Buah-buahan selain bermanfaat untuk menyehatkan tubuh kita, ternyata buah mempunyai kelebihan yang sangat bermanfaat. Buah- buhan ternyata juga bisa membuat wajah kita menjadi cantik secara alami. Berikut beberapa buah yang dapat mempercantik wajah anda.
Buah Apel
Buah apel ini cocok di gunakan untuk wajah anda yang berminyak. Caranya ambil 1 buah apel, kemudian potong-potong dan masukan ke dalam blender. Blender apel sampai halus tanpa menggunakan air. Setelah di blender balurkan secara merata pada wajah anda. sebelum membalurkan sebaiknya bersihkan dahulu wajah anda. setelah di balur diamkan selama 20 menit. Kemudian bersihkan wajah dengan air hangat dan air dingin untuk meringkaskan pori-pori. Lakukanlah seminggu sekali.
Kulit Jeruk
Selain buahnya yang enak di makan, ternyata kulit jeruk bisa bermanfaat untuk wajah anda. Terutama untuk wajah anda yang kusam. Caranya tusuk-tusuk kulit jeruk denga garpu, kemudian masukan kulit jeruk ke dalam air hangat dan rendam selama satu malam. Basuhkan pada wajah yang telah di bersihkan kemudian keringkan dengan handuk. Berfungsi untuk mengangkat kotoran dan sel-sel kulit mati.
Buah Pepaya
Pepaya bisa bermanfaat untuk meremajakan kulit anda, haluskan pepaya yang ranum kemudian campurkan 1 sendok madu. Oleskan pada wajah anda dan diamkan selama 20 menit kemudian bilas hingga bersih. Pepaya ini mampu mengangkat sel-sel kulit mati dan mencegah kerut di wajah. Jika ingin hasil yang maksimal gunakan seminggu sekali.
Buah Melon
Melon dapat mendinginkan kulit anda yang terbakar matahari. Iris tipis melon lalu kompreskan selama 20 menit pada wajah anda yang telah di bersihkan, lalu bilas. Buah melon ini mengandung zat astrigent yang bermanfaat sebagi tonik dan mampu mendinginkan wajah yang terbakar karena matahari.
Dengan buah-buahan ini semoga bisa bermanfaat dan menjadikan wajah anda segar dan cantik alami tanpa menggunakan obat kecantikan.
Sabtu, 30 Juli 2011
Fakta Sooyoung
Nama : Sooyoung
Nama lengkap : Choi Soo Young
Arti nama : Daun bunga yang kemewahan
Nama panggilan di SNSD : Fun Loving Princess
Nama panggilan lain : A person with long body, long legs, model, food god, Interuptor, Syoung
Tanggal lahir : 10 Februari 1990
Golongan darah : O
Tinggi badan : 170 cm
Berat badan : 48 kg
Posisi : Membantu vokal
Angka favorite : 8
Hobi : Makan
Spesial : Bahasa Jepang, Dance
Durasi latihan : 6 tahun 3 bulan
Lagu favorite dari SNSD : Complete
1. Di rumahnya, dia tinggal dengan ayah, ibu, kakak perempuan, dan seekor anjing kecil lucu bernama Jjanglee.
2. Ayahnya, bernama Choi Jungnam, adalah seorang arsitek. Ada juga yang bilang pemilik perusahaan kontraktor. Ada juga yang bilang pengusaha. Disimpulkan saja, ayahnya adalah seorang arsitek yang sekaligus mengelola perusahaan kontrkator.
3. Ibunya, bernama Moon Soohee, adalah ibu rumah tangga. Tapi beliau pernah jadi guru di kelas opera.
4. Kakaknya, bernama Choi Soojin, sekarang kuliah di bidang literatur. Dia juga adalah artis musikal. Terakhir, dia main drama musikal berjudul Ggong dengan DBSK Yunho.
5. Sooyoung pernah debut di Jepang saat berumur 12 tahun dengan duo bernama Route O. Teman satu grupnya, Marina Takahashi, adalah orang Jepang. Route O adalah grup proyek 3 tahun yang merupakan kerja sama Korea-Jepang untuk Piala Dunia 2002.
6. Saat di Jepang, dia tinggal dengan BoA dan The Grace Sunday. Karena itu sampai sekarang Sooyoung memanggil BoA “senpai” bukannya “sunbaenim”.
7. Sooyoung adalah member tertinggi di SNSD. Saat debut tingginya 170 cm. Dan dia PASTI bertambah tinggi meskipun di cover album Hoot tingginya masih ditulis 170 cm (karena saat debut dia baru berumur 17 tahun). Data terakhir dari threadnya di SSF mengatakan bahwa tingginya 173 cm. Yang jelas, saat dia berdiri berjejer dengan member-member Super Junior, dia terlihat sama tinggi dengan Ryeowook, Sungmin dan Donghae.
8. Sooyoung tidak pernah punya pacar. Dan member-member yang lain sering meledeknya bahwa dia sangat ingin punya pacar.
9. Tentang masalah di atas, Sooyoung pernah menyimpan nomor telepon ibunya di ponselnya dengan nama Jo Insung. Di sana, SMS dari nomor itu berisi kata-kata seperti “Kamu lagi ngapain?” atau “Apa Kau sudah makan?”. Tapi saat nomor itu menelepon, yang terdengar malah suara ibunya. LOL
10. Sooyoung lahir di Gwangju (tapi ada juga yang bilang di Seoul) pada tanggal 10 Februari 1990.
11. Dia adalah member termuda ketiga (1 tahun 4 bulan lebih tua dari Seohyun dan 3 bulan lebih tua dari Yoona).
12. Meskipun 6 member lain lebih tua sekitar setahun (6 member lain semuanya lahir tahun 1989), Sooyoung tidak mau memanggil mereka “Unnie”, kecuali pada saat-saat tertentu kalau dia sedang ada-maunya.
13. Arti nama CHOI SOOYOUNG adalah Kelopak Bunga yang Mewah.
14. Nama Inggrisnya adalah Summer Choi. Nama ini merupakan pemberian Jessica.
15. Nama Jepangnya adalah Che Suyon. Dia mendapatkan nama ini saat debut di Jepang.
16. Dia dikenal sebagai juru bicara SNSD. Dia mengaku sering didorong ke depan mikrofon oleh member-member lainnya saat mereka harus memberikan pidato terima kasih atau sejenisnya. Dia juga dikenal sebagai pengambil alih tanggung jawab untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan “menjebak” dan berbicara pada situasi-situasi kurang menyenangkan.
17. Dia dekat dengan beberapa member Super Junior seperti:
-Siwon, siapapun tau tentang Choi Sibling dan fakta bahwa mereka kemana-mana berdua (waktu di mall/hotel di LA, waktu mengunjungi Park Seung Il di rumah sakit, waktu ulang tahun Jason Ma, dan setelah SM Concert yang di LA mereka juga dengan mencurigakannya berduaan terus *kenapa malah jadi ngegosip?*). Mereka juga mengambil kelas akting bersama dan Siwon bilang mereka berdua berjanji jika salah satu dari mereka membintangi drama atau film, maka dia harus mengajak yang lain untuk jadi cameo (terbukti akhirnya Sooyong jadi cameo di drama Siwon yang berjudul Oh My Lady). Siwon juga sering memperkenalkan Sooyoung sebagai sepupunya secara mereka sama-sama bermarga Choi.
–Sungmin, 7 bulan lebih jadi co-DJ untuk Chunji Radio dan Sungmin juga pernah nyebutin nama Sooyoung di thanks to album Super Junior,
-Yesung, waktu SNSD jadi bintang tamu di Youngstreet Radio dan Heechul menyuruh mereka mengirim pesan untuk menanyai mereka mirip fauna apa ke idol lain, Sooyoung mengirim SMS ke Yesung
18. Dia juga dekat dengan DBSK Junsu, Yoochun dan Yunho. Juga dengan Ft Island Jaejin.
19. MBLAQ Leejoon pernah bilang, “Sooyoung berbicara dengan baik. Dia tinggi dan sangat baik pada kami.”
20. Sooyoung memanggil Sungmin “Ming-oppa” dan Sungmin memanggil Sooyoung “Soong”. Sungmin pernah bilang bahwa fans boleh memanggilnya “Ming-oppa” seperti Sooyoung dan bahwa itu adalah panggilan favoritnya.
21. Masalah pendapat idol tentang dia mirip fauna apa ini, Yesung mengatakan dia mirip Sid di film Ice Age. Penyanyi “I Love You” Tim, bilang Sooyoung mirip anjing laut. Sementara aktor Jung Joon bilang dia mirip kukang.
22. Dia adalah Shiksin, atau bahasa Indonesianya kira-kira Dewi Makanan.
23. Dia makan rata-rata 6-7 kali sehari.
24. Yuri pernah cerita di Wonderful Outing, waktu mereka berdua masih syuting Unstoppable Marriage Yuri mengikuti pola makan Sooyoung yang 7 kali sehari itu. Akhirnya berat badan Yuri naik 5 kg sementara Sooyoung tetap biasa saja.
25. Pernah sekali Sooyoung kepalaran dan pergi ke Korean BBQ House sendiri dan memesan dua porsi bistik dan dwenjjang chiggae.
26. Rekornya sejauh ini adalah makan untuk porsi 6 orang seorang diri.
27. Sooyoung pernah protes pada Taeyen di Intimate Note bahwa Taeyeon dan member-member yang lain tidak mau menemani Sooyoung makan. Taeyeon bilang itu karena kalau yang lain ikut makan kaya dia, mereka akan gemuk sementara Sooyoung nggak.
28. Pernah sekali seorang artis senior Korea (aku lupa namanya) ketemu Sooyoung dan Yoona di sebuah restoran. Karena senior, si artis tadi bayarin makanan mereka berdua. Tapi dia kaget karena ternyata porsi makan mereka berdua setara dengan porsi makan 4 orang laki-laki dewasa.
29. Seorang editor Jepang pernah bercerita setelah dia memesankan makanan untuk SNSD, “Yang paling tinggi dan paling lancar bicara (bahasa Jepang) memesan donkatsu. Dan dia meminta ukuran King Size.”
30. Dalam fans meeting pertama SNSD, Yoona pernah mengatakan bahwa dirinya dan Sooyoung sering mengalami masalah di perut. Sunny bilang itu karena mereka kebanyakan makan. Hal ini juga pernah dibicarakan di HahaMong Show.
31. Masalah ke-shiksin-annya ini, ibunya bilang itu karena waktu debut di Jepang dulu dia sibuk sekali sehingga sering tidak sempat makan. Jadi dia balas dendamnya sekarang (tapi kok balas dendamnya lama banget? Hehe)
32. Meski dia makan dengan menggila, dia adalah member yang paling kurus. Dia termasuk underweight. Dengan tinggi sekitar 173 cm, beratnya hanya sekitar 48 kg. (Anehnya, Yoona yang merupakan Shiksin kedua juga termasuk yang paling kurus di SNSD. Semacam kutukan, semua shiksin di SNSD, yaitu Sooyoung-Yoona-Yuri-Jessica adalah yang paling kurus).
33. Waktu ditanya kenapa bisa tetap kurus meski makannya banyak, Sooyoung pernah bilang bahwa semua makanannya lari ke pipi.
34. Masalah pipinya yang chubby, Sooyoung juga pernah mengungkapkan di acara Shin Dong Yup 400 Idol Show (kalo ga salah namanya itu) bahwa dulu dia ingin operasi plastik gara-gara pipinya terlalu chubby. Tapi sekarang pipinya sudah tidak se-chubby dulu. Kata seorang ahli, itu karena lemak bayinya sudah menghilang karena masa pertumbuhannya sudah terhenti.
35. Sooyoung adalah member SNSD dengan ukuran pinggang terkecil. Di SGB Tiffany pernah mengukurnya dan ternyata ukurannya cuma 22 inch. Di sumber lain malah ada yang bilang cuma 21 inch!
