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Soviet Union · born Moscow, 1958 · died 2015 · Wimbledon girls' champion 1975 and 1976
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Wimbledon girls' singles titles, 1975 and 1976
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Australian Open singles at 16, 1975
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Wimbledon women's singles fourth rounds, 1975 and 1976
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Universiade singles gold, Mexico City
Natalya Yuryevna Chmyreva, known as Natasha, was born in 1958 and started playing at seven under her parents, both tennis coaches. At 16 she reached the semi-finals of the 1975 Australian Open, and that year she won the girls' singles at Wimbledon and the US Open. She kept the Wimbledon girls' title in 1976 and reached the US Open quarter-finals, losing to Chris Evert. She played Fed Cup for the Soviet Union in 1978 and 1979, both years reaching the semi-finals, and her last international match was against Tracy Austin in the 1979 Fed Cup. She won the Soviet singles title in 1978 and the singles gold at the 1979 Universiade in Mexico City, graduated from Moscow State University, and later coached in Moscow. She was made an Honoured Master of Sport in 1991 and died in 2015.
| Major singles titles | 2: Wimbledon (1975, 1976) |
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| Girls' singles finals | Wimbledon 1975: beat Regina MarÅ¡Ãková 6-4, 6-3. Wimbledon 1976: beat Marise Kruger 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 |
| Australian Open 1975 | Semi-final at Kooyong aged 16, beating Christine Matison in the quarter-final; lost to Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-4 |
| Wimbledon women's singles | Fourth round 1975, beating Lesley Charles 8-6, 7-5, then lost to Martina Navratilova 6-1, 6-0. Fourth round 1976, beating Ilana Kloss 7-5, 6-4, then lost to Olga Morozova 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 |
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Kooyong 1975
Unseeded at the Australian Open, the 16-year-old from Moscow beat Christine Matison of Australia in the quarter-final and met Martina Navratilova, the eighth seed, in the semi-final. Navratilova won 6-4, 6-4 and lost the final to Evonne Goolagong.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1975
She won the girls' singles, beating Regina MarÅ¡Ãková of Czechoslovakia 6-4, 6-3 in the final, and in the women's singles beat Lesley Charles 8-6, 7-5 to reach the fourth round. There Navratilova again stopped her, this time 6-1, 6-0.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1976
She defended the girls' title against Marise Kruger of South Africa, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. In the women's singles she beat Ilana Kloss 7-5, 6-4, then lost in the fourth round to her compatriot Olga Morozova, the fifth seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Morozova went out in the quarter-finals.
Source: WikipediaMexico City 1979
In 1979 she won the singles gold and a doubles bronze at the Universiade in Mexico City. Her last international match came in the Fed Cup that year, against the American teenager Tracy Austin.
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