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Tatiana Golovin Profile |
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Birth Date: January 25, 1988
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Birth Place: Moscow, Russia
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Birth Name: Tatiana Golovin
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Biography |
Tatiana Golovin (Татьяна Головин or Татьяна Головина) is a
French professional tennis player.
She was born in Moscow, but moved to Paris with her parents
and obtained French citizenship. She also spent six years at
Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Florida and
speaks fluent English as a result. She is currently coached
by Tarik Benhabiles, Andy Roddick's former coach.
As a female her surname in Russian would normally be "Golovina",
but as a French citizen she legally has the same surname as
her father (of French descent). Russian sources are divided
on whether to spell her name in Russian as "Golovin" (Головин)
or "Golovina" (Головина), but "Golovin" seems to prevail.
She writes her name as "Golovin" although the traditional
French transliteration would be "Golovine". In French, the
pronunciations of these two spellings differ.
Tatiana's surname resembles French surnames in many ways as
it has strong common roots, spellings, pronunciation as
French surnames, as opposed to the Russian surnames.
Whichever way Tatiana's surname is regarded, French or
Russian, it is originally a French surname with French
heritage, showing the French roots of which she is proud.
In 2004 she won the mixed doubles trophy at the French Open
with Richard Gasquet.
Ms. Golovin suffered a badly sprained ankle in the
semifinals of the 2006 NASDAQ-100 Open against Maria
Sharapova in the third set with the score 3-6, 7-6, 3-4.
Prior to the sprain she had come back from 6-3, 5-1,
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