# Anna Kournikova Fans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237 "2002-12-27T21:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/41 "2002-12-30T15:23:49Z")
I can’t wait to see this rising star play, Simonya Popova - [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si\_online/news/2002/09/04/popova/](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/09/04/popova/) ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/42 "2002-12-30T15:47:11Z")
OMG!!!, Simonya IS a major league hottie!, DAMN. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/43 "2002-12-30T17:18:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by unclviny \* > \*\*OMG!!!, Simonya IS a major league hottie!, DAMN. > > unclviny \*\* For the love of all, please tell me you realize she isn’t a real person. George Plimpton wrote that article for Sports Illustrated as a joke about the direction women’s tennis has gone. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/44 "2002-12-30T17:33:46Z")
I’m not a follower of sports, so I was wooshed (my first one that I was aware of), so who is that?, I want to know NOW. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/45 "2002-12-30T17:34:32Z")
No, she IS real. She plays in her first professional tournament next year, on either February 30th or 31st if I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/46 "2002-12-30T18:09:08Z")
Nonsense, there is no Popova. [Read this.](http://www.espnstar.com/jsp/cda/tennis/aid=321352tennis_newsdetail.html) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/47 "2002-12-30T18:52:22Z")
However, there IS a Russian tennis player called [Maria Sharapova](http://marias.barbara-schett.net/modelling1.jpg), who’s already doing some modelling whilst her WTA ranking hasn’t even been in Top 100 yet. Before you get any dirty ideas, gentlemen: this girl was born in 1987. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/48 "2002-12-30T21:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **However, there IS a Russian tennis player called [Maria Sharapova](http://marias.barbara-schett.net/modelling1.jpg), who’s already doing some modelling whilst her WTA ranking hasn’t even been in Top 100 yet. Before you get any dirty ideas, gentlemen:** Too late. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/49 "2002-12-30T21:06:48Z")
Anna’s calender pics are already available online if you know where to look. I’d tell you where to look but I don’t want to mesh with the mods for they would throw me in Kazaa-Doom. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/50 "2002-12-30T21:34:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*Heck, Anna’s led a relatively scandal free career, considering what some of her fellow atheletes have done, I’d say that was pretty remarkable and worthy of praise. \*\* Well, I have no problem at all with Anna (I like how we all refer to her first name rather than attempt her last name :D), but this reminds me ofa Chris Rock bit. (paraphrased very loosely)- > [@](#): > > All these mamas being so proud of their sons, “He’s stayed out aof jail, he ain’t doin’ drugs…” > > That’s what you’re _supposed_ to do! You don’t get credit for doing what you’re _supposed_ to do! I don’t get no credit for _not_ being an asshole! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/51 "2002-12-31T23:03:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > \*\*Anna’s calender pics are already available online if you know where to look. I’d tell you where to look but I don’t want to mesh with the mods for they would throw me in Kazaa-Doom. \*\* Very creative, BioHazrd. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/52 "2002-12-31T23:15:05Z")
Yeah I gotta be honest, Anna doesn’t do much for me. When all these people cream over her, she does even less. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/53 "2003-01-01T00:48:45Z")
Hey, don’t anyone try to lump _me_ in with the herd. I’m a red-blooded hetereosexual male who (yes) has a lot of pictures and other media of beautiful women, and I’m telling you, Anna Kournikova does _nothing_ for me. However, my beef isn’t with her; she’s doing what nearly anyone else who had massive fame and fortune just handed to her for no logical reason would do. My beef is with anyone and everyone who handed her massive fame and fortune. Furthermore, I’d like someone to _please_ explain to me how appeal to horny teenage hetereosexual males became a prerequisite for \<\\> in women’s tennis. I don’t seem to recall anyone drooling over Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati, Gabriela Sabatina, Jennifer Capriati etc., and they all had a helluva lot more success than Kournikova. I mean, if she were a TV star, I wouldn’t have a beef with her getting by on sex appeal, but a professional athlete is expected to _compete_ and should be paid accordingly. (Oh, and this definitely holds for the men as well…I find it downright scandalous that Mike Tyson got paid as much as he did for getting his butt handed to him by Lennox Lewis.) A lot of the resentment isn’t just because Kournikova’s getting way too much for way too little (although there’s definitely that), but because she’s taking the spotlight from a lot of other, _much_ better players. How many websites to Lindsey Davenport or the Williams sisters have you seen lately? Remember, too, that Kournikova has never, in her entire _career_, won a singles title; in contrast, the “all style no substance” Andre Agassi had seven _before the age of 19_. There’s no way in hell someone’s who’s “a consistent top 50 player” deserves the kind of press…and money…she’s been getting. There’s even the very real danger that this will skew the focus on tennis and make sex appeal _more_ important than the ability to play the damn game. Keep in mind that the WTA has had trouble finding sponsors and staying afloat…if those horny teenage males (good lord, ten years ago could anyone have imagined _them_ having this kind of power over women’s tennis?) are what’s bringing the bucks in, you can bet that there will be a lot more pressure to produce more Kournikovas. I just don’t think that what’s good for horny guys with really low standards is good for women’s tennis, know what I’m saying? Here’s the lowdown on her “day job”: [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/playerCard?player=anna](http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/playerCard?player=anna) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/54 "2003-01-01T00:58:10Z")
There was some major drooling over Gabriela Sabatini at least, and I personally did some drooling over Pam Shriver, but that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/55 "2003-01-05T20:02:09Z")
I don’t know what it is about Anna but that girl is GORGEOUS! I guess I just dig her exotic look. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237/56 "2003-01-05T22:16:27Z")
Anna Kournikova is drop-dead beautiful. Instead of people bashing her, why don’t they just: **Deal With It!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-kournikova-fans/145237.md?page=2)