Tennis is World

Irina Khromacheva (26) is a tennis player from Russia who has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 41. In her childhood she was a buoyant and very lively child. Her parents tried to use various developing exercises for her when possible, thus she learned to walk at a quite early age. When she was three years old, she was recorded to the figure skating group. But once when she was training, Irina fell down inauspiciously, and the doctors stated the fracture of the shin, after that she stopped going in for figure skating. Simultaneously with training in figure skating, Irina went to art school. She couldn’t draw very well but she was good at clay modeling. That’s a pity, but tennis lessons didn’t allow her to continue the training. Once, in the summer of 1999, her parents went to Sokolniki Park to play tennis and took Irina with them. During the break they gave Irina a racket, and to their surprise she rapidly started to hit the ball. On their way to home, passing the courts ...