On June, 7th Russian tennis-player Anna Kurnikova had celebrated her birthday. Kurnikova is known all over the world, though she had never won any championship. Once she won first place in a global pair rating (together with Martina Hingis).

In 1998 Anna was in top twenty of the world's best tennis players and in 2000 - has reached the eighth place in global rating, but she couldn't rise to a higher place. In 2003 Anna was traumatized and had left the Big sport.

Having left the court, Kurnikova has not ceased to be the public person. Moreover, she had succeeded in high life much more, than in sports. In 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Kurnikova was in the list of 50 most beautiful people of the planet according to the "People" magazine. Also Anna had started to work as advertising agent of such companies, as Adidas, Berlei, Yonex and Omega. She had made more money on advertising than on her sports career. In 2000 Kurnikova was at 58th place in the celebrities rating of "Forbes" magazine. In 2003 Anna had become the most sexual woman of the planet according to "FHM" magazine.

Besides, the world public interrogatively looked on dating of Kurnikova and Pavel Bure, Enrike Iglesias and Sergey Fyodorov. However, interest to Kurnikova had started to weaken recently. Sometimes Anna Kurnikova can be seen on a tennis court. She agrees to give exhibition matches and master-classes for separate charge. Once Kurnikova had made very non-standard decision and had insured her body: hips and legs - for three million dollars, teat - for two million and face - for 10 million.

Anna Kurnikova is in the lead on the number of her name searches in the world-wide web. Besides, Kurnikova together with ballet dancer Michael Baryshnikov had headed the rating of the most influential natives of the former USSR that live in the USA nowadays. The rating was made by "Washington ProFile" news agency on the basis of interviews with famous American scientists, teachers, journalists and experts professionally studying the culture, economy, history and politics of Russia and other republics of the former USSR.

She is known all over the world as Russian tennis player, although she had not won any championship. Kurnikova is visible exclusively because of her appearance and wild high life. Many Russian sportsmen have changed their priorities because of Kurnikova: to star in advertising and to take part in TV-shows had become more interesting and profitable than to go in for sports.

It is worthy of note that the poker card combination is called in honor of Kurnikova: ace and king are called "Anna Kurnikova" because they look good but they win too rarely.

It had happened because of random coincidence on the abbreviation: АК = Ace King. There is also another, more ancient, interpretation of AK abbreviation - the Kalashnikov gun and sometimes this combination is named as AK-47. Anna Kurnikova is much more peaceful interpretation. Is this a tendency?