36. Dia memenangkan Most Comic Talent award pada 2009 Girl’s Award. Saat itu yang memilihnya adalah Super Junior, DBSK dan Ft Island.
37. Menyangkut award ini, member-member DBSK mengatakan, “Sooyoung sangat menyenangkan dan memiliki sesuatu di dalam dirinya yang membuatnya menyenangkan.”
38. Member-member lainnya selalu bilang bahwa Sooyoung adalah member tercantik tanpa make-up, sejak zaman ITNW. Kim Shinyoung juga mengakui hal ini saat SNSD jadi bintang tamu di Win Win. Di mana Shinyoung sendiri juga memilih Sooyoung sebagai yang tercantik tanpa make-up.
39. Sooyoung bisa memainkan piano serta sedikit gitar dan drum. Yang mengajarinya gitar adalah Super Junior Sungmin. Sedangkan yang mengajarkan drum adalah salah satu member TRAX.
40. Dia adalah alumni Jeong Shin Female High School. Dia adalah adik kelas Taeyeon dan seangkatan dengan Wonder Girl Sunye.
41. Dia lancar berbahasa Korea dan Jepang. Sekarang, bahasa Inggrisnya juga semakin lancar dan dikenal sebagai member SNSD ketiga terbaik untuk berbahasa Inggris setelah Jessica dan Tiffany (yang keduanya kelahiran USA).
42. Rumahnya sangaaaaat luas. Kalau ga salah rumahnya itu terdiri dari beberapa bangunan gitu. Lapangannya juga luas. Dan kamar Sooyoung sendiri juga sangat luas dan terdiri dari beberapa ruangan juga. Hal ini bisa dilihat di MTV SNSD Special yang part Sooyoung (episode 1 dan 2).
43. Karena hal ini Sooyoung juga dikenal sebagai salah satu artis SM yang berasal dari keluarga kaya selain Siwon, Sungmin, Kyuhyun dan Sunny.
44. Tapi Sooyoung pernah ngeyel bilang bahwa sebenarnya keluarganya ga kaya. Setelah didesak terus oleh MC, akhirnya dia bilang bahwa yang kaya itu kakeknya.
45. Golongan darahnya adalah O.
46. Sooyoung adalah orang termuda yang memenangkan kuis Star Golden Bell.
47. Para antifans SNSD menamainya Anti’s Darling alias Kesayangan Antifans. Mereka bilang Sooyoung yang paling rendah hati dan natural. Pada intinya, Sooyoung memiliki antifans paling sedikit.
48. Di Forum STAND (forum antifans SNSD), thread Sooyoung adalah yang paling sepi.
49. Sooyoung adalah member SNSD yang tidak terkena skandal meskipun foto-fotonya dengan beberapa member DBSK beredar.
50. Sooyoung pernah ditanyai berapa orang cowok yang pernah naksir dia, dia jawab 5 orang. Tapi dia menambahkan, “Tapi mereka tidak benar-benar mencintaiku. Aku hanya digunakan untuk mengusir kesepian mereka.”
51. Waktu terlama dia menyukai seorang laki-laki adalah satu setengah bulan.
52. Di Star Golden Bell, Sooyoung pernah cerita bahwa dia pernah naksir cowok SMA waktu dia SMP. Dia menunggu cowok itu lewat di depan rumahnya setiap hari. Tapi akhirnya dia tahu bahwa cowok itu sudah punya pacar. Sooyoung pun menangis di kelasnya. Sooyoung juga bilang, “Cewek itu bahkan nggak lebih cantik daripadaku!”. Hehehe, dasar Sooyoung!
53. Di Sukira, Super Junior Eunhyuk pernah cerita bahwa Sooyoung pernah menyukainya saat dia masih trainee. Sooyoung cuma ketawa-ketawa aja waktu mendengarnya.
54. Motto hidupnya adalah “Jangan suka menunda-nunda!”.
55. Taeyeon pernah menyebut Sooyoung sebagai teman, adik, rekan dan suami sekaligus pada Rolling Paper di Maybee Radio.
56. Pada saat Taeyeon main musikal, Sooyoung mengirim karangan bunga yang bertuliskan, “Istriku, semangat ya!”.
57. Di ending lagu My Friend waktu tampil di Music Core, Sooyoung dan Taeyeon berlutut dengan wajah saling berhadapan dan menutup mulut mereka dengan tangan. Netizen mengira mereka ciuman! Kasus ini sempat bikin heboh dan jadi trending topic di Twitter.
58. Saat Taeyeon mengatakan ingin berhenti menjadi leader, Sooyoung adalah orang yang pertama mendatanginya dan menenangkannya. Di antara semua member, hanya Sooyoung yang menjadi tempat curahan hati Taeyeon.
59. Di Win Win, Sooyoung pernah mengatakan bahwa hubungannya dengan Tiffany waktu awal debut tidak begitu akrab. Tapi sekarang hubungan mereka sudah seperti suami-istri.
60. Kalau tidur, Sooyoung punya kebiasaan ngomong/ngelindur. Pernah waktu Seohyun membangunkannya, dia bilang “Urus saja urusanmu sendiri!”. Karena Seohyun takut, Seohyun minta bantuan Yuri. Dan dia bilang ke Yuri “Kau benar-benar mau mati ya?!”. Hehehe. Waktu Seohyun dan Yuri menceritakan ini dia malah bingung dan ga ingat kalau dia pernah bilang begitu.
61. Meski begitu, menurut Seohyun, Sooyoung adalah member yang paling mudah dibangunkan di pagi hari.
62. Sooyoung juga punya kebiasaan tidur lasak. Waktu masih di dorm yang lama dan sekamar dengan Taeyeon dan Yoona, Sooyoung sering berguling ke kanan dan kiri ke tempat tidur mereka berdua. Saking sebalnya Taeyeon, dia pernah menggeser tempat tidurnya sedikit. Tapi, hasilnya malah dia yang jatuh ke celah di antara tempat tidurnya dan Sooyoung itu.
63. Dia diberi julukan “Kim Yuna of the Entertainment Industry”.
64. Dia juga terpilih sebagai idol yang paling cantik saat memakai jeans.
65. Dia juga terpilih sebagai salah satu dari lima idol Korea yang memiliki kaki paling indah.
66. Dia terpilih di peringkat kelima sebagai idol yang cocok berkecimpung di dunia seni peran. Nomor tiga kalau hanya merangking idol perempuan.
67. Dia adalah satu-satunya orang Asia yang mendapat julukan sebagai “The Top 10 Barely Legal Hotties List of Complex Magazine” (terbit online 14 Juli 2009).
68. Dalam sebuah wawancara di Chosen, Sooyoung disebut sebagai member yang berperilaku paling baik dan dihormati.
69. Dalam wawancara yang sama, Yuri berkata, “Lebih daripada siapapun, Sooyoung adalah member yang paling dipercaya untuk membuat keputusan mana yang benar. Saat ada sesuatu yang orang lain tidak suka melakukannya, dia akan berdiri dan melakukannya. Dan jika ada suatu masalah, dia akan bangkit dan menyelesaikannya.”
70. Sooyoung menyanyikan lagu pembuka “I Am” versi Korea untuk kartun Inuyasha.
71. Sooyoung bilang dia sedih saat dinobatkan sebagai member yang paling ditakuti/bandel di dorm. “Aku sebenarnya sangat pendiam di dorm,” katanya.
72. Hyoyeon mendukung pernyataan Sooyoung dengan mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung adalah member yang paling patuh di dorm.
73. Sooyoung sangat menyayangi Maknae Seobaby. Dia selalu berbicara yang baik tentang Seohyun dan hampir selalu membiarkannya menang dalam setiap pertandingan yang mereka ikuti. Sooyoung juga sering terlihat menepuk punggung Seohyun untuk menenangkannya dalam berbagai reality show saat Seororo merasa malu.
74. Sooyoung adalah salah satu member yang paling penyayang. Mereka bersembilan tentu saja penyayang semua. Tapi Sooyoung adalah salah satu yang paling demonstarif. Dia juga hampir selalu menjadi orang pertama yang berlari untuk memeluk member lain untuk menenangkan mereka.
75. Dalam suatu Radio Bora, Sooyoung pernah menangis saat meminta Taeyeon dan Tiffany untuk tidak menutup diri pada mereka. Dia meminta Taeyeon dan Tiffany mendatanginya kalau mereka ada masalah karena kata Sooyoung keluarga mereka jauh (Tiffany di LA dan Taeyeon di Busan).
76. Sooyoung suka membaca novel Harry Potter.
77. Dia menyukai fotografi. Dia sering menjadikan member lain sebagai obyek fotonya. Karya-karyanya ditempelkan di pintu kulkas di dorm mereka.
78. Kalau pergi ke tempat karaoke (kabarnya SNSD suka ke tempat karaoke milik Super Junior Leeteuk karena mereka bisa gratis, hehe), Sooyoung bersama Yoona akan melepaskan sepatu mereka dan bernyanyi dan menari di sofa. Dan Sooyoung suka ga mau melepaskan mikrofon dari tangannya alias ga ngasi kesempatan yang lain buat nyayi.
79. Sooyoung juga dekat dengan mantan MC SGB, Kim Jaedong. Dia sering meminta Sooyoung jadi bintang tamu di acaranya. Mereka dekat karena sama-sama jadi MC di acara Fantasy Duo.
80. Di Yu Hueiyol Sketchbook, Sooyoung ditanyai, “Kapan Kau terakhir berbohong?”. Dia menjawab bahwa dia tidak pernah berbohong. Member-member lain menyetujuinya.
81. Dia adalah fans berat Brad Pitt. Tapi ibunya bilang dia tidak mau Sooyoung menikah dengan orang asing.
82. Selain Brad Pitt, dia juga suka dengan aktor Jo Insung, Lee Seunggi, Goh Soo dan penyanyi Jason Mraz.
83. Tentang Seunggi, setelah Sooyoung mengatakan bahwa dia menyukai Seunggi, Yoona juga mengatakan hal yang sama (kejadian ini ada di Hello Baby). Dalam acara lain, Seunggi disuruh memilih antara Sooyoung dan Yoona, dan dia memilih Yoona. Oh, poor Sooyoungie!!
84. Sooyoung adalah salah satu peminum terburuk di SNSD selain Jessica. Dia bisa menjadi pemarah. Tiffany pernah menceritakan hal ini di Win Win.
85. Meskipun dia dikenal sebagai gamer terbaik selain Sunny, Sunny pernah meledeknya karena Sooyoung membutuhkan waktu 30 menit untuk menghabiskan jamur dalam game Super Mario.
86. Dari fans meeting pertama SNSD, Seohyun mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung adalah member yang paling hafal semua gerakan koreografi (termasuk part member lain) sehingga dia sering dimintai bantuan saat latihan.
87. Saat menyetir, Sooyoung sering susah untuk membelokkan mobilnya. Harus ada seseorang untuk mengingatkannya. Kalau tidak, maka dia akan jalan lurus terus.
88. Dia adalah penggemar baseball. Pernah sekali dia bercanda mengatakan bahwa dia suka “Ya-dong” yang berarti film porno. Setelah itu dia mengoreksi bahwa maksudnya adalah “Ya-gu Dong-youngsang” alias video baseball. Sebenarnya waktu itu para member SNSD disuruh untuk mengatakan sesuatu yang bisa membuat orang lain terkejut. Meskipun Sooyoung bercanda, tapi gosip itu sempat meluas.
89. Banyak bukti Sooyoung sering menonton baseball. Bahkan dia pernah membuka acara pertandingan baseball bersama Yuri dengan melakukan pelemparan bola dan pemukulan pertama.
90. Sooyoung adalah member SNSD yang paling gampang menangis. Dia menangis saat ingat keluarganya. Saat hari terakhir syuting Factory Girl. Saat syuting MTV SNSD Special bersama keluarganya. Saat gurunya waktu kelas 5 SD datang di sebuah acara dimana dia jadi bintang tamu. Dan saat Ok Juhyun, mantan member Fink KL, mengatakan bahwa dia ingin menjadi sunbae yang baik. Ok Juhyun yang dekat dengan SNSD juga mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung sangat gampang menangis.
