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Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva (, 1971 ) is a Tennis player from Belarus . Playing initially for Soviet Union , Zvereva dominated doubles tennis tournaments in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s . She won the US Open girls' championship in 1987 beating Sandra Birch 6-0, 6-3 in the finals. After turning pro Zvereva won four WTA Tour singles titles and 79 WTA Tour doubles titles. Eighteen of them are Grand Slam doubles titles. In doubles Zvereva is a five times Wimbledon champion, four times US Open champion, five times French Open champion, and four times Australian Open champion. She won those Grand Slam titles with four different partners ( Gigi Fernandez , Martina Hingis , Pam Shriver and Larissa Neiland-Savchenko ). As for her best achievement in singles, in 1988 Zvereva reached the final of the French Open , where she was beaten (0-6, 0-6) by Steffi Graf , who went on to win all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal that year. In addition, Zvereva twice won mixed doubles titles at the Australian Open . In 1992, she won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the doubles event (with Leila Meskhi , representing the CIS ). FACTS
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