Anna Kournikova - A make shift!

Anna Kournikova is still the center of attraction where ever she goes. In tennis court she moves like a cheetah every time before gives up to the opposition. A tennis sensation from the time she was a teen spent more time posing for the photographs than in the tennis court playing singles!

Now finally she made a make shift to do something better than she has been doing for years, no. I am not exactly talking about her tennis credibility but off-court stories. Her playing career on WTA tour finished long time ago. These days Kournikova focused on getting fans to look at her work rather than her style, but unfortunately her fans are like one big hypnotized community that will see nothing but her look, they apparently told her she can do whatever possible for charity but they will look at her as admirers forever and don’t disallow their rights to do so!

“I never thrived on attention” Kournikova said in an interview recently “I never was in it for attention.”

She is trying to shed her image as over hyped tennis player to transform as a good will ambassador. She became children’s advocate through her work with the clubs of America and other charities. Sizzling under the hot sun in suburban Philadelphia, Kournikova holding a small tennis clinic for a bunch of lucky kids who were learning the basics of the game from former Grand Slam Doubles champion. Actually she learnt the basics from some veteran tennis stars there around before go to the clubs to teach the youngsters! Kournikova should have put this endeavor a long time ago before coming in to the tennis arena, then at least by now she would be having more single trophies in her show case to replace those glossy magazine covers!

“With my name I feel like I have a voice” Kournikova said about her plans for visiting the troops in Iraq. Definitely we know she got a voice, otherwise she would be on losing side in that brutal cat fight that broke out in a night bar couple of weeks ago. A jealousy female sitting in front of Kournikova in the bar just threw a beer jar at her without any particular reason! Right, she was drunk, but how could some one do this?! The small crowed that witnessed the fight said if Kornikova only had a tennis racket, she would have finished that strange lady in first serve!

“Don’t swing so hard, I know you have got a lot of power” Kournikova laughed at a kid who was practicing under her expertise. She crouched to get eye-level while instructing the kid. One of the kids seems pissed off by her bossy attitude and way of talking asked his friend who is this lady. The poor chap didn’t have any idea about Kournikova!

“A lot of them just 8 years old” Kournikova said “they even don’t know who I am”

Moments later she was off to what she is best at. Photo shoot and promotional appearance at the mall, it was nearly interrupted by her huge number of male fans who got too close to Kournikova (hypnotized community) the security needed to intervene to rescue her at the end. Some of them behaved like zombies moving forward with rising hands, didn’t even notice the strong presence of security personalities! Kournikova whisked away to meet and greet, then shuffled off to a VIP tent to have more photos with sponsors.

Kournikova did everything she could possibly do except tennis. She was scheduled to play for the St Louis Aces against the Philadelphia Freedoms in the American-based World Team Tennis. Kournikova wore a protective band on her left wrist to show that she is injured and going to miss the season with wrist injury!

“It is ridiculous, terrible!” between bites of salad, green beans and carrots Kournikova said. The servant from the restaurant almost gone faint, his face became pale like a dead man. “Madam those are fresh vegetable…” poor fellow stammered for words.

“Not to you. I am talking about my injury, I am so bummed.”

Relieved servant gone ahead with his work without showing any embarrassment.

Kournikova has been linked to the singer Enrique Iglesias for long time now, but declined to talk about it when press asked.

Injuries cut short Kornikova’s playing career in 2003, and her latest setback was a reminder why she was never able to stage a serious comeback. “The body is already beat up.” She said. Sprinkling the photo shoot there and here is making her happier than playing tennis. She is the only tennis player in the world who is having more hits on the internet than with the tennis racket that she managed to do while performing.

“I think it is so cool” She said. “It was a lot of hard work; it was a lot of satisfaction for my family and me. It was also fun.”

Sure, she never won a major championship. But Kournikova feels she doesn't have to defend her career - even without an appearance in a singles final in any of the four Grand Slam events.

'It's true. It's statistics,' she said. 'But I look at my other statistics and they perfectly, happily satisfy me.' The press puzzled by her answer, few of them were discussing about it after Kournikova left for another photo shoot, what statistics she was referring to, tennis or something else?