MARIA SHARAPOVA
Maria Sharapova was born 19 April 1987 and is a former World No. 1 Russian tennis player.She is three time Grand Slam singles champion.And this beauty has stunned world by her cute smile and tennis..
Maria's childhood and staring of career..
Sharapova was born in 1987 to Yuri and Elena, ethnic Russians in Siberia, Russia. Her parents moved from Gomel, Belarus after the Chernobyl nuclear blast in 1986. When Sharapova was two, the family moved to Sochi where her father befriended Aleksandr Kafelnikov, whose son Yevgeny would go on to become a Grand slam champion. Aleksandr gave Sharapova her first tennis racket at the age of four, whereupon she began practicing regularly with her father in a local park.
maria joined professional training at the in Florida, which had previously trained players such as Andre Agassi, monica seles and Anna kourikova Sharapova and her father, neither of whom could speak English, moved to Florida in 1994. Visa restrictions prevented Sharapova's mother from joining them for two years. Sharapova's father took various low-paying jobs, including dish washing, to fund her lessons before she was admitted to the academy. In 1995, she was signed by IMG and finally enrolled in the academy..
HER JOURNEY....
When Sharapova was seven, she and her father moved from their life of poverty in Russia to the United States.After rising rapidly through the junior and professional ranks in the years that followed, Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at WIMBLEDON in 2004 at the age of 17. In the two years that followed, Sharapova won eight titles on the WTA Tour and had two brief stints as the World No. 1. However, she lost all five Grand Slam semifinals she played during this period. She ultimately won her second Grand Slam title at the 2006 us open. Worst thing in her career came In 2007 when a right shoulder injury forced Sharapova to withdraw from numerous tournaments; this was partially responsible for her dropping out of the top five on the WTA world rankings for the first time in three years. Although she won her third Grand Slam title at the Australian open in early 2008 and returned to the World No. 1 position later in the year, her shoulder needed surgery in October 2008. Sharapova was away from the sport for ten months until May 2009, which caused her ranking to drop out of the top 100. Since returning, Sharapova's ranking has recovered to within the top 15Sharapova's public profile extends beyond tennis. She has been featured in a number of modeling assignments.Sharapova was the most In July 2008, as a result of her success both on and off court, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete, earning US$26 million.
She is mainly joined with Chernobyl blast recovery program as it is her hometown..
Other than tennis:-
Sharapova has lived in the United States since moving there at the age of nine, but retains her Russian citizenship. She has a home in Manhaten beach. Sharapova lists fashion, movies, music and reading the Pippi Longstocking series as among her off-court interests, while she has also talked in the past about how she takes hip-hop dance classes.
At the 2004 US open , Sharapova, along with several other Russian female tennis players, wore a black ribbon in observance of the tragedy after the Beslan school crisis, which took place only days before. In 2005, she donated around US $ 50,000 to those affected by the crisis. On February 14, 2007, Sharapova was appointed a Goodwill Ambessader for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and donated US$100,000 to UNDP chenobyl recovery program. She stated at the time that she was planning to travel back to the area after Wimbledon in 2008, though it is unknown whether this happened....
