The Zvereva Award
Natasha Zvereva didn't have, I thought, a particularly unpronounceable name. And yet people managed to mangle it in the most astonishing ways. Even after she'd played at Wimbledon for ten years, Dickie Davies was still calling her "Zevereva". Quite a few people called her Zevreva. And so on.
So: the Zvereva Award to the player with the name the most commentators manage to mangle. Matevzic was probably last year's winner (or woulc have been): for some reason Eurosport kept calling her Mateyevich.
This year,even so early, it's clearly going to Anna Chakvetadze, whose name had three pronunciations yesterday on Eurosport alone. I've mercifully blanked all but Shock-ve-dot-see.
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