In her American dream, Maria Sharapova has an income of 21.4 million pounds in prize money. Along with her beauty, vitality and success, she became the representative of many luxury fashion and cosmetics brands. The blonde girl herself also owns her own business, a dream success in the country of the flag.
It is not difficult to recognize Sharapova on the tennis court as she is a symbol of beauty with long legs, a pure and motivated expression when competing. Even without seeing it with her own eyes, her screams after each return of the ball are a unique characteristic that shows her authority before her opponents. Gradually building her career despite her fluctuating performance, her current 2nd position on the WTA rankings marks her success over the past decade.The dream began when she and her father left Russia to study at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida (the academy that trained Andre Agassi, Monica Seles and Anna Kournikova) in 1994, when she was only 6 years old. .
Sharapova’s father, Mr. Yuri Sharapov, had the opportunity to know the father and son of tennis player Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the first Russian tennis player to win world No. 1 with 2 Grand Slam men’s singles.
Discovering his daughter’s talent thanks to Yevgeny Kafelnikov and following the advice of female tennis player Martina Navratilova, Mr. Yuri borrowed more to bring his daughter to America. Fast forward 7 years, and she was able to begin competing professionally in the WTA tennis system.
Sharapova’s talent can help her easily switch to American citizenship, just like world tennis talent Martina Navratilova changed her Czech nationality to the US right at the beginning of her brilliant career.
However, Sharapova’s choice is completely different: “If I wanted to, I would have done it, but the reality is that in my family or in my coaching staff, the question of changing nationality has never been raised.”
“Never forget your homeland”
Sometimes people forget that the tennis player who won 5 Grand Slam tournaments and the highest-paid female tennis player in the world is Russian, but recently, in an interview, she reaffirmed that she has never forgotten. home country. For her, everything she has is for Russia.
Sharapova won the Wimbledon championship at the age of 17 in 2004. Since then, she has participated in Fed Cup tournaments as part of the Russian team. During the Winter Olympics taking place in Sochi, she was honored to carry the torch of this Olympics. In 2004, Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon.
Also that year, she won 4 more titles and ended the year ranked 4th on the overall rankings. 2005 also ended in 4th place. She became the highest-ranked Russian player in world tennis and the first female tennis player to reach 3 Grand Slam finals.
At the end of August 2005, she was honored to be ranked number 1 in the world of women’s tennis for the first time and maintained this position for the next 6 weeks. In 2006, Sharapova won the US Open and remained ranked second in the world.
A persistent injury in 2007 caused her to fall to No. 5 in the world and is no longer the number 1 Russian tennis player, but instead is the name Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Attempting to return, 2008 opened with the Australian Open championship for Sharapova. A “Russian doll” completely transformed, knows how to take advantage of opportunities, competes fiercely to eliminate each opponent. When Justine Henin announced her retirement, Sharapova was ranked No. 1 for a few weeks. But her victory at the Australian Open opened the door for her injury to return, forcing her to hang up her racket for surgery.
Absent from the tennis court for 10 months, Sharapova returned to position 126 on the WTA rankings in May 2009. She was forced to practice again from her serves because she kept making double serving errors. But she did not give up, her left-handed playing style was trained more to increase the danger of her shots.
Although she did not win major awards, she also shortened her ranking to 18th. In 2012, Sharapova returned to No. 1 position with a silver medal at the Summer Olympics in London and won her first French Open. first in career. In 2014, she continued to win the second French Open of her career.
Currently, Sharapova is always trying to compete with world No. 1 Serena Williams in a relationship of more than 10 years, from her victory in the 2004 Wimbledon final until now.
