Biography of Sharapova Marina

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. A five -time winner of the sports competitions of a large helmet and Tight fights of the WTA women's tennis association. Childhood The future star of the World Tennis was born in the year. Her parents lived in a private house on the outskirts of Gomel, kilometers from Chernobyl, already closed at that time. Father, Yuri Viktorovich, was extremely afraid of the influence of radiation on the unborn child and sent the pregnant wife Elena Petrovna to his relatives, to the small Siberian city of Nyagan.

The future tennis player was born there. Maria Sharapova in childhood from the maternity hospital Maria with her mother was taken by Grandfather Peter, not his father. At the end of X, Yuri Sharapov worked in Belarus and during the first years of his daughter’s life he was extremely rare in Siberia. In the beginning of the x, the family moved to Sochi. It was there that Maria grew and took her first steps in sports.

The hobby of Sharapova tennis began thanks to the father. For one of the holidays, he was presented with a racket, and, despite the fact that only the elite played in tennis in the USSR, Yuri Viktorovich began to study. Masha attended training in a sports club with her father. The first racket was presented to her by Alexander Kafelnikov, a friend of her father and father of the future champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

The first steps in tennis in the year 4-year-old Masha were introduced to the coach Yuri Yudkin. It was he who noticed the inclinations of phenomenal abilities from Sharapova and took it under his wing. According to the coach, at a very low age, Maria showed non -childish concentration and perseverance, performing exercises again and again, until she achieved the desired result.

Maria Sharapova on the court from the age of four, even then she took the habit of accompanying the game with a scream according to measurements, its volume can reach decibel. Subsequently, her rivals and spectators complained about this more than once, but Maria says that there can be nothing to do with herself - a reflex. By the age of seven, she could repel complex twisted presentations, and tennis functionaries hinted to Yuri Sharapov that his daughter was a genius of tennis, and she would be worth sending to the States.

If the father was engaged in the development of her daughter’s sports abilities, then mother is preparing for school. She forced her to write letters, then - works, teach poems, read. The girl’s favorite book was Peppy of Long Highways Astrid Lindgren. Maria Sharapova and his father in the year Yuri managed to get with her daughter for a master class for young athletes, organized in Moscow under the auspices of one of the tennis organizations.

Among the coaches who watched the players and gave advice was the greatest tennis player in the world Martin Navvatilov. She immediately saw the prospect of the baby and recommended her father to take her to the United States, where she could develop in tennis effectively. The whole family seriously thought about her words, realizing that sport in Russia is an expensive pleasure, and it is unlikely that Sharapov will be a pocket for renting closed courts for training.

Moving to the United States in the year, miraculously persuading the representative of the embassy to give them three -year visas, Yuri and his daughter went to Florida. The young father at the age of 28 did not know a single foreign language and arrived in the United States with a 6-year-old child his wife simply did not give a visa, having in the hands of all dollars, borrowed from friends.

But determination and sociability helped Yuri find housing and arrange their talented daughter at the Rick Bolletieri tennis academy. The educational institution united an academic training program and highly effective professional sports training. It was very difficult to deal with the Academy at the Academy - once Maria was even close to deductions. However, the Russians could not occupy the fighting spirit and perseverance.

Mom Sharapova came to the United States in the year - she began to help her with lessons and support her daughter in all possible ways. The beginning of his career in the debut performance of Maria Sharapova at international competitions for the juniors Eddie Herr took place. A year later, the Russian woman for the first time played on the female professional competition of the International Federation of the ITF tennis, however, it was not entirely successful - it was not included in the third circle.

This circumstance somewhat upset her, but also made her train even more intensely and diligently. Maria Sharapova in her youth in Maria managed to go to the final of two of the four Grand Slam games: the open championship of the Green Continent and Wimbledon for girls under 16 years old. Great sport. The heyday of her tennis player managed to go through qualification qualifying games and first appeared in adult competitions.

In Australia and in France, her desire to overcome even the first round was unsuccessful. However, on herbal courts of competition in Birmingham, she was lucky to enter the semifinals. This circumstance allowed the young Russian woman to get into the top of women professional. In his youth, Maria Sharapova in Tokyo, the athlete managed to defend two trophies of the WTA women's tennis association, overcoming Anko Kaproposh from Hungary in a single final battle and having achieved leadership in a pair together with the Thai athlete Tamarin Tanasugarn.Thus, a novice tennis player included a list of fifty leading players with 32 places and earned the award of the WTA Association in the Novice of the Year category.

Despite the fact that the girl went to the court with a sore throat, she managed to beat the current double champion Serena Williams from the USA, which remained her main rival over the next few years. In Maria Sharapova, she made her debut at Wimbledon after a triumph at Wimbledon Sharapova signed a contract with a Motorola mobile phone manufacturer for one and a half million dollars a year.

In the year, the girl became the highest paid sport star and held this title for 11 consecutive years. Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams in the final of Wimbledon among the successful performances of the tennis player of that period can also be noted leadership in Tokyo and the WTA championship, where she was able to defeat Serena Williams for the second and last time. In the same period, Sharapova suffered a fiasco in the final of Miami Masters in a duel with the Belgian colleague Kim Klesters and in the Wimbledon semifinals in the match with Vinus Williams by the older sister of Serena, and Cleeters could not overtake on US Open again.

