Galina Sergeevna Korovina (nee Ivanova ; September 21, 1909 - August 5, 1980 ) - Soviet tennis player and tennis coach, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1945). 16-time champion of the USSR in singles, women and mixed doubles.
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| Date of Birth | September 21, 1909 |
| Date of death | August 5, 1980 (aged 70) |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Carier start | 1933 |
| Retirement | 1955 |
Sports career
Galina Korovina came to lawn tennis late - only at the age of 23, but by the mid-1930s she was already one of the strongest tennis players in the USSR. Trained with Bruno Spiegel [1] . For the first time, she entered the top ten of the Soviet rating in 1936 , and the next year she already became vice-champion of the USSR, losing in the final to the recognized favorite Nina Teplyakova . Places were also allocated in the single finals of the USSR Championship in the next two years, and in 1940 Korovin, with whom Evgeni Kudryavtsev worked as a coach, who put her game on the net [2] , won the championship for the first time, defeating Teplyakova in the final . After the first years of the war, in which Korovina was engaged in physical therapy with the wounded in hospitals [2] , she won the All-Union Championship in singles twice more - in 1944 and 1945. In 1945, she was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports .
In addition to the singles titles, Korovina became the champion of the USSR in women's pairs 12 times (for the first time in 1938 , and the last in 1955 ) and once in the mixed doubles (in 1948). She won the All-Union Winter Competition nine times (once, in 1950, in singles and eight times in doubles), twice became the owner of the USSR Cup in the Dynamo Leningrad team and repeatedly won the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions . Korovin is a 45-time champion of Leningrad in all categories, including 16-time in singles. She was part of the USSR national team in a series of friendly matches with the Czechoslovak team in 1938, and until 1954 she remained in the top ten tennis players of the USSR.
The game of Korovina was distinguished by courage and riskiness. Her strengths were a quick move around the court and long strokes, among which the left drive was especially successful.
In 1946, Galina Korovina graduated from the School of Higher Sports Excellence at the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture and, at the end of her playing career, she became a coach at the Leningrad Young Dynamo school. Among her pupils was a number of masters of sports of the USSR.
Galina Korovina died in 1980 . In 2009, her name was included in the lists of the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame [3] .
Notes
- ↑ SPIEGEL Bruno Alfredovich - Russian Tennis Federation . www.tennis-russia.ru. Date of treatment October 3, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Yuri Zerchaninov. Never lose to anyone-2 // Youth. - 1974. - No. 10 .
- ↑ Elena Shpiz. Dmitrieva and Metreveli awarded the laureates . Moscow Komsomolets (December 10, 2009). Date of treatment August 10, 2014.
Links
- B. Fomenko. Korovina (nee. Ivanova) Galina Sergeevna // Encyclopedia “Russian Tennis”. - 1999.
- Laureates of 2009 on the site of the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame