Anne Keothavong

Who is Anne Keothavong?

Anne Viensouk Keothavong is a retired Laotian-British tennis player. She announced her retirement on 24 July 2013 During her career she won a total of 20 International Tennis Federation singles titles, 8 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48. She also reached the semifinals of six International tournaments on the main tour and the semifinals of one Premier tournament.

Anne was British Number 1 at the WTA year-end rankings 5 times and in 2009 became the first British player to make the WTA top 50 since 1993. In April 2001, at the age of 17 years old she became the youngest player ever to play Fed Cup for Great Britain, making her debut at the age of 17 and she is second to Virginia Wade for most Fed Cup ties played for Great Britain with 39.

Since retiring, Anne is now a member of BT Sport's tennis coverage team alongside Martina Navratilova and fellow ex-number one Sam Smith.