Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth19 April 1987
CityNyagan, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.
I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.
My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.
You can be playing great tennis the past week, you come out and no matter how good you might have been playing, the level of tennis goes down the drain simply because of the wind.
We've had such tough matches and I've been able to pull through three in a row - it's a confidence boost.
We have tough matches and I've been able to pull through, so I'm very happy.
Women's tennis is at such a high level now that any of the top 10 or 20 players could give me a tough match. Martina is on her comeback and no doubt will reach the top again but I don't have a specific rival here.
Women's tennis players are getting as many sponsors and media coverage as men, and our TV ratings at the Grand Slams are pretty much equal to and often better than the men, so I don't understand the rationale for paying the men more than us.
Yeah, ... I kind of gave it all I had in the tiebreaker. Then in the third set, I just kind of ran out of gas, basically.
When I'm down or when it's close in a match, I feel like I am still in it. Mentally I'm still really, really tough.
When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.
Wow! It's absolutely amazing, I can't believe I pulled this match out today,