She started her early career when she was six, she were advocated as one of preferred pupils of a tennis clinic in Moscow run by Martina Navratilova, which had formerly trained players like Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, and Anna Kournikova.
Rated as #62 Stars 100 and #66 in Cash, Sharapova continues to be recorded as #22 The World’s Highest-Paid Athletes world-wide. She additionally won so many honest prizes due to her accomplishment, say it for example she conquered top seed winner, Serena Williams when she was 17. Later on, she comes into the victor of WTA Positions top 10 so that she got world no. 1 rank sportsmen in 2005. Jointly with her accomplishment, she won major titles at the 2006 US Open, 2008 Australian Open, and thus does with the Olympic silver medal in London 2012 Olympics.
Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова , Maria Yuryevna Sharapova , Masha , The Siberian Siren , Sibirskaya Sirena
Awards
Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award, Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Athlete
Nominations
Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year, Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award, Best Breakthrough Athlete ESPY Award, Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year
Star Sign
Aries
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Trademark
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Sexy voice
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Towering height.
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Grunts loudly when striking the ball
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2 handed backhand
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Plays right -handed
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Quote
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Rivalries are exciting for me and for the sport. That's what women's tennis really needs and men's tennis doesn't lack.
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Of course, because another three Slam titles will bring a lot more than $25 million, they would be worth even more [than $100 million]. (On whether she would give up her millions for more slam titles)
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"I wouldn't say I'm in love with them." (about her endless legs)
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Fact
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October 2009, won the "Pan Pacific Open" in Tokyo.
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Wears a size 10 shoe.
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In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $23 million.
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Ranked #17 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
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Named #8 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
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She defeated world #1 Amélie Mauresmo (6-0, 4-6, 6-0) in the semifinals and world #2 Justine Henin 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the 2006 US Open to win the title and $1.7 million in prize money.
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Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2005.
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Very close friends with fellow tennis player Maria Kirilenko.
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Named #19 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
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On the Forbes 2006 Richest Young Celebrities List, it is reported she earned $18.2 million in 2005. She was the highest-paid female athlete of the year.
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Became number 1 in the world in August 2005 & is the first Russian player to become the best player in the world
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According to the LA Times and Orange County Register, Maria said at a press conference she has grown a few cm this year and is now 6' 2". She's been having back pains and has had to pull out of some tournaments due to the pain which she thinks is from a growth spurt.
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Her loudest grunt was measured at 101.2 decibels (louder than a motorcycle or a lawnmower) on 21 June 2005 at Wimbledon Centre Court. Previously the loudest grunt was by Monica Seles at 93.2 decibels.
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She won the 2004 WTA Championships, defeating Serena Williams 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the final to pocket one million dollars and win a new Porsche Cayenne to donate to a charity of her choice.
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She was (and still is) so ambidextrous that she almost became a left-handed tennis player.
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Born in Siberia, Russia, and raised in the United States since age seven. Father Yuri brought her to the U.S. in 1994, but mother Yelena didn't join them until two years later due to visa problems.