So, for the first time, becoming the leader of the rating of tennis players in the summer, in the fall, Masha lost world leadership and was, as a year earlier, for 4 positions among tennis stars. Maria Sharapova in her youth, however, Maria continued to train and participate in competitions. In the beginning of the year, the Star of World Sports went to the final of the Australian championship, but lost to her main rival to Serena Williams.

With this, a strip of failures began for Mary-a loss in Miami and Indian-Wells, and several more competitions, a step away from the failure, lowered the tennis player to the fifth line of the World Rating. After the surgical surgery, she returned to the sport, but she needed to change the key moment in the game, the key moment in the game. In Sharapova, she injured her shoulder return.

The tennis player Olympiad again won the Strasbourg and Memphis, but already on soil courts. In previous years, she uncomfortably felt on the coating, allowing to slide. However, showing her fighting character, the girl was able, without changing her play style, to find a way to overcome inconvenience. Subsequently, the titles earned on such courts amounted to almost a third of the total number of her victories 11 out of the screams of Sharapova on a tennis court of the year, due to losses in a number of large competitions, Sharapova took only 18th place, but a year later rose to the fourth line of the list of the best tennis players in the world.

Thanks to him, she managed to take the first line in the WTA leaders table and arrange a “career” helmet in different years to defeat all 4 large helmet tournaments. The growth of Maria Sharapova - SM at the same time, she first took part in the Olympics, where she became a banner of the Russian national team at the opening ceremony of games in the capital of Great Britain.

The girl was incredibly popular in her homeland and was ahead of the titles of any of the Russian players. But her dream of Olympic gold, alas, did not come true - he was taken by Serena Williams was better, and Masha got only silver. Over time, the products began to be sold in 25 countries of the world, and the business itself to bring Maria from 10 to 12 million dollars a year.

Sugarpova - the confectionery brand Sharapova in the athlete entered the semifinal Australian Open, but lost to the Chinese tennis player Lee. In the semifinals, Qatar Open Sharapova suffered another defeat from her eternal rival Williams. Then there was a victory in Indian-Wells, going to the final in Miami and Madrid and loss in both matches of Serena. But Lee was able to defeat the Chinese woman on Maria, having outpassed her in a ground competition in Stuttgart.

Due to the injuries, Sharapova had to withdraw from several subsequent tournaments, and she finished the fourth season among the best tennis players in the world. Maria Sharapova. The best presentation on Australian Open has become more successful for Masha. She took the title in competitions in Madrid, Beijing, Stuttgart, managed to become the owner of a large helmet for the fifth time, once again conquering the Roland Garros court.

She showed high results in several other tournaments, which allowed her to rise in the WTA rating again to the second position. Then she won two matches against the national teams of Poland and the Czech Republic as part of the Russian team during the Federation Cup. However, she again failed to defeat Serena Williams in the final of the Australian Open Championship and in the semifinals on Wimbledon.

She completed a year 4 on the 4th line of the WTA rating. The scandal with doping in tennis player took part in the Australian Open, having lost once again to Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. Soon after, the scandal erupted: in the doping test of Mary, a forbidden drug Meldonium was discovered. For violation of anti -doping rules, it was excluded from the WTA rating and disqualified for 2 years.

Sharapov was removed from the games due to Meldonium after the appeal submitted by her an arbitration of the Sports Court reduced this period by 9 months. He admitted that she violated the ban, unintentionally, as she took this drug for many years due to dizziness and a lack of magnesium in the body. But as a result of the incident, she and a number of Russian athletes, also convicted of use of an unreasonable drug, did not participate in the Olympics.

Maria Sharapova about the failure of a doping test English. During the removal from participation in competitions, the tennis celebrity retained relations with most partner brands, including Nike, Evian, Porsche. She was also engaged in the development of her business project, writing the book “Unrealistic. My life. " She took the words of Nelson Mandell to the epigraph to her: "Judge me not according to my success, but by how many times I fell and rose again." By the end of the year, the book was published in 20 languages.

The final of the sports career in the Russian woman returned to tennis, speaking at the tournament in Stuttgart, where, in a step from the victory, an annoying defeat in the semifinal match with Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovich suffered. In the future, she failed to achieve past positions in the world ranking. Good luck that year smiled only once - not in the most prestigious Tianjin Open China, where she beat, the irony of fate, the Belarusian tennis player Arina Sobolenko.

She completed the season at the 57th place of the rating of the Women's Tennis Association, where she was again included. Then Maria fought for the victory in Chinese Shenzhen, where she reached the semifinals, but lost to the Czech tennis player Katerina Sinyakova. Subsequently, the failures pursued Maria on US Open and on Wimbledon, where, due to her wrist injury, she stopped the performance, and on the Australian Open, where in the first circle her rival on the court was Serena Williams, predictably winning the victory.

The personal life of Maria Sharapova, the five -time champion of “Big Herbes” prefers not to take its personal to the public. However, it is known that it was not married and did not get children. There is an opinion that the desire to arrange their personal life also played a role in its decision to complete his career.