Russian tennis player Anna Chakvetadze was robbed of $230,000 in cash and valuables today when robbers broke into her Moscow house and tied up her family as Anna ran away for safety.

Her father went on Moscow television and explained:

"They started to beat me up, I resisted, then they hit me either with their hands or a pistol,'' Jamal Chakvetadze said.

Chakvetadze is the 6th ranked woman tennis player in the world. She earned 1.6 Million dollars last season. Russian sports figures have been involved in a number of strange robberies in recent memory including former tennis star Andrei Chesnokov who was shot in the Ukraine late last year.