Svetlana Parkhomenko

Svetlana Parkhomenko, born Svetlana Germanovna Cherneva on October 8, 1962, is a retired Soviet and Russian tennis player and later a coach. She won the Soviet singles championship in 1985 and was nine times Soviet champion in women's and mixed doubles. Internationally she took the 1983 European amateur titles in women's and mixed doubles, bronze at the 1983 Universiade and eight WTA Tour doubles titles, most of them in a successful partnership with Larisa Savchenko, with whom she reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 1987 after beating Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. She played for the Soviet Union and Russia in the Federation Cup, received the 1988 WTA Sportsmanship Award and after retiring in 1995 coached at the CSKA Moscow tennis club.