91. Ok Juhyun dan Tiffany mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung mirip dengan Jin, member Fin KL yang lain, karena mereka suka berdoa untuk mendapatkan suami setiap hari.
92. Ok Juhyun pernah merancang skenario kencan buta untuk Sooyoung. Sayangnya hal ini tidak berhasil. Menurut Sooyoung, saat ini mereka terlalu sibuk sehingga tidak sempat memikirkan punya pacar.
93. Pada Radio Shim Shim Tapa, Sooyoung pernah mengatakan bahwa dirinya adalah yang paling mudah bergaul dengan laki-laki.
94. Sementara itu, pada siaran radio yang sama, Tiffany justru mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung adalah member yang paling susah bergaul dengan laki-laki Menurut Tiffany, dia mengatakan itu karena Sooyoung tidak pernah mau menunjukkan sisi cantik dan feminimnya kecuali di depan laki-laki yang disukainya. Tiffany bahkan sampai gemas saat mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung yang asli itu sangat manis, baik dan cerdas. Tapi dia menutup-nutupinya karena belum ada orang yang disukainya sekarang.
95. Menurut Sooyoung, semua laki-laki yang dikenalnya akan dianggapnya sebagai Oppa (mengacu pada member-member Super Junior) atau dongsaeng.
96. Selain tidak mau memanggil 6 member yang lebih tua dengan panggilan “Unnie”, Sooyoung juga menolak memanggil SHINee Onew dengan panggilan “Oppa”.
97. Sooyoung memiliki beberapa kesamaan dengan Super Junior Siwon, SHINee Minho dan f(x) Sulli, dan kadang-kadang DBSK Changmin juga dimasukkan. Kesamaannya adalah:
Sama-sama bermarga Choi dan satu-satunya yang bermarga Choi di grup masing-masing
Sama-sama yang paling tinggi di grup masing-masing
Sama-sama good-looking
Karena itu mereka sering disebut sebagai “Choi Siblings”.
98. Siwon pernah mengatakan bahwa dia sering memperkenalkan Sooyoung sebagai sepupunya sementara Minho menyebut Sooyoung di thanks to part album Lucifer sebagai “My Noona”.
99. Sooyoung juga memiliki beberapa kesamaan dengan DBSK Changmin sehingga mereka sering dipasangkan karena hal ini:
Sama-sama yang paling tinggi di grup masing-masing (bahkan sebenarnya Changmin adalah idol laki-laki tertinggi di SM dan Sooyoung adalah idol perempuan tertinggi di SM)
Sama-sama shiksin (kalau Sooyoung adalah Dewi Makanan, maka Changmin adalah Dewa Makanan)
Changmin suka nonton film porno dan Sooyoung, gara-gara becandaan yang sudah disebutkan di atas, juga “dituduh” suka film porno
Sama-sama sering dikatakan memiliki wajah yang tidak terlalu Korea
100. Dia adalah member yang underrated bersama dengan Sunny, Seohyun dan Hyoyeon.
101. Dia bisa makan 3 sendok es krim dalam 5 menit.
102. Sahabat Sooyoung adalah kakaknya, Soojin.
103. Dia naksir berat sama Jo Insung dan Lee Sueng Gi.
104. Ketika ia masih di sekolah menengah, dia menyukai seorang pria tertentu yang di Hari Valentine dan dia berencana memberinya coklat. Ketika hari besar tiba, ia begitu malu untuk mengungkapkan perasaan-perasaannya hingga akhirnya ia tidak jadi memberikan coklat itu dan membawanya pulang.
105. Seorang anggota TRAX mengajarkan cara bermain drum sementara Sungmin mengajarkan cara bermain gitar.
106. Dia bisa berbahasa Korea, Jepang, dan sedikit bahasa Inggris.
107. Tempat favoritnya untuk dikunjungi adalah Amerika Serikat.
108. Dia juga dekat berteman dengan Jaeson Ma (pendeta / musisi) dan Vanness Wu.
109. Dia menyukai kubis pedas.
110. Musim favoritnya adalah Winter.
111. Lagu favoritnya dari SNSD adalah “Complete”.
112. Warna favoritnya adalah pink. Tapi, berdasarkan pada wawancara terbaru dari majalah Vivi, tampak bahwa dia telah berubah warna favoritnya dari pink sampai hitam.
113. Es krim favoritnya adalah rasa chocomint.
114. Selain Sungmin, ia juga dekat dengan hampir seluruh anggota Super Junior.
115. Sooyoung adalah penggemar Harry Potter.
116. Dia adalah penggemar dari drama jepang “Hana Yori Dango”.
117. Sooyoung dapat meniru tanda tangan anggota SNSD lainnya dengan baik. Tanda tangan yang paling sulit untuk ditiru baginya adalah Jessica.
Nama lengkap : Choi Soo Young
Arti nama : Daun bunga yang kemewahan
Nama panggilan di SNSD : Fun Loving Princess
Nama panggilan lain : A person with long body, long legs, model, food god, Interuptor, Syoung
Tanggal lahir : 10 Februari 1990
Golongan darah : O
Tinggi badan : 170 cm
Berat badan : 48 kg
Posisi : Membantu vokal
Angka favorite : 8
Hobi : Makan
Spesial : Bahasa Jepang, Dance
Durasi latihan : 6 tahun 3 bulan
Lagu favorite dari SNSD : Complete
1. Di rumahnya, dia tinggal dengan ayah, ibu, kakak perempuan, dan seekor anjing kecil lucu bernama Jjanglee.
2. Ayahnya, bernama Choi Jungnam, adalah seorang arsitek. Ada juga yang bilang pemilik perusahaan kontraktor. Ada juga yang bilang pengusaha. Disimpulkan saja, ayahnya adalah seorang arsitek yang sekaligus mengelola perusahaan kontrkator.
3. Ibunya, bernama Moon Soohee, adalah ibu rumah tangga. Tapi beliau pernah jadi guru di kelas opera.
4. Kakaknya, bernama Choi Soojin, sekarang kuliah di bidang literatur. Dia juga adalah artis musikal. Terakhir, dia main drama musikal berjudul Ggong dengan DBSK Yunho.
5. Sooyoung pernah debut di Jepang saat berumur 12 tahun dengan duo bernama Route O. Teman satu grupnya, Marina Takahashi, adalah orang Jepang. Route O adalah grup proyek 3 tahun yang merupakan kerja sama Korea-Jepang untuk Piala Dunia 2002.
6. Saat di Jepang, dia tinggal dengan BoA dan The Grace Sunday. Karena itu sampai sekarang Sooyoung memanggil BoA “senpai” bukannya “sunbaenim”.
7. Sooyoung adalah member tertinggi di SNSD. Saat debut tingginya 170 cm. Dan dia PASTI bertambah tinggi meskipun di cover album Hoot tingginya masih ditulis 170 cm (karena saat debut dia baru berumur 17 tahun). Data terakhir dari threadnya di SSF mengatakan bahwa tingginya 173 cm. Yang jelas, saat dia berdiri berjejer dengan member-member Super Junior, dia terlihat sama tinggi dengan Ryeowook, Sungmin dan Donghae.
8. Sooyoung tidak pernah punya pacar. Dan member-member yang lain sering meledeknya bahwa dia sangat ingin punya pacar.
9. Tentang masalah di atas, Sooyoung pernah menyimpan nomor telepon ibunya di ponselnya dengan nama Jo Insung. Di sana, SMS dari nomor itu berisi kata-kata seperti “Kamu lagi ngapain?” atau “Apa Kau sudah makan?”. Tapi saat nomor itu menelepon, yang terdengar malah suara ibunya. LOL
10. Sooyoung lahir di Gwangju (tapi ada juga yang bilang di Seoul) pada tanggal 10 Februari 1990.
11. Dia adalah member termuda ketiga (1 tahun 4 bulan lebih tua dari Seohyun dan 3 bulan lebih tua dari Yoona).
12. Meskipun 6 member lain lebih tua sekitar setahun (6 member lain semuanya lahir tahun 1989), Sooyoung tidak mau memanggil mereka “Unnie”, kecuali pada saat-saat tertentu kalau dia sedang ada-maunya.
13. Arti nama CHOI SOOYOUNG adalah Kelopak Bunga yang Mewah.
14. Nama Inggrisnya adalah Summer Choi. Nama ini merupakan pemberian Jessica.
15. Nama Jepangnya adalah Che Suyon. Dia mendapatkan nama ini saat debut di Jepang.
16. Dia dikenal sebagai juru bicara SNSD. Dia mengaku sering didorong ke depan mikrofon oleh member-member lainnya saat mereka harus memberikan pidato terima kasih atau sejenisnya. Dia juga dikenal sebagai pengambil alih tanggung jawab untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan “menjebak” dan berbicara pada situasi-situasi kurang menyenangkan.
17. Dia dekat dengan beberapa member Super Junior seperti:
-Siwon, siapapun tau tentang Choi Sibling dan fakta bahwa mereka kemana-mana berdua (waktu di mall/hotel di LA, waktu mengunjungi Park Seung Il di rumah sakit, waktu ulang tahun Jason Ma, dan setelah SM Concert yang di LA mereka juga dengan mencurigakannya berduaan terus *kenapa malah jadi ngegosip?*). Mereka juga mengambil kelas akting bersama dan Siwon bilang mereka berdua berjanji jika salah satu dari mereka membintangi drama atau film, maka dia harus mengajak yang lain untuk jadi cameo (terbukti akhirnya Sooyong jadi cameo di drama Siwon yang berjudul Oh My Lady). Siwon juga sering memperkenalkan Sooyoung sebagai sepupunya secara mereka sama-sama bermarga Choi.
–Sungmin, 7 bulan lebih jadi co-DJ untuk Chunji Radio dan Sungmin juga pernah nyebutin nama Sooyoung di thanks to album Super Junior,
-Yesung, waktu SNSD jadi bintang tamu di Youngstreet Radio dan Heechul menyuruh mereka mengirim pesan untuk menanyai mereka mirip fauna apa ke idol lain, Sooyoung mengirim SMS ke Yesung
18. Dia juga dekat dengan DBSK Junsu, Yoochun dan Yunho. Juga dengan Ft Island Jaejin.
19. MBLAQ Leejoon pernah bilang, “Sooyoung berbicara dengan baik. Dia tinggi dan sangat baik pada kami.”
20. Sooyoung memanggil Sungmin “Ming-oppa” dan Sungmin memanggil Sooyoung “Soong”. Sungmin pernah bilang bahwa fans boleh memanggilnya “Ming-oppa” seperti Sooyoung dan bahwa itu adalah panggilan favoritnya.
21. Masalah pendapat idol tentang dia mirip fauna apa ini, Yesung mengatakan dia mirip Sid di film Ice Age. Penyanyi “I Love You” Tim, bilang Sooyoung mirip anjing laut. Sementara aktor Jung Joon bilang dia mirip kukang.
22. Dia adalah Shiksin, atau bahasa Indonesianya kira-kira Dewi Makanan.
23. Dia makan rata-rata 6-7 kali sehari.
24. Yuri pernah cerita di Wonderful Outing, waktu mereka berdua masih syuting Unstoppable Marriage Yuri mengikuti pola makan Sooyoung yang 7 kali sehari itu. Akhirnya berat badan Yuri naik 5 kg sementara Sooyoung tetap biasa saja.
25. Pernah sekali Sooyoung kepalaran dan pergi ke Korean BBQ House sendiri dan memesan dua porsi bistik dan dwenjjang chiggae.
26. Rekornya sejauh ini adalah makan untuk porsi 6 orang seorang diri.
27. Sooyoung pernah protes pada Taeyen di Intimate Note bahwa Taeyeon dan member-member yang lain tidak mau menemani Sooyoung makan. Taeyeon bilang itu karena kalau yang lain ikut makan kaya dia, mereka akan gemuk sementara Sooyoung nggak.
