Morozova, Olga Vasilievna

From 10 years old, she began to play tennis on the Dynamo courts with coach N. S. Teplyakova . She also trained with E.V. Korbut ^[2] . At 13, she became the champion of Dynamo CS in Riga in the younger age group. Starting from this tournament, she won all youth competitions, and was soon included in the adult team. At age 15, she was taken to the first team of the country. By this time, she began to develop her own tennis style - an active game with a quick exit to the net. In the winter of 1965, she first participated in an international tournament, where she played in tandem with the country's best tennis player A. Metreveli . In the same year she became the champion of the Wimbledon tournament among girls. In 1965-1966 she won the USSR Championship among girls in doubles and mixed doubles, and in 1967 - in singles.

In early 1969, Morozova moved to CSKA. Having won the All-Union competitions in Leningrad and the summer championship in Tashkent, she became the first tennis player of the country. She headed the All-Union Classification for 11 years, before switching to coaching. 22-time champion of the USSR : singles (1969-1971, 1976, 1980), doubles (1969-1973, 1975-1977, 1979-1980), mixed (1967, 1970-1973, 1975-1976), absolute champion of the USSR (1970-1971, 1976); finalist of the championships in singles (1979), doubles (1968) and mixed (1968, 1977). In 1972-1973, Olga Morozova became the owner of the USSR Cup as part of the CSKA team. 11-time winner of the All-Union Winter Competitions in singles (1969-1970, 1973-1974, 1980), doubles (1969-1970, 1973-1974) and mixed (1969, 1974), champion of Moscow in singles (1971 - summer; 1967 —1969, 1974-1975 - winter), doubles (1967-1968, 1970, 1974-1975, 1979, 1981 - winter) categories and mixed doubles (1970 - winter).

In 1971, she became the absolute European tennis champion in Bulgaria, winning all three categories (doubles, mixed doubles and singles). In general, over the years of his sports career at the European Championships, he won 22 gold medals, of which 6 in singles.

In 1972, the first of the Soviet athletes reached the finals of the first category tournament among professionals - at the Italian Open tournament .

In 1973, she won the Queens Club tournament, defeating the Australian I. Gulagong in the final. In the same year at Wimbledon she was already among the “seeded” players, and according to the results of the competition she was among the first eight. The following year, in Philadelphia, she defeated the first racket of the world, Billie Jean King .

The peak of his career occurred in 1974, when Morozova for the first time in the history of Soviet tennis played in the single finals of the Grand Slam tournaments - Roland Garros and Wimbledon . Both matches Morozova lost to the first racket of the world Chris Evert . In the same season, paired with Evert won Roland Garros. In 1975, she reached the finals of the pair competition at the Australian Open and Roland Garros. In Australia, Morozova's partner was Australian tennis player Margaret Court . She also performed at the WTA final championship , taking 3rd place in the group, and took the final 5th place.

In 1976, she played in the finals of the US Open (also paired).

In a mixed double with Alexander Metreveli, she reached the Wimbledon finals in 1968 and 1970.

The performance on the international arena Morozova ended in 1977 due to the fact that the USSR boycotted all tournaments with the participation of athletes from South Africa , expressing political protest against the apartheid policy.

In 1980, she won her last USSR championship by beating Galina Baksheeva in the semifinals, and in the final she won against Lyudmila Makarova.

Later she worked as a coach. Over the years, she worked with such tennis players as L. Savchenko , S. Parkhomenko , N. Zvereva , N. Medvedev , L. Meskhi , E. Likhovtseva , E. Dementyeva . The USSR women's team led by Olga Morozova twice entered the final of the Federation Cup (1988, 1990), and won 8 gold medals at the European Championships. In the 90s, she lived and worked in the UK with her family.

I stood at the origins of the creation of the Kremlin Cup among women.

Family

Husband Victor, daughter Catherine.

Doubles Wins (1)

Singles (2)

Doubles (3)

Mixed (2)

Ret = starred due to injury

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