The Story Behind the Success of ‘Russian Doll’ Maria Sharapova

After 18 years of competing in one tournament after another, Russian female tennis player Maria Sharapova hung up her racket at the age of 32. Behind Sharapova’s illustrious achievements, there are many secrets that many people do not know. known…

Standing out on the field with her ideal height (1.88 meters) and pretty face, Sharapova also impressed the audience with her screaming voice at its peak reaching 102 decibels (on par with the siren of a car). police). From starting to play professional tennis in 2001, Sharapova has achieved countless titles, most notably the entire collection of Grand Slam championship titles: Australian Open (2008); French Open (2012, 2014); Wimbledon (2004) and US Open (2006).

Fate seemed to have arranged for “Masha” (Sharapova’s nickname) to soon fall in love with tennis. As soon as she was a 6-year-old girl, Sharapova was introduced to tennis by her father Yuri. The dream of becoming a tennis star burned even more when Sharapova’s family moved to the US to settle.

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“Russian Doll” Sharapova has hung up her racket.

“It’s not all as easy as people think. I came to America without knowing a word of English, only knowing what my name was,” Sharapova confided in an interview with the Daily Mail, “That motivated me to improve myself.” again”.

Having a more mature mindset than her age and natural talent, Sharapova gradually affirmed her talent by being admitted to the IMG Academy of former American tennis player Nick Bollettieri. That year Sharapova was only 9 years old.

Compared to other colleagues, Sharapova cherishes and values the rackets she uses every time she competes. Few people know that the former world number 1 has never damaged any racket during nearly 2 decades of fighting through various tournaments organized by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and the International Tennis Federation ( ITF) organization.

Even more impressive is the statistics from the WTA showing that Sharapova has played a total of 856 matches in her professional career (645 wins/171 losses in singles and 23 wins/17 matches). lost in doubles). According to the WTA representative, the fact that Sharapova has not damaged any racket while competing deserves admiration for her professionalism and carefulness.

Along with her illustrious playing career, Sharapova is also considered a money-making machine in the tennis world in particular and athletes in general. According to statistics from the prestigious magazine Forbes (USA), the recently retired tennis player currently owns a fortune including many real estate with an estimated value of about 325 million USD.

In addition to the tens of millions of dollars in prize money earned from awards, Sharapova’s wealth also swelled thanks to promoting the brand for a series of businesses with global coverage. For example, the “Russian doll” easily pocketed a generous remuneration of up to 70 million USD when signing an 8-year contract with the famous sportswear manufacturer Nike in 2010. Besides, there are also Not to mention Sharapova’s “mercenary” contracts with many other famous brands such as Porsche, Tag Heuer, Samsung or Canon…

When talking about Sharapova, it is impossible to ignore that the Russian female tennis player is very cool in the business field. In 2012, Sharapova pooled capital with several partners to establish a candy manufacturing company called Sugarpova. Step by step, Sugarpova candy products have appeared on shelves in many supermarkets and shopping centers in the US as well as Europe. Not stopping with what she has, Sharapova also has ambitions to expand into other fields such as cosmetics production or launching her own fashion brand.

Beautiful, talented and rich, Sharapova has everything that any girl desires. The irony is that the beauty queens in the world of tennis are extremely miserable in their love life. Some people have even strongly asserted that the saying “beautiful people are destined for fate” is completely relevant in Sharapova’s case.

Sharapova’s current lover is art dealer Alexander Gilkes born in 1979 and has British nationality. Gilkes also co-founded the online auction house Paddle8 in 2011. Gilkes once dated Princess Kate Middleton’s sister Pippa.

Gilkes then married fashion designer Misha Nonoo in 2012. However, the two divorced in 2016 due to many subjective and objective reasons. While Gilkes went through a failed marriage, Sharapova went through countless different love affairs.

Before dating Gilkes, Sharapova had at least four love affairs with a series of famous people including singer Adam Levine, film producer Charlie Ebersol, basketball player Sasha Vujacic and tennis player Grigor Dimitrov. . Not to mention she was rumored to have briefly dated former tennis player Andy Roddick. The common point from these love affairs is that they all broke up midway.

In addition, Sharapova is also someone who loves to dance, loves food and loves to sing karaoke with friends. At the same time, Sharapova has a reputation as a “nerd” among female tennis players. Wherever she competes, it’s like Sharapova brings a bunch of books to read in her free time.

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