28. Pernah sekali seorang artis senior Korea (aku lupa namanya) ketemu Sooyoung dan Yoona di sebuah restoran. Karena senior, si artis tadi bayarin makanan mereka berdua. Tapi dia kaget karena ternyata porsi makan mereka berdua setara dengan porsi makan 4 orang laki-laki dewasa.
29. Seorang editor Jepang pernah bercerita setelah dia memesankan makanan untuk SNSD, “Yang paling tinggi dan paling lancar bicara (bahasa Jepang) memesan donkatsu. Dan dia meminta ukuran King Size.”
30. Dalam fans meeting pertama SNSD, Yoona pernah mengatakan bahwa dirinya dan Sooyoung sering mengalami masalah di perut. Sunny bilang itu karena mereka kebanyakan makan. Hal ini juga pernah dibicarakan di HahaMong Show.
31. Masalah ke-shiksin-annya ini, ibunya bilang itu karena waktu debut di Jepang dulu dia sibuk sekali sehingga sering tidak sempat makan. Jadi dia balas dendamnya sekarang (tapi kok balas dendamnya lama banget? Hehe)
32. Meski dia makan dengan menggila, dia adalah member yang paling kurus. Dia termasuk underweight. Dengan tinggi sekitar 173 cm, beratnya hanya sekitar 48 kg. (Anehnya, Yoona yang merupakan Shiksin kedua juga termasuk yang paling kurus di SNSD. Semacam kutukan, semua shiksin di SNSD, yaitu Sooyoung-Yoona-Yuri-Jessica adalah yang paling kurus).
33. Waktu ditanya kenapa bisa tetap kurus meski makannya banyak, Sooyoung pernah bilang bahwa semua makanannya lari ke pipi.
34. Masalah pipinya yang chubby, Sooyoung juga pernah mengungkapkan di acara Shin Dong Yup 400 Idol Show (kalo ga salah namanya itu) bahwa dulu dia ingin operasi plastik gara-gara pipinya terlalu chubby. Tapi sekarang pipinya sudah tidak se-chubby dulu. Kata seorang ahli, itu karena lemak bayinya sudah menghilang karena masa pertumbuhannya sudah terhenti.
35. Sooyoung adalah member SNSD dengan ukuran pinggang terkecil. Di SGB Tiffany pernah mengukurnya dan ternyata ukurannya cuma 22 inch. Di sumber lain malah ada yang bilang cuma 21 inch!
36. Dia memenangkan Most Comic Talent award pada 2009 Girl’s Award. Saat itu yang memilihnya adalah Super Junior, DBSK dan Ft Island.
37. Menyangkut award ini, member-member DBSK mengatakan, “Sooyoung sangat menyenangkan dan memiliki sesuatu di dalam dirinya yang membuatnya menyenangkan.”
38. Member-member lainnya selalu bilang bahwa Sooyoung adalah member tercantik tanpa make-up, sejak zaman ITNW. Kim Shinyoung juga mengakui hal ini saat SNSD jadi bintang tamu di Win Win. Di mana Shinyoung sendiri juga memilih Sooyoung sebagai yang tercantik tanpa make-up.
39. Sooyoung bisa memainkan piano serta sedikit gitar dan drum. Yang mengajarinya gitar adalah Super Junior Sungmin. Sedangkan yang mengajarkan drum adalah salah satu member TRAX.
40. Dia adalah alumni Jeong Shin Female High School. Dia adalah adik kelas Taeyeon dan seangkatan dengan Wonder Girl Sunye.
41. Dia lancar berbahasa Korea dan Jepang. Sekarang, bahasa Inggrisnya juga semakin lancar dan dikenal sebagai member SNSD ketiga terbaik untuk berbahasa Inggris setelah Jessica dan Tiffany (yang keduanya kelahiran USA).
42. Rumahnya sangaaaaat luas. Kalau ga salah rumahnya itu terdiri dari beberapa bangunan gitu. Lapangannya juga luas. Dan kamar Sooyoung sendiri juga sangat luas dan terdiri dari beberapa ruangan juga. Hal ini bisa dilihat di MTV SNSD Special yang part Sooyoung (episode 1 dan 2).
43. Karena hal ini Sooyoung juga dikenal sebagai salah satu artis SM yang berasal dari keluarga kaya selain Siwon, Sungmin, Kyuhyun dan Sunny.
44. Tapi Sooyoung pernah ngeyel bilang bahwa sebenarnya keluarganya ga kaya. Setelah didesak terus oleh MC, akhirnya dia bilang bahwa yang kaya itu kakeknya.
45. Golongan darahnya adalah O.
46. Sooyoung adalah orang termuda yang memenangkan kuis Star Golden Bell.
47. Para antifans SNSD menamainya Anti’s Darling alias Kesayangan Antifans. Mereka bilang Sooyoung yang paling rendah hati dan natural. Pada intinya, Sooyoung memiliki antifans paling sedikit.
48. Di Forum STAND (forum antifans SNSD), thread Sooyoung adalah yang paling sepi.
49. Sooyoung adalah member SNSD yang tidak terkena skandal meskipun foto-fotonya dengan beberapa member DBSK beredar.
50. Sooyoung pernah ditanyai berapa orang cowok yang pernah naksir dia, dia jawab 5 orang. Tapi dia menambahkan, “Tapi mereka tidak benar-benar mencintaiku. Aku hanya digunakan untuk mengusir kesepian mereka.”
51. Waktu terlama dia menyukai seorang laki-laki adalah satu setengah bulan.
52. Di Star Golden Bell, Sooyoung pernah cerita bahwa dia pernah naksir cowok SMA waktu dia SMP. Dia menunggu cowok itu lewat di depan rumahnya setiap hari. Tapi akhirnya dia tahu bahwa cowok itu sudah punya pacar. Sooyoung pun menangis di kelasnya. Sooyoung juga bilang, “Cewek itu bahkan nggak lebih cantik daripadaku!”. Hehehe, dasar Sooyoung!
53. Di Sukira, Super Junior Eunhyuk pernah cerita bahwa Sooyoung pernah menyukainya saat dia masih trainee. Sooyoung cuma ketawa-ketawa aja waktu mendengarnya.
54. Motto hidupnya adalah “Jangan suka menunda-nunda!”.
55. Taeyeon pernah menyebut Sooyoung sebagai teman, adik, rekan dan suami sekaligus pada Rolling Paper di Maybee Radio.
56. Pada saat Taeyeon main musikal, Sooyoung mengirim karangan bunga yang bertuliskan, “Istriku, semangat ya!”.
57. Di ending lagu My Friend waktu tampil di Music Core, Sooyoung dan Taeyeon berlutut dengan wajah saling berhadapan dan menutup mulut mereka dengan tangan. Netizen mengira mereka ciuman! Kasus ini sempat bikin heboh dan jadi trending topic di Twitter.
58. Saat Taeyeon mengatakan ingin berhenti menjadi leader, Sooyoung adalah orang yang pertama mendatanginya dan menenangkannya. Di antara semua member, hanya Sooyoung yang menjadi tempat curahan hati Taeyeon.
59. Di Win Win, Sooyoung pernah mengatakan bahwa hubungannya dengan Tiffany waktu awal debut tidak begitu akrab. Tapi sekarang hubungan mereka sudah seperti suami-istri.
60. Kalau tidur, Sooyoung punya kebiasaan ngomong/ngelindur. Pernah waktu Seohyun membangunkannya, dia bilang “Urus saja urusanmu sendiri!”. Karena Seohyun takut, Seohyun minta bantuan Yuri. Dan dia bilang ke Yuri “Kau benar-benar mau mati ya?!”. Hehehe. Waktu Seohyun dan Yuri menceritakan ini dia malah bingung dan ga ingat kalau dia pernah bilang begitu.
61. Meski begitu, menurut Seohyun, Sooyoung adalah member yang paling mudah dibangunkan di pagi hari.
62. Sooyoung juga punya kebiasaan tidur lasak. Waktu masih di dorm yang lama dan sekamar dengan Taeyeon dan Yoona, Sooyoung sering berguling ke kanan dan kiri ke tempat tidur mereka berdua. Saking sebalnya Taeyeon, dia pernah menggeser tempat tidurnya sedikit. Tapi, hasilnya malah dia yang jatuh ke celah di antara tempat tidurnya dan Sooyoung itu.
63. Dia diberi julukan “Kim Yuna of the Entertainment Industry”.
64. Dia juga terpilih sebagai idol yang paling cantik saat memakai jeans.
65. Dia juga terpilih sebagai salah satu dari lima idol Korea yang memiliki kaki paling indah.
66. Dia terpilih di peringkat kelima sebagai idol yang cocok berkecimpung di dunia seni peran. Nomor tiga kalau hanya merangking idol perempuan.
67. Dia adalah satu-satunya orang Asia yang mendapat julukan sebagai “The Top 10 Barely Legal Hotties List of Complex Magazine” (terbit online 14 Juli 2009).
68. Dalam sebuah wawancara di Chosen, Sooyoung disebut sebagai member yang berperilaku paling baik dan dihormati.
69. Dalam wawancara yang sama, Yuri berkata, “Lebih daripada siapapun, Sooyoung adalah member yang paling dipercaya untuk membuat keputusan mana yang benar. Saat ada sesuatu yang orang lain tidak suka melakukannya, dia akan berdiri dan melakukannya. Dan jika ada suatu masalah, dia akan bangkit dan menyelesaikannya.”
70. Sooyoung menyanyikan lagu pembuka “I Am” versi Korea untuk kartun Inuyasha.
71. Sooyoung bilang dia sedih saat dinobatkan sebagai member yang paling ditakuti/bandel di dorm. “Aku sebenarnya sangat pendiam di dorm,” katanya.
72. Hyoyeon mendukung pernyataan Sooyoung dengan mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung adalah member yang paling patuh di dorm.
73. Sooyoung sangat menyayangi Maknae Seobaby. Dia selalu berbicara yang baik tentang Seohyun dan hampir selalu membiarkannya menang dalam setiap pertandingan yang mereka ikuti. Sooyoung juga sering terlihat menepuk punggung Seohyun untuk menenangkannya dalam berbagai reality show saat Seororo merasa malu.
74. Sooyoung adalah salah satu member yang paling penyayang. Mereka bersembilan tentu saja penyayang semua. Tapi Sooyoung adalah salah satu yang paling demonstarif. Dia juga hampir selalu menjadi orang pertama yang berlari untuk memeluk member lain untuk menenangkan mereka.
75. Dalam suatu Radio Bora, Sooyoung pernah menangis saat meminta Taeyeon dan Tiffany untuk tidak menutup diri pada mereka. Dia meminta Taeyeon dan Tiffany mendatanginya kalau mereka ada masalah karena kata Sooyoung keluarga mereka jauh (Tiffany di LA dan Taeyeon di Busan).
76. Sooyoung suka membaca novel Harry Potter.
77. Dia menyukai fotografi. Dia sering menjadikan member lain sebagai obyek fotonya. Karya-karyanya ditempelkan di pintu kulkas di dorm mereka.
78. Kalau pergi ke tempat karaoke (kabarnya SNSD suka ke tempat karaoke milik Super Junior Leeteuk karena mereka bisa gratis, hehe), Sooyoung bersama Yoona akan melepaskan sepatu mereka dan bernyanyi dan menari di sofa. Dan Sooyoung suka ga mau melepaskan mikrofon dari tangannya alias ga ngasi kesempatan yang lain buat nyayi.
79. Sooyoung juga dekat dengan mantan MC SGB, Kim Jaedong. Dia sering meminta Sooyoung jadi bintang tamu di acaranya. Mereka dekat karena sama-sama jadi MC di acara Fantasy Duo.
