Anna Kournikova makes Maxim cover
In spite of retiring from the game of tennis a number of years ago, the fact that Russia’s Anna Kournikova was featured on the cover of the 2010 October issue of Maxim, proves that her on-court abilities certainly, were not all she was known for.
Marking the fifth time Kournikova made it to the cover of a male magazine, photographer Jeff Olson shot the former tennis professional in 3-D, which came to be the first ever 3-D shoot for the magazine.
Anna was quoted in the magazine announcing her ‘new’ nationality. In the words of the Russian herself, “You know, I’ve always considered myself half Russian and half American. It never seemed to really matter if I had a passport or not. But when I started
working with the USO and the troops overseas, it just seemed the logical next step.”
Kournikova was photographed in a plain white bikini with a dog tag hanging down her neck, for the cover of the magazine. With very subtle, nude makeup, Anna was shown smiling with one end of the dog tag between her teeth.
With her blond locks let down, the former sportswoman was shot in the same attire for the photographs featured inside the magazine. In one of the five photographs showcased within the magazine, Kournikova is rocking a black bikini, imprinted with white stars
and the freshly turned American citizen was shown holding a little flag, of the United States of America.
Apart from making it solely based upon her looks, Anna made it big in the sport of tennis as well. The Russian formed a duo with Switzerland’s Martina Hingis to win the 1999 Australian Open Women’s doubles title, defeating the pair of USA’s Lindsay Davenport
and Belarus’ Natasha Zvereva.
Three years down the line, Anna picked up the Australian Open Women’s doubles, once again with Hingis by her side. The dynamic two came to defeat Spain’s Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchová in the championship final.
Her professional career however, seemed to have been side-lined, by the amount of publicity that she was getting. Apart from being featured in a number of magazines and doing advertisements, Kournikova came to be the ‘most searched’ string on the search
engine, Google.
Anna was notably known for being involved with pop sensation, Enrique Iglesias. However, that wasn’t all. An e-mail virus, apparently containing a picture of Anna Kournikova, developed by a Dutch programmer in 2001, was actually a malicious virus that would
infect computer systems, right after they’d click to view Anna’s picture.
Additionally, the former professional may have put a halt to her career as far as tennis is concerned. Nevertheless, regardless of the fact that she has, Kournikova is still the most popular tennis player in terms of her looks.
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