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 CRITICS
"No thank you. I want to be a
winner" - Thirtheen year-old phenom Maria Sharapova's response after
being called "Kourni-clona" by an HBO reporter.
"She'd rather entertain than
win. She loves the applause; she is the queen", ex-coach Eric Van Harpen
"She's a born diva", Jim
Courrier
"It's quite amazing to stand on
the court with her and see so many guys going nuts" - mixed doubles
partner, Jonas Bjorkman
"There's an aura around her.
The way she acts, talks and walks, the whole appearance. And beleive me, it was
there when she was 11 years old." - Claud Martens, an Adidas
representative
"She knew who she was and she
wanted all the attention" previous coach Nick Bollitieri
"Let's be frank, she was not
overpolite" - previous coach Nick Bollitieri
"Where Anna Kournikova comes
up, lights go on, hearts run over,
thoughts become weak." GQ magazine quote
"I hate women tennis. But I
could watch Anna for two hours even playing shuttlecock." - Richard
Kraijeck
"A learning
experience that's for sure. Sometimes not very fun but it is what it is." -
Sergei Federov (when asked how going out with Anna was)
"Anna has 2
cellular phones..one per boyfriend" - Nathalie Tauziat
"I can speak without
jealousy or nastiness, because I like her. She is fun and rather nice, even if
she unfortunately does not show respect to everyone. In my opinion, she's
already had enough of being worshiped. Enough of always being told that she's
the prettiest, the best this, the best that. Even if she plays up her charm and
her physical attributes, the dream of her life is to play tennis. It's her
passion. A true one. What she wants is to finally win a tournament and be
recognized for that, or play in a Grand Slam final, and it's for that reason I
like her a lot. In the end, we've arrived at an absurd situation where she has
become the victim of a system that she herself has helped develop more or less
willingly." - Nathalie Tauziat
-"it's bad enough to
enough to default in the first round, but it's the worst thing to default to
Kournikova" Lindsay Davenport
"We won't do anything
naked" Alla (Anna's mother)
"Female tennis stars are not supposed
to be this beautiful.." The Times
Magzine
"She is the perfect Californian dream
girl: creamy, flawless skin, steel-blue eyes, pronounced cheekbones, and most
important of all, that mass of pale golden hair which she likes to wear in
pigtails." The Times Magzine
"She didn't win Wimbledon but Anna
Kournikova certainly won the battle of the front pages" - The
Times Magzine
"Anna will be back"- Martina
Hingis
"I hate playing her. And I don't play
if I'm on the court against her. It's her person and everything around
her...It's not her game"-Patty
Schnyder
"Anna will get to use the mirroir of
the locker room"-Pam Shriver
"Anna doesn't have an idol..she's her
own"-Nick Bollettieri
"We all like each other except
Kournikova, noone likes her"-Patty
Schnyder
"I just want to prove that Anna isn't
all that"-Irina Spirlea
"She's just a pretty girl who gets all
the attention"-Irina Spirlea
"Anna spends more time with make-up
and stuff like that ...I think movies would be a great job for her"-Martina
Hingis
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