Ludmila Makarova Explained

Ludmila Makarova
Birth Date:26 March 1957
Birth Place:Siberia, USSR
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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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  1. News: Amdur . Neil . Mifflin . Lawrie . Scouting; American Dream . The New York Times . 30 July 1982.
  2. News: Focused on a future in pro tennis . . 11 August 2010.