80. Di Yu Hueiyol Sketchbook, Sooyoung ditanyai, “Kapan Kau terakhir berbohong?”. Dia menjawab bahwa dia tidak pernah berbohong. Member-member lain menyetujuinya.
81. Dia adalah fans berat Brad Pitt. Tapi ibunya bilang dia tidak mau Sooyoung menikah dengan orang asing.
82. Selain Brad Pitt, dia juga suka dengan aktor Jo Insung, Lee Seunggi, Goh Soo dan penyanyi Jason Mraz.
83. Tentang Seunggi, setelah Sooyoung mengatakan bahwa dia menyukai Seunggi, Yoona juga mengatakan hal yang sama (kejadian ini ada di Hello Baby). Dalam acara lain, Seunggi disuruh memilih antara Sooyoung dan Yoona, dan dia memilih Yoona. Oh, poor Sooyoungie!!
84. Sooyoung adalah salah satu peminum terburuk di SNSD selain Jessica. Dia bisa menjadi pemarah. Tiffany pernah menceritakan hal ini di Win Win.
85. Meskipun dia dikenal sebagai gamer terbaik selain Sunny, Sunny pernah meledeknya karena Sooyoung membutuhkan waktu 30 menit untuk menghabiskan jamur dalam game Super Mario.
86. Dari fans meeting pertama SNSD, Seohyun mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung adalah member yang paling hafal semua gerakan koreografi (termasuk part member lain) sehingga dia sering dimintai bantuan saat latihan.
87. Saat menyetir, Sooyoung sering susah untuk membelokkan mobilnya. Harus ada seseorang untuk mengingatkannya. Kalau tidak, maka dia akan jalan lurus terus.
88. Dia adalah penggemar baseball. Pernah sekali dia bercanda mengatakan bahwa dia suka “Ya-dong” yang berarti film porno. Setelah itu dia mengoreksi bahwa maksudnya adalah “Ya-gu Dong-youngsang” alias video baseball. Sebenarnya waktu itu para member SNSD disuruh untuk mengatakan sesuatu yang bisa membuat orang lain terkejut. Meskipun Sooyoung bercanda, tapi gosip itu sempat meluas.
89. Banyak bukti Sooyoung sering menonton baseball. Bahkan dia pernah membuka acara pertandingan baseball bersama Yuri dengan melakukan pelemparan bola dan pemukulan pertama.
90. Sooyoung adalah member SNSD yang paling gampang menangis. Dia menangis saat ingat keluarganya. Saat hari terakhir syuting Factory Girl. Saat syuting MTV SNSD Special bersama keluarganya. Saat gurunya waktu kelas 5 SD datang di sebuah acara dimana dia jadi bintang tamu. Dan saat Ok Juhyun, mantan member Fink KL, mengatakan bahwa dia ingin menjadi sunbae yang baik. Ok Juhyun yang dekat dengan SNSD juga mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung sangat gampang menangis.
91. Ok Juhyun dan Tiffany mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung mirip dengan Jin, member Fin KL yang lain, karena mereka suka berdoa untuk mendapatkan suami setiap hari.
92. Ok Juhyun pernah merancang skenario kencan buta untuk Sooyoung. Sayangnya hal ini tidak berhasil. Menurut Sooyoung, saat ini mereka terlalu sibuk sehingga tidak sempat memikirkan punya pacar.
93. Pada Radio Shim Shim Tapa, Sooyoung pernah mengatakan bahwa dirinya adalah yang paling mudah bergaul dengan laki-laki.
94. Sementara itu, pada siaran radio yang sama, Tiffany justru mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung adalah member yang paling susah bergaul dengan laki-laki Menurut Tiffany, dia mengatakan itu karena Sooyoung tidak pernah mau menunjukkan sisi cantik dan feminimnya kecuali di depan laki-laki yang disukainya. Tiffany bahkan sampai gemas saat mengatakan bahwa Sooyoung yang asli itu sangat manis, baik dan cerdas. Tapi dia menutup-nutupinya karena belum ada orang yang disukainya sekarang.
95. Menurut Sooyoung, semua laki-laki yang dikenalnya akan dianggapnya sebagai Oppa (mengacu pada member-member Super Junior) atau dongsaeng.
96. Selain tidak mau memanggil 6 member yang lebih tua dengan panggilan “Unnie”, Sooyoung juga menolak memanggil SHINee Onew dengan panggilan “Oppa”.
97. Sooyoung memiliki beberapa kesamaan dengan Super Junior Siwon, SHINee Minho dan f(x) Sulli, dan kadang-kadang DBSK Changmin juga dimasukkan. Kesamaannya adalah:
Sama-sama bermarga Choi dan satu-satunya yang bermarga Choi di grup masing-masing
Sama-sama yang paling tinggi di grup masing-masing
Sama-sama good-looking
Karena itu mereka sering disebut sebagai “Choi Siblings”.
98. Siwon pernah mengatakan bahwa dia sering memperkenalkan Sooyoung sebagai sepupunya sementara Minho menyebut Sooyoung di thanks to part album Lucifer sebagai “My Noona”.
99. Sooyoung juga memiliki beberapa kesamaan dengan DBSK Changmin sehingga mereka sering dipasangkan karena hal ini:
Sama-sama yang paling tinggi di grup masing-masing (bahkan sebenarnya Changmin adalah idol laki-laki tertinggi di SM dan Sooyoung adalah idol perempuan tertinggi di SM)
Sama-sama shiksin (kalau Sooyoung adalah Dewi Makanan, maka Changmin adalah Dewa Makanan)
Changmin suka nonton film porno dan Sooyoung, gara-gara becandaan yang sudah disebutkan di atas, juga “dituduh” suka film porno
Sama-sama sering dikatakan memiliki wajah yang tidak terlalu Korea
100. Dia adalah member yang underrated bersama dengan Sunny, Seohyun dan Hyoyeon.
101. Dia bisa makan 3 sendok es krim dalam 5 menit.
102. Sahabat Sooyoung adalah kakaknya, Soojin.
103. Dia naksir berat sama Jo Insung dan Lee Sueng Gi.
104. Ketika ia masih di sekolah menengah, dia menyukai seorang pria tertentu yang di Hari Valentine dan dia berencana memberinya coklat. Ketika hari besar tiba, ia begitu malu untuk mengungkapkan perasaan-perasaannya hingga akhirnya ia tidak jadi memberikan coklat itu dan membawanya pulang.
105. Seorang anggota TRAX mengajarkan cara bermain drum sementara Sungmin mengajarkan cara bermain gitar.
106. Dia bisa berbahasa Korea, Jepang, dan sedikit bahasa Inggris.
107. Tempat favoritnya untuk dikunjungi adalah Amerika Serikat.
108. Dia juga dekat berteman dengan Jaeson Ma (pendeta / musisi) dan Vanness Wu.
109. Dia menyukai kubis pedas.
110. Musim favoritnya adalah Winter.
111. Lagu favoritnya dari SNSD adalah “Complete”.
112. Warna favoritnya adalah pink. Tapi, berdasarkan pada wawancara terbaru dari majalah Vivi, tampak bahwa dia telah berubah warna favoritnya dari pink sampai hitam.
113. Es krim favoritnya adalah rasa chocomint.
114. Selain Sungmin, ia juga dekat dengan hampir seluruh anggota Super Junior.
115. Sooyoung adalah penggemar Harry Potter.
116. Dia adalah penggemar dari drama jepang “Hana Yori Dango”.
117. Sooyoung dapat meniru tanda tangan anggota SNSD lainnya dengan baik. Tanda tangan yang paling sulit untuk ditiru baginya adalah Jessica.
Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva (Russian: Елена Вячеславовна Дементьева, Russian pronunciation: [jɪˈlʲenə dʲɪˈmʲentʲjɪvə] ; born 15 October 1981) is a retired[1] Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 3, which was accomplished on 6 April 2009. She announced her retirement on 29 October 2010, after her final match at the 2010 WTA Tour Championships. Dementieva ended her career ranked World No. 9.
2001 was the second straight year in which Dementieva finished in the WTA's top 20. During the year, she became the top-ranked Russian player, a position previously held by Anna Kournikova since December 1997. Dementieva, however, suffered a shoulder injury in Australia. To keep playing matches, she altered her serve, adding slice and changing her motion. After her shoulder healed, her service motion stayed the same. She had double faulted as many as 19 times in a match and hit 50 mph first and second serves. In 2002, Dementieva and her partner Janette Husárová of Slovakia reached the final of the US Open and won the year-ending WTA Tour Championships. In singles, Dementieva defeated a top ranked player for the first time, beating world No. 1 Martina Hingis 6–2, 6–2 in a quarterfinal in Moscow. Dementieva reached the final of that tournament, losing to Jelena Dokić.
Dementieva at the Canadian Open in 2002.Dementieva played the most tournaments among year-end top 10 players (27) and won US$869,740 in prize money. At the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, she won her first WTA Tour title, defeating Amanda Coetzer, World No. 9 Daniela Hantuchová, World No. 4 Justine Henin and World No. 5 Lindsay Davenport. Dementieva was the lowest seed (10th) to win the tournament in its 24-year history.[citation needed] She also won back-to-back titles in Bali and Shanghai, defeating Chanda Rubin in both finals. Dementieva finished the year in the top 10 for the first time (World No. 8). In addition, she reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon doubles with compatriot Lina Krasnoroutskaya, beating the Venus and Serena Williams team along the way.
In May at the French Open, Dementieva reached her first Grand Slam final, defeating former top ranked Lindsay Davenport in the fourth round, Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals and Paola Suárez in the semifinals, all in straight sets. Dementieva lost to compatriot Myskina in the first all-Russian Grand Slam final, 6–1, 6–2. Previous female Russian Grand Slam finalists had been: Dementieva's coach at the time, Olga Morozova, at 1974's French Open and Wimbledon, followed by Natalia Zvereva at the 1988 French Open.
Later that year at the US Open, after first round losses at Wimbledon to Sandra Kleinová and the 2004 Summer Olympics to eventual bronze-medalist Alicia Molik, Dementieva reached her second Grand Slam final, defeating Mauresmo and Jennifer Capriati en route, both in third set tie-breaks. Countrywoman Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Dementieva in straight sets in the final, becoming the third consecutive Russian Grand Slam winner. Following the US Open, Dementieva won her first title in Hasselt and reached the Moscow finals for the second time, losing to Myskina.
Following the US Open, Dementieva helped Russia repeat as Fed Cup champions, beating France 3–2 in the final. All three points came from Dementieva, as she avenged her loss to Pierce at the US Open, beat Mauresmo, and then won the deciding doubles match with partner Dinara Safina. At the WTA Tour Championships, Dementieva lost all three round robin matches against Mauresmo, Pierce, and Kim Clijsters with the same score each time: 6–2, 6–3.
Dementieva playing the first round of the 2006 US Open.After losing to Kim Clijsters in an exhibition in Hong Kong, she lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Julia Schruff. But immediately following that tournament, Dementieva won her first Tier I event, the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. On the run to the title, she defeated Katarina Srebotnik, Nicole Vaidišová, and Anastasia Myskina, all in three sets. She then defeated the resurgent Martina Hingis, with Hingis saying after the match, "If she played like that all the time, she'd win Grand Slams". At the Pacific Life Open, despite double faulting 79 times in six matches, Dementieva reached the final. She defeated rising stars Sania Mirza, Ana Ivanović, and Na Li along the way. Dementieva then upset Justine Henin in a semifinal 2–6, 7–5, 7–5. The victory was her fourth three set match of the tournament, and fatigue contributed to her 6–1, 6–2 loss to Maria Sharapova in the final.
At the French Open she was upset in the third round by Shahar Pe'er 6–4, 7–5. On grass, Dementieva reached the s'Hertogenbosch semifinals, losing to Michaëlla Krajicek despite holding a match point. Dementieva then reached her first Wimbledon quarter-final before losing to fourth seeded Sharapova 6–1, 6–4. In August, Dementieva won the tournament in Los Angeles by defeating Jelena Janković in the final 6–3, 4–6, 6–4. En route to her sixth career title, she defeated everyone who had beaten (or, in the case of the US Open, would beat) her at the 2006 Grand Slam tournaments – Schruff in the second round, Peer in the third round, Sharapova in a semifinal (for the first time since 2003), and Janković in the final.
