https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudmila_Samsonova
Liudmila Dmitriyevna Samsonova (Russian: Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, IPA: [lʲʊdˈmʲiɫə sɐmˈsonəvə]; born 11 November 1998) is a Russian tennis player. She competed for Italy from 2014 to 2018. Samsonova has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 63 in singles, achieved on 21 June 2021, and 666 in doubles, reached on 7 August 2017. She won her maiden WTA Tour title at the 2021 German Open. She has also won four singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Samsonova speaks both Russian and Italian fluently.[2]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK0t7gsAcj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJk8zXThhQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vare7B8Ant8
Liudmila Dmitriyevna Samsonova (Russian: Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, IPA: [lʲʊdˈmʲiɫə sɐmˈsonəvə]; born 11 November 1998) is a Russian tennis player. She competed for Italy from 2014 to 2018. Samsonova has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 63 in singles, achieved on 21 June 2021, and 666 in doubles, reached on 7 August 2017. She won her maiden WTA Tour title at the 2021 German Open. She has also won four singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Early life[edit]
Samsonova was born 11 November 1998 in the industrial city of Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Their family moved with the then-one-year-old Liudmila to Italy. Her father Dmitry, a table tennis player, was invited to play for the club "Ferentino" based in Torino. Her father urged her to start playing either table tennis or lawn tennis, choosing the latter. She started playing tennis at the age of six, joining Riccardo Piatti's tennis academy in Sanremo after the local tennis federation helped her financially with that. Until 2018, Liudmila represented Italy in professional tennis, before switching to the Russian flag. In 2021, she explained the reason for her decision was the extra pressure of competing for the Italian national team, a country where tennis is more followed than in Russia where she feels like competing only for herself, especially considering her "boom boom" hard-hitting game style.[1] She keeps practicing outside of Russia, as she is unsatisfied with the condition for professional tennis provided by the Russian Tennis Federation domestically. Liudmila stated, that if her parents had stayed in Russia, she would have chosen figure skating.[2]Samsonova speaks both Russian and Italian fluently.[2]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK0t7gsAcj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJk8zXThhQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vare7B8Ant8
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