is a confederation, or alliance, consisting of 11 former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. ...

Facts

• Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.74 m)
• Weight: 138 lb (62 kg)
• Plays: right
• Birthplace: Minsk, Belarus
• Resides: Newport Beach, Florida, USA
• Turned pro: 1988

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External links

• Zvereva's profile at usopen.org
• WTA Tour profile for Natasha Zvereva
• Zvereva fined during Wimbledon 2000 for making obscene gestures at Williams sisters after they beat her in the Women's doubles semi-finals