Ludmila Makarova
Country (sports) | Soviet Union | ||||||||||
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Born | Siberia, USSR | 26 March 1957||||||||||
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Ludmila Makarova (born 26 March 1957), also known as Luda Makarova, is a Russian former tennis player.[1]
Makarova, trained at Moscow's Spartak Club, won two medals for the Soviet Union at the 1981 Summer Universiade in Bucharest and was a national Federation Cup player in 1982, helping the team reach the World Group quarter-finals.
Now living in San Diego, Makarova is married to microbiologist Mikhail Popkov and has two daughters. Her youngest daughter, Christina, played professional tennis. The family left Russia in the 1990s.[2]
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References[]
- ^ Amdur, Neil; Mifflin, Lawrie (30 July 1982). "Scouting; American Dream". The New York Times.
- ^ "Focused on a future in pro tennis". San Diego Union-Tribune. 11 August 2010.
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- 1957 births
- Living people
- Soviet female tennis players
- Russian female tennis players
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Universiade bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Universiade medalists in tennis
- Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade