Sunday,
April 28, 20013,
Press Release for Jessica Livianu
For Immediate Release
Contact:
David Livianu
david@livianu.com
718.627.4049.
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I
am delighted to provide you with a little background on our daughter (Jessica Livianu) and her family;
Jessica won the prestigious Ojai Valley Junior Tournament (2B) 113th, Girls 16s, Singles. Jessica was not a seeded player and beat
the #1 seed, Seira Shimichi, in the semi-finals, 6-4, 7-6 (3), and Ryan Peus,
the #7 seed in the final, 6-3, 6-3.
Jessica started
playing tennis at 3 years old, chasing balls on the public tennis courts of
Brooklyn, NY, while her mother, Bulgarian-born Bogdana (Bogie) Romanska), was teaching high performance tennis to junior
players, including Gail Brodsky (twice
winner of the Ojai tournament) .
Her mother, Bogie, is also Jessica’s full time tennis coach, since she
was 5 years old.
Jessica Livianu, just turned
15 in February, and comes from tennis and music royalty; her mother Bogie is
a former WTA player, ranked as high as 189 in the world in the late 1980s. Her
grandparents, Vladimir and Elena Romansky were both Bulgarian National Tennis
champions.
Her father, David Livianu,
is a Romanian-born Juilliard Graduate, the son of a famous Romanian-Jewish
crooner in the 1930s, Dorel Livianu.
Jessica Livianu finished #1
in both the 12s and 14s USTA Eastern, NY State, and as high as #7 in National
12s and #13 in National 14s in the USA.
Jessica has worked for the
past 4 months with elite Bulgarian coach Ognian Katzarov, at the
Jessica Livianu wants to
turn pro but also get a solid education at Harvard; she understands that the
road to success is paved with serious challenges, but is determined to work
hard and smart with her number 1 supporter, her mother-coach Bogie. Jessica has a lot of support from her #1
fan, her brother Jacob 12, who plays junior tennis and is an avid skateboarder.
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