TatianaPonomareva was born in Moscow in 1968 where she live. She is graduated from Moscow State University, mechanics-mathematics department in 1990.  Tatiana is married and has a daughter and a son. She works in a small law company.

She has no time to have another hobby except the bridge that she started to play in 1990 and has racked up an impressive series of victories earning the title of World Open International Master and World Women Grand Master.

She won the Women Teams at the 2004 Olympics earning the silver 8 years later and the 2006 MC Connell Cup, event in which he took also the bronze in 2010.

Beside, she earned the silver medal at the World Transnational Open Teams in 2007, the World Transnational Mixed Teams in 2008 and the European Mixed Team Championships in 2007.

She then took a bronze at the European Women Teams in 2005, the silver in the Mixed Teams Olympiads of 2016 and the bronze in McConnell.

In 2018 she won the Whitehead and earned the bronze medal in the McConnell.

In 2019 she won the Women Teams at the European Open and the Wuhan Cup.