At the 2006 US Open, Dementieva reached the quarterfinals for the fourth time, losing to Janković 6–2, 6–1. The three games she won were all breaks of serve. Dementieva remarked afterwards, "Yeah, it is disappointing, you know. I'm getting older, and I haven't won a Grand Slam, so that's really what I'm thinking about all the time. I feel like I was in a good shape here. That's why it's sad". [1]. She relinquished to Sharapova, who won the tournament, the distinction of being the Russian player to have won the most career prize money. Dementieva qualified for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships for the seventh straight time, the only active player to do so. She lost to all three players in her round robin group: Sharapova 6–1, 6–4; Svetlana Kuznetsova 7–5, 6–3; and Clijsters 6–4, 6–0. Her career win-loss record at this tournament fell to 3–14. She had lost her last nine matches played there.
In the fall, Dementieva reached two successive quarterfinals in Beijing and Stuttgart. At the latter event, Dementieva defeated Amélie Mauresmo and Daniela Hantuchová before losing to World No. 1 Justine Henin in the quarterfinals. In the final of the Tier I Kremlin Cup in Moscow, Dementieva, being unseeded, defeated Serena Williams for the first time in her career. Winning the title in Moscow returned Dementieva to the top 10 at World No. 10 for one week. Her first round loss at the Zurich Open the following week, however, caused her ranking to fall to World No. 11. 2007 was the first year since 2002 that Dementieva did not finish the year in the top 10, and did not secure a spot at the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships.
Elena Dementieva at 2008 Qatar Telecom German Open.At the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Dementieva lost in the quarterfinals to Jelena Janković. This performance caused her ranking to rise to World No. 8. At the Tier I Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, Dementieva lost in the semifinals to compatriot Vera Zvonareva dropping her ranking to World No. 9. Dementieva was the seventh-seeded player at the Tier I Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin but reached the final, where she lost to 13th-seeded Dinara Safina. Dementieva defeated fourth-seeded Janković in the quarterfinals and second-seeded Ivanović in the semifinals. Dementieva's win over Ivanović was her fourth in four career matches with her.
Dementieva's next tournament was the Istanbul Cup in Istanbul, Turkey where Dementieva was the top seed and defending champion. She reached the final but was unsuccessful in her attempt to win a singles title at the same tournament in consecutive years, which would have been a career first. Agnieszka Radwańska of Poland defeated Dementieva in the final. At the French Open, Dementieva defeated eleventh-seeded Zvonareva in the fourth round 6–4, 1–6, 6–2, but lost her quarterfinal match against Safina 4–6, 7–6(5), 6–0 after Dementieva had a match point while leading 5–2 in the second set.
Dementieva and Vladimir Putin in 2008.At the grass court Ordina Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, Dementieva was the top-seeded player but lost in the semifinals to Safina 6–3, 6–2. Dementieva was seeded fifth at the Wimbledon. In the second round, she trailed Timea Bacsinszky 3–0 in the third set before winning the last six games of the match. In the fourth round, she defeated Israel's Shahar Pe'er to become the highest seeded woman left in the draw after the early round defeats of first seeded Ivanović, second seeded Janković, third seeded Sharapova, and fourth seeded Kuznetsova. In the quarterfinals, Dementieva held on to defeat Russian compatriot Nadia Petrova 6–1, 6–7, 6–3 after Dementieva failed to hold serve while serving for the match in the second set at 5–1 and 5–3. In her first Wimbledon semifinal and her first Grand Slam semifinal since the 2005 US Open, Dementieva lost to eventual champion Venus Williams 6–1, 7–6(3).
Dementieva played three hard court tournaments during the summer and was seeded fifth at all three. She began her summer season by losing to Dominika Cibulková 6–4, 6–2 in the second round of the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal. At the Beijing Olympics, Dementieva was down a set and a break before defeating fourth-seeded Serena Williams in the quarterfinals 3–6, 6–4, 6–3. She then defeated compatriot Zvonareva in the semifinals and Safina in the three set final to win the gold medal.
Elena Dementieva at 2008 WTA Tour Championships.At the US Open, Dementieva was one of six players with the opportunity to be ranked World No. 1 upon completion of the tournament. Dementieva defeated Schnyder in the quarterfinals but lost to Janković in the semifinals 6–4, 6–4. Dementieva was up a break in each set but committed 42 unforced errors and lost each of her last five service games. Nevertheless, her ranking improved to World No. 4 for the first time since 2004.
At the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Dementieva was seeded third and qualified for the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships with a second-round victory against Alizé Cornet. However, she was upset in the quarterfinals by Katarina Srebotnik. At the Tier II Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Dementieva was seeded fourth. She easily won her first match by defeating Sybille Bammer 6–1, 6–4, but was upset in the quarterfinals by Victoria Azarenka 7–6(6), 3–6, 6–1. Defending her title at the Kremlin Cup, Dementieva was seeded third. She defeated Katarina Srebotnik in the second round and Nadia Petrova in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, she faced Jelena Janković. She won the first set easily 6–0, but only managed to win one game after that, losing the next two sets 6–1, 6–0. She committed 31 unforced errors in the second and third set. She won her next event though, the Fortis Championships Luxembourg, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in three sets in the final.
At the WTA Tour Championships held in Doha, Qatar, Dementieva was seeded fourth. In her first round robin match, she lost her first match to Venus Williams, before defeating Dinara Safina in the second. After Serena Williams withdrew from the tournament, Dementieva played Nadia Petrova and defeated her to reach the knock-out stage. In the semifinals, she lost to Vera Zvonareva 7–6(7), 3–6, 6–3.
Dementieva at the 2009 Australian OpenDementieva was seeded fourth at the Australian Open and was one of three players who had a chance of being ranked World No. 1 at the end of this tournament. Dementieva's 15-match winning streak ended in the semifinals when she lost to Serena Williams 6–3, 6–4 after Dementieva had led 3–0 in the second set.
Playing for Russia in Fed Cup in Moscow, Dementieva defeated Zhang Shuai 6–3, 6–0, helping Russia to an emphatic 5–0 win over the Chinese.
At the Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris, Dementieva advanced to her third final of the year. Amélie Mauresmo then defeated Dementieva in the final in three sets. At the Premier 5 Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, Dementieva became the 27th woman during the open era to record 500 career singles victories after defeating Sybille Bammer in the first round. She lost however to Venus Williams in the quarterfinals 6–3, 6–3.
Dementieva's next tournament was the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, which was the first Premier Mandatory event of the year. After receiving a bye in the first round, she was upset by the Czech Republic's Petra Cetkovská 7–6(2), 2–6, 6–1. At the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, another Premier Mandatory event, Dementieva was seeded fourth but committed 45 unforced errors while losing to 13th seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round 7–5, 6–4. Despite the loss, she achieved her highest career singles ranking of World No. 3. By reaching the Top 3, she became the sixth Russian to do so.[7]
Dementieva began the spring clay court season at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, a Premier event on the tour. She lost there in the semifinals Wozniacki 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 in a nearly three hour match.[8] Dementieva survived a 2–5 deficit in the second set and saved three consecutive match points on her own serve at 3–5 in that set.[8] At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany, another Premier event, she reached her second consecutive semifinal where she lost to the eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 6–2. Dementieva was seeded 3rd for the 2009 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open but was upset by former world no. 1 Amélie Mauresmo in the third round by 1–6, 6–4, 6–2. At the French Open, Dementieva lost to Samantha Stosur in the third round, 6–3, 4–6, 6–1.[9]
Dementieva at the 2009 Cincinnati Women's OpenAs preparation for Wimbledon, Dementieva took part at the AEGON International in Eastbourne. Seeded first, she was upset in the second round by the eventual finalist Virginie Razzano 6–0, 3–6, 7–6(4). Seeded 4th at Wimbledon, Dementieva easily reached the semi-final dropping only 20 games en route. In her second consecutive Wimbledon semi-final, Dementieva played out a thriller against the No. 2 seed and eventual champion Serena Williams. In a high quality contest, Dementieva held a single match point at 5–4 in the third set but eventually lost the match 6–7(4), 7–5, 8–6 in the longest Wimbledon semifinal of the open era. The match was widely heralded as the best women's match of 2009.
In the lead up to the U.S. Open, Dementieva took part in three tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California, she advanced to the semi-final defeating Daniela Hantuchová en route. In the semis, Dementieva was crushed by Venus Williams 6–0, 6–1. At the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati, she defeated Yanina Wickmayer and Caroline Wozniacki to reach the semifinal. In a bizarre match, Dementieva the fell to Jelena Janković, 6–7(2), 6–0, 6–7(6), despite leading 6–2 in the final set tiebreak having already saved three match points herself prior. At the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Dementieva defeated Serena Williams 7–6(2), 6–1 to reach her fourth final of the year. In the final, she defeated an unseeded Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–3 in the final to win her third title of the year and 14th of her career.[10] As a result of her performances in these three tournaments, Dementieva secured the US Open Series crown. Entering the US Open as one of the favourites, Dementieva suffered a shock loss to the World No. 70 Melanie Oudin, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3.[11]
In 2009 after the US Open, Elena was awarded the Order of Honour by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin in Moscow. The Order of Honor is awarded to Russian citizens for high achievements in government, economic production, scientific research, sociocultural, public and charitable activities which essentially made it possible to improve conditions of life in the country, for merits in training highly skilled personnel, training the growing up generation, and the maintenance of legality and law. The Order of Honor is worn on the left side of the chest; when other orders of the Russian Federation are present, it is located after orders awarded for military merits.[12]
On 14 September, Dementieva became one of eight women to qualify for the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar. At the Premier 5 Toray Pan Pacific Open, she lost in the second round to Kateryna Bondarenko 6–2, 6–7(2), 6–1. Dementieva's next tournament was the Premier Mandatory China Open. She defeated Li Na on her way to the quarter-finals before losing in straight sets to Agnieszka Radwańska.
At the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, Dementieva won her first round robin match in the Maroon group against Venus after trailing 3–6, 1–3 in the second set by 3–6, 7–6(6), 6–2. She then suffered two consecutive losses, to Serena in her second round robin match by 2–6, 4–6, then to Svetlana Kuznetsova, by 3–6, 2–6. Because of this, she failed to reach to the semi-finals.
Dementieva finished 2009 as the world number 5, one spot lower from 2008 year end ranking. The highlights of her career this year included winning Auckland, Sydney and Toronto and reaching the semis at the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
2010: Final year
Dementieva at the 2010 Hopman CupDementieva began the year representing Russia in the Hopman Cup partnering Igor Andreev. She lost her opening match in the Round Robin stage to Sabine Lisicki before defeating Yaroslava Shvedova and Laura Robson. However, Russia failed to make the final as they finished third in group B.
Dementieva's first tournament and tour title of the year came at the Medibank International, where she was also the defending champion. She defeated world no. 1 Serena Williams 6–3 6–2 in the final, successfully defending her title. En route to the final she defeated fellow Russian and world no. 2 Dinara Safina as well as the world no. 6 Victoria Azarenka, in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively, winning in straight sets on both occasions. She is the first woman since Martina Hingis in 2001 and 2002 to win the Medibank International in consecutive years.
Dementieva was seeded fifth at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam event of the year. She defeated Vera Dushevina of Russia in the 1st round. In the second round she lost to wild card, former World No. 1, and eventual finalist Justine Henin of Belgium, 5–7, 6–7 (6), despite having 2 set points in the first set, and one set point at 6–5 in the second set tie-break.
Dementieva's next tournament was the Open GDF Suez in Paris where she advanced to the final for the second consecutive year. In her second final of the year, she came from a set down to defeat Lucie Šafářová 6–7(5), 6–1, 6–4.
