Date: 14 August 2003

Thailand's seaside town of Pattaya will welcome Russian Tennis star Anna Kournikova in an exhibition tennis match with local No.1 Tamarine Tanasugarn on November 9, 2003.

As sports, especially tennis become more and more popular in the country, Tourism Authority of Thailand take the opportunity to use sports to promote the country by inviting Anna Kournikova to be an ambassador for tourism in the beach city. She will also appear in "Unseen in Thailand", a promotional TAT video on lesser well-known places in and around the city.

Kournikova reached her best world ranking of No.8 two years ago, but unrelenting injuries have kept her out of the court fro most of the 2003 season resulting in her dropping rank to 135. She has been criticized by the media for paying more attention to her looks than her game.

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