Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Russian: Светла́на Алекса́ндровна Кузнецо́ва (help·info); born June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) is a Russian professional tennis player. She is the reigning French Open singles champion and is currently ranked World No. 3. She also won the 2004 US Open singles title and was the runner-up in singles at the 2006 French Open and the 2007 US Open, both times to Belgian player Justine Henin.
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Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Russian: Светла́на Алекса́ндровна Кузнецо́ва (help·info); born June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) is a Russian professional tennis player. She is the reigning French Open singles champion and is currently ranked World No. 3. She also won the 2004 US Open singles title and was the runner-up in singles at the 2006 French Open and the 2007 US Open, both times to Belgian player Justine Henin.
Kuznetsova was born in Leningrad. Her father, Aleksandr Kuznetsov has coached five Olympic and world cycling champions. Her father's protégés include her mother, Galina Tsareva, a six-time world champion and holder of 20 world records, and Svetlana's brother, Nikolay Kuznetsov, a silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Kuznetsova also tried out cycling in her early years, but it bored her. She focused on tennis instead and was sent to Spain when she was 13 years old for better training and coaching also leading her to speak fluent...
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