Dementieva was then the fifth seed at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai. She retired against Daniela Hantuchová in the second round because of shoulder injury while trailing 6–4, 1–1. Dementieva then played at the inaugural Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Seeded first, she advanced to her third final of the year where she fell in straight sets to Alisa Kleybanova, 6–3, 6–2.
Dementieva then took part in the Premier Mandatory events in North America. At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Dementieva lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals, 6–4, 6–3. The following week at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, she lost in the second Round to Justine Henin, 6–3, 6–2.
Dementieva represented Russia in the semifinal round of the 2010 Fed Cup against the United States. She defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Melanie Oudin in her two singes matches. In the deciding doubles match, Dementieva and Alla Kudryavtseva fell to Mattek-Sands and Liezel Huber 6–3, 6–1.
At the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where Dementieva was the sixth seed, she lost in the third round to a resurgent Ana Ivanović for the first time, 6–1, 7–6(5). She then played at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, where she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the first round, 6–0, 6–1. She lost to Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania in the second round 6–1, 3–6, 7–5 even after serving for the match. Despite the loss, Dementieva managed to be the Russian No.1 for the first time in her career.
Dementieva's next tournament was the Warsaw Open. As a second seed and receiving a bye in the first round, she lost to Tsvetana Pironkova in a nearly 3-hour match, 5–7, 6–4, 4–6.
Dementieva was the fifth seed at the French Open. She defeated Petra Martić of Croatia in the first round 6–1, 6–1 and Anabel Medina Garrigues in the second round 6–2, 7–6. Despite clear injuries, she managed to come from a set down and breaks down in the second and third sets to defeat Aleksandra Wozniak in the third round and ran past Chanelle Scheepers in the fourth round. She booked her place in the semi-finals of the tournament, where she faced Italian 17th seed Francesca Schiavone, after comeback from a set down to win over compatriot Nadia Petrova in the quarterfinals. She retired after Schiavone won the first set in a tie break with a torn left calf muscle which was sustained in the second round, and subsequently withdrew from Eastbourne and Wimbledon.[13]
Dementieva at the 2010 US OpenDementieva started her hard court campaign at Bank of the West Classic at Stanford, California, where she was the second seeded. She advanced to the quarterfinals where she fell to Maria Sharapova in three sets. She fell to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second round at Cincinnati. She will not repeat as champion at the Rogers Cup after suffering a 7–6(3), 6–4 loss to Chinesewoman Zheng Jie in the third round. She lost to Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals at New Haven despite serving for the match at 5–4 in the third set.
Dementieva was the 12th seed at the US Open. She defeated Olga Govortsova, Sybille Bammer, and 24th seed Daniela Hantuchová to advance to the 4th round where she wasted four match points before falling to 5th seed Samantha Stosur.
As the 7th seed, Dementieva reached the finals of the 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open where she faced top seed Caroline Wozniacki. Dementieva defeated Yaroslava Shvedova, Flavia Pennetta, 2nd seed Vera Zvonareva, and 5th seed Francesca Schiavone but eventually lost to top seed Wozniacki. At the China Open, she suffering a 7–6(2), 7–6(4) loss to Serbian Ana Ivanović in the third round.
On 9 October 2010, it was announced that Dementieva had qualified for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships for the tenth time in her career.[14]
Dementieva's final event of the year was the WTA Tour Championships, where she qualified for the third consecutive year, as the No. 7 seed. Dementieva was still struggling with her ankle injury. As a member of the Maroon Group, Dementieva fell to Caroline Wozniacki 6–1, 6–1, defeated Samantha Stosur 4–6, 6–4, 7–6(4). Dementieva then faced Francesca Schiavone, and lost 6–4, 6–2.
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[edit] Early and personal life
Dementieva was born in Moscow to Viatcheslav, an electrical engineer, and Vera, a teacher—both recreational tennis players. She was rejected by Dynamo Sports Club and the Central Red Army Tennis Club at the age of 7, before enrolling at Spartak Tennis Club, where she was coached for 3 years by Rauza Islanova, the mother of Marat Safin and Dinara Safina. She then moved to the Central Red Army Club with Sergei Pashkov, when she was 11. She was later coached by her mother Vera and her older brother Vsevolod. She has homes in Monaco, Moscow and Boca Raton, Florida. Dementieva enjoys snowboarding, baseball, reading and traveling.[2][3] On 16 July 2011, Dementieva married hockey player Maxim Afinogenov in Moscow.[4][edit] Tennis career
[edit] Early career
Dementieva played and won her first international tournament, Les Petits As, in France at the age of 13. In 1997, she entered the WTA top 500. She turned professional in 1998 and entered the top 100 in 1999.[edit] 1999–2002: Professional debut
In 1999, Dementieva represented Russia in the Fed Cup final against the United States, scoring Russia's only point when she upset Venus Williams 1–6, 6–3, 7–6(5), recovering from a 4–1 third set deficit. She played her first Grand Slam main draws, qualifying for the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, along with receiving a direct entry into the US Open. She reached the second round at the Australian Open and French Open, made a first round exit at Wimbledon and reached the third round of the US Open. In 2000, she entered the top 20 by winning more than 40 singles matches for the second straight year and earned more than U.S. $600,000. She became the first woman from Russia to reach the US Open semifinals, where she lost to Lindsay Davenport. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Dementieva won the silver medal, losing to Venus Williams in the gold medal match 6–2, 6–4. In 2000, Dementieva was named the WTA tour's Most Improved Player.2001 was the second straight year in which Dementieva finished in the WTA's top 20. During the year, she became the top-ranked Russian player, a position previously held by Anna Kournikova since December 1997. Dementieva, however, suffered a shoulder injury in Australia. To keep playing matches, she altered her serve, adding slice and changing her motion. After her shoulder healed, her service motion stayed the same. She had double faulted as many as 19 times in a match and hit 50 mph first and second serves. In 2002, Dementieva and her partner Janette Husárová of Slovakia reached the final of the US Open and won the year-ending WTA Tour Championships. In singles, Dementieva defeated a top ranked player for the first time, beating world No. 1 Martina Hingis 6–2, 6–2 in a quarterfinal in Moscow. Dementieva reached the final of that tournament, losing to Jelena Dokić.
[edit] 2003: Top ten debut
[edit] 2004: First Grand Slam final
Dementieva's breakthrough year was 2004. In Miami, she defeated Venus Williams in the quarterfinals and Nadia Petrova in the semifinals. Dementieva then lost to the top-seeded and two-time defending champion Serena Williams 6–1, 6–1. On 5 April, she reached her highest singles ranking at sixth in the world. With fifth-ranked Anastasia Myskina and ninth-ranked Petrova, it was the first time that three Russians appeared in the Women's Tennis Association top 10 simultaneously.In May at the French Open, Dementieva reached her first Grand Slam final, defeating former top ranked Lindsay Davenport in the fourth round, Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals and Paola Suárez in the semifinals, all in straight sets. Dementieva lost to compatriot Myskina in the first all-Russian Grand Slam final, 6–1, 6–2. Previous female Russian Grand Slam finalists had been: Dementieva's coach at the time, Olga Morozova, at 1974's French Open and Wimbledon, followed by Natalia Zvereva at the 1988 French Open.
Later that year at the US Open, after first round losses at Wimbledon to Sandra Kleinová and the 2004 Summer Olympics to eventual bronze-medalist Alicia Molik, Dementieva reached her second Grand Slam final, defeating Mauresmo and Jennifer Capriati en route, both in third set tie-breaks. Countrywoman Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Dementieva in straight sets in the final, becoming the third consecutive Russian Grand Slam winner. Following the US Open, Dementieva won her first title in Hasselt and reached the Moscow finals for the second time, losing to Myskina.
[edit] 2005–2006: Continued form
In 2005, Dementieva reached six semifinals, the most important being at the US Open. She also reached the final in Charleston, losing to Justine Henin, and Philadelphia, losing to Amélie Mauresmo despite serving for the match at 5–4 in the third set. In the quarterfinals of the US Open, Dementieva defeated top ranked Lindsay Davenport 6–1, 3–6, 7–6(6) for her second victory over a current No. 1 player. In the semifinals, she lost to Mary Pierce 3–6, 6–2, 6–2. The momentum of the match with Pierce changed in Pierce's favor when, with Dementieva up a set, Pierce received 12 minutes of on-court medical treatment. Partnering Flavia Pennetta of Italy, Dementieva reached her second doubles final at the US Open.Following the US Open, Dementieva helped Russia repeat as Fed Cup champions, beating France 3–2 in the final. All three points came from Dementieva, as she avenged her loss to Pierce at the US Open, beat Mauresmo, and then won the deciding doubles match with partner Dinara Safina. At the WTA Tour Championships, Dementieva lost all three round robin matches against Mauresmo, Pierce, and Kim Clijsters with the same score each time: 6–2, 6–3.
At the French Open she was upset in the third round by Shahar Pe'er 6–4, 7–5. On grass, Dementieva reached the s'Hertogenbosch semifinals, losing to Michaëlla Krajicek despite holding a match point. Dementieva then reached her first Wimbledon quarter-final before losing to fourth seeded Sharapova 6–1, 6–4. In August, Dementieva won the tournament in Los Angeles by defeating Jelena Janković in the final 6–3, 4–6, 6–4. En route to her sixth career title, she defeated everyone who had beaten (or, in the case of the US Open, would beat) her at the 2006 Grand Slam tournaments – Schruff in the second round, Peer in the third round, Sharapova in a semifinal (for the first time since 2003), and Janković in the final.
At the 2006 US Open, Dementieva reached the quarterfinals for the fourth time, losing to Janković 6–2, 6–1. The three games she won were all breaks of serve. Dementieva remarked afterwards, "Yeah, it is disappointing, you know. I'm getting older, and I haven't won a Grand Slam, so that's really what I'm thinking about all the time. I feel like I was in a good shape here. That's why it's sad". [1]. She relinquished to Sharapova, who won the tournament, the distinction of being the Russian player to have won the most career prize money. Dementieva qualified for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships for the seventh straight time, the only active player to do so. She lost to all three players in her round robin group: Sharapova 6–1, 6–4; Svetlana Kuznetsova 7–5, 6–3; and Clijsters 6–4, 6–0. Her career win-loss record at this tournament fell to 3–14. She had lost her last nine matches played there.
[edit] 2007: Dropping out of the top 10
Dementieva won two titles, reached three semifinals and five quarterfinals, and reached the fourth round at the Australian Open. After her first semifinal of the year at the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Dementieva suffered a rib fracture in Antwerp and was off the tour for nine weeks, leaving the top 10 in April for the first time in nearly four years. Dementieva won her fourth event back on tour at the Tier III event in Istanbul, her first career singles title on red clay. She was upset in the third round of the French Open by Marion Bartoli the following week. Three weeks later, she lost to Bartoli again in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Eastbourne, United Kingdom 6–1, 6–0. At the J&S Cup in Warsaw, she lost to Venus Williams. She lost in the third round of Wimbledon to Tamira Paszek 3–6, 6–2, 6–3. During the North American summer hard court season, she reached the semifinals of the tournaments in San Diego and New Haven, Connecticut and the quarterfinals of the tournament in Los Angeles, but lost early at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Toronto and at the US Open. By the end of the summer, Dementieva had fallen to World No. 20, her lowest ranking since 2002.In the fall, Dementieva reached two successive quarterfinals in Beijing and Stuttgart. At the latter event, Dementieva defeated Amélie Mauresmo and Daniela Hantuchová before losing to World No. 1 Justine Henin in the quarterfinals. In the final of the Tier I Kremlin Cup in Moscow, Dementieva, being unseeded, defeated Serena Williams for the first time in her career. Winning the title in Moscow returned Dementieva to the top 10 at World No. 10 for one week. Her first round loss at the Zurich Open the following week, however, caused her ranking to fall to World No. 11. 2007 was the first year since 2002 that Dementieva did not finish the year in the top 10, and did not secure a spot at the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships.
[edit] 2008: Resurgence
At Dementieva's first tournament of the season, the Medibank International in Sydney, she lost in the first round to Sofia Arvidsson 6–1, 7–5. She then reached the fourth round of the Australian Open before losing to eventual champion Maria Sharapova 6–2, 6–0. Dementieva then travelled to Paris for the Tier II Open Gaz de France indoor tournament. She reached the semifinals before succumbing to seventh-seeded Ágnes Szávay from Hungary 6–3, 1–6, 7–5. Dementieva then won the Tier II, US$1.5 million Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, defeating second-seeded compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final. This was Dementieva's fourth career Tier II tournament title but her first since 2006. Along the way, she defeated Patty Schnyder, Alyona Bondarenko, World No. 2 Ana Ivanović, and Francesca Schiavone (who defeated World No. 1 and defending champion Justine Henin in the quarterfinals).
Dementieva's next tournament was the Istanbul Cup in Istanbul, Turkey where Dementieva was the top seed and defending champion. She reached the final but was unsuccessful in her attempt to win a singles title at the same tournament in consecutive years, which would have been a career first. Agnieszka Radwańska of Poland defeated Dementieva in the final. At the French Open, Dementieva defeated eleventh-seeded Zvonareva in the fourth round 6–4, 1–6, 6–2, but lost her quarterfinal match against Safina 4–6, 7–6(5), 6–0 after Dementieva had a match point while leading 5–2 in the second set.
Dementieva played three hard court tournaments during the summer and was seeded fifth at all three. She began her summer season by losing to Dominika Cibulková 6–4, 6–2 in the second round of the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal. At the Beijing Olympics, Dementieva was down a set and a break before defeating fourth-seeded Serena Williams in the quarterfinals 3–6, 6–4, 6–3. She then defeated compatriot Zvonareva in the semifinals and Safina in the three set final to win the gold medal.
At the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Dementieva was seeded third and qualified for the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships with a second-round victory against Alizé Cornet. However, she was upset in the quarterfinals by Katarina Srebotnik. At the Tier II Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Dementieva was seeded fourth. She easily won her first match by defeating Sybille Bammer 6–1, 6–4, but was upset in the quarterfinals by Victoria Azarenka 7–6(6), 3–6, 6–1. Defending her title at the Kremlin Cup, Dementieva was seeded third. She defeated Katarina Srebotnik in the second round and Nadia Petrova in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, she faced Jelena Janković. She won the first set easily 6–0, but only managed to win one game after that, losing the next two sets 6–1, 6–0. She committed 31 unforced errors in the second and third set. She won her next event though, the Fortis Championships Luxembourg, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in three sets in the final.
At the WTA Tour Championships held in Doha, Qatar, Dementieva was seeded fourth. In her first round robin match, she lost her first match to Venus Williams, before defeating Dinara Safina in the second. After Serena Williams withdrew from the tournament, Dementieva played Nadia Petrova and defeated her to reach the knock-out stage. In the semifinals, she lost to Vera Zvonareva 7–6(7), 3–6, 6–3.
[edit] 2009: Career-high no. 3 ranking
Dementieva began her season by winning the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. Seeded first, she reached the final where she defeated unseeded Elena Vesnina in the final in straight sets.[5] The following week at the Medibank International in Sydney, Dementieva defeated Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals and upset top-seeded Serena Williams in the semifinals 6–3, 6–1. She then won her second consecutive tournament by defeating compatriot and second-seeded Dinara Safina in the final.[6]
Playing for Russia in Fed Cup in Moscow, Dementieva defeated Zhang Shuai 6–3, 6–0, helping Russia to an emphatic 5–0 win over the Chinese.
At the Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris, Dementieva advanced to her third final of the year. Amélie Mauresmo then defeated Dementieva in the final in three sets. At the Premier 5 Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, Dementieva became the 27th woman during the open era to record 500 career singles victories after defeating Sybille Bammer in the first round. She lost however to Venus Williams in the quarterfinals 6–3, 6–3.
Dementieva's next tournament was the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, which was the first Premier Mandatory event of the year. After receiving a bye in the first round, she was upset by the Czech Republic's Petra Cetkovská 7–6(2), 2–6, 6–1. At the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, another Premier Mandatory event, Dementieva was seeded fourth but committed 45 unforced errors while losing to 13th seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round 7–5, 6–4. Despite the loss, she achieved her highest career singles ranking of World No. 3. By reaching the Top 3, she became the sixth Russian to do so.[7]
Dementieva began the spring clay court season at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, a Premier event on the tour. She lost there in the semifinals Wozniacki 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 in a nearly three hour match.[8] Dementieva survived a 2–5 deficit in the second set and saved three consecutive match points on her own serve at 3–5 in that set.[8] At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany, another Premier event, she reached her second consecutive semifinal where she lost to the eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 6–2. Dementieva was seeded 3rd for the 2009 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open but was upset by former world no. 1 Amélie Mauresmo in the third round by 1–6, 6–4, 6–2. At the French Open, Dementieva lost to Samantha Stosur in the third round, 6–3, 4–6, 6–1.[9]
In the lead up to the U.S. Open, Dementieva took part in three tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California, she advanced to the semi-final defeating Daniela Hantuchová en route. In the semis, Dementieva was crushed by Venus Williams 6–0, 6–1. At the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati, she defeated Yanina Wickmayer and Caroline Wozniacki to reach the semifinal. In a bizarre match, Dementieva the fell to Jelena Janković, 6–7(2), 6–0, 6–7(6), despite leading 6–2 in the final set tiebreak having already saved three match points herself prior. At the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Dementieva defeated Serena Williams 7–6(2), 6–1 to reach her fourth final of the year. In the final, she defeated an unseeded Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–3 in the final to win her third title of the year and 14th of her career.[10] As a result of her performances in these three tournaments, Dementieva secured the US Open Series crown. Entering the US Open as one of the favourites, Dementieva suffered a shock loss to the World No. 70 Melanie Oudin, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3.[11]
In 2009 after the US Open, Elena was awarded the Order of Honour by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin in Moscow. The Order of Honor is awarded to Russian citizens for high achievements in government, economic production, scientific research, sociocultural, public and charitable activities which essentially made it possible to improve conditions of life in the country, for merits in training highly skilled personnel, training the growing up generation, and the maintenance of legality and law. The Order of Honor is worn on the left side of the chest; when other orders of the Russian Federation are present, it is located after orders awarded for military merits.[12]
On 14 September, Dementieva became one of eight women to qualify for the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar. At the Premier 5 Toray Pan Pacific Open, she lost in the second round to Kateryna Bondarenko 6–2, 6–7(2), 6–1. Dementieva's next tournament was the Premier Mandatory China Open. She defeated Li Na on her way to the quarter-finals before losing in straight sets to Agnieszka Radwańska.
At the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, Dementieva won her first round robin match in the Maroon group against Venus after trailing 3–6, 1–3 in the second set by 3–6, 7–6(6), 6–2. She then suffered two consecutive losses, to Serena in her second round robin match by 2–6, 4–6, then to Svetlana Kuznetsova, by 3–6, 2–6. Because of this, she failed to reach to the semi-finals.
Dementieva finished 2009 as the world number 5, one spot lower from 2008 year end ranking. The highlights of her career this year included winning Auckland, Sydney and Toronto and reaching the semis at the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
2010: Final year
Dementieva's first tournament and tour title of the year came at the Medibank International, where she was also the defending champion. She defeated world no. 1 Serena Williams 6–3 6–2 in the final, successfully defending her title. En route to the final she defeated fellow Russian and world no. 2 Dinara Safina as well as the world no. 6 Victoria Azarenka, in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively, winning in straight sets on both occasions. She is the first woman since Martina Hingis in 2001 and 2002 to win the Medibank International in consecutive years.
Dementieva was seeded fifth at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam event of the year. She defeated Vera Dushevina of Russia in the 1st round. In the second round she lost to wild card, former World No. 1, and eventual finalist Justine Henin of Belgium, 5–7, 6–7 (6), despite having 2 set points in the first set, and one set point at 6–5 in the second set tie-break.
Dementieva's next tournament was the Open GDF Suez in Paris where she advanced to the final for the second consecutive year. In her second final of the year, she came from a set down to defeat Lucie Šafářová 6–7(5), 6–1, 6–4.
Dementieva was then the fifth seed at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai. She retired against Daniela Hantuchová in the second round because of shoulder injury while trailing 6–4, 1–1. Dementieva then played at the inaugural Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Seeded first, she advanced to her third final of the year where she fell in straight sets to Alisa Kleybanova, 6–3, 6–2.
Dementieva then took part in the Premier Mandatory events in North America. At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Dementieva lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals, 6–4, 6–3. The following week at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, she lost in the second Round to Justine Henin, 6–3, 6–2.
Dementieva represented Russia in the semifinal round of the 2010 Fed Cup against the United States. She defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Melanie Oudin in her two singes matches. In the deciding doubles match, Dementieva and Alla Kudryavtseva fell to Mattek-Sands and Liezel Huber 6–3, 6–1.
At the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where Dementieva was the sixth seed, she lost in the third round to a resurgent Ana Ivanović for the first time, 6–1, 7–6(5). She then played at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, where she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the first round, 6–0, 6–1. She lost to Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania in the second round 6–1, 3–6, 7–5 even after serving for the match. Despite the loss, Dementieva managed to be the Russian No.1 for the first time in her career.
Dementieva's next tournament was the Warsaw Open. As a second seed and receiving a bye in the first round, she lost to Tsvetana Pironkova in a nearly 3-hour match, 5–7, 6–4, 4–6.
Dementieva was the fifth seed at the French Open. She defeated Petra Martić of Croatia in the first round 6–1, 6–1 and Anabel Medina Garrigues in the second round 6–2, 7–6. Despite clear injuries, she managed to come from a set down and breaks down in the second and third sets to defeat Aleksandra Wozniak in the third round and ran past Chanelle Scheepers in the fourth round. She booked her place in the semi-finals of the tournament, where she faced Italian 17th seed Francesca Schiavone, after comeback from a set down to win over compatriot Nadia Petrova in the quarterfinals. She retired after Schiavone won the first set in a tie break with a torn left calf muscle which was sustained in the second round, and subsequently withdrew from Eastbourne and Wimbledon.[13]
Dementieva was the 12th seed at the US Open. She defeated Olga Govortsova, Sybille Bammer, and 24th seed Daniela Hantuchová to advance to the 4th round where she wasted four match points before falling to 5th seed Samantha Stosur.
As the 7th seed, Dementieva reached the finals of the 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open where she faced top seed Caroline Wozniacki. Dementieva defeated Yaroslava Shvedova, Flavia Pennetta, 2nd seed Vera Zvonareva, and 5th seed Francesca Schiavone but eventually lost to top seed Wozniacki. At the China Open, she suffering a 7–6(2), 7–6(4) loss to Serbian Ana Ivanović in the third round.
On 9 October 2010, it was announced that Dementieva had qualified for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships for the tenth time in her career.[14]
Dementieva's final event of the year was the WTA Tour Championships, where she qualified for the third consecutive year, as the No. 7 seed. Dementieva was still struggling with her ankle injury. As a member of the Maroon Group, Dementieva fell to Caroline Wozniacki 6–1, 6–1, defeated Samantha Stosur 4–6, 6–4, 7–6(4). Dementieva then faced Francesca Schiavone, and lost 6–4, 6–2.
Retirement
Following her loss to Schiavone, Dementieva announced her retirement in an on-court ceremony on 29 October 2010. Dementieva ended her career ranked World No. 9, with 16 WTA singles titles and 2 Grand Slam final appearances. Dementieva said in her speech that it had been an honour to be part of the tour. Zvonareva called her an inspiration.[1] Dementieva revealed during an interview with Eurosport that she had decided that 2010 would be her last season at the start of the year.
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