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
I remember not being very patient with her, ... A lot of things have happened since then. Hopefully I can use my experience to beat her.
I was hoping that it would be better by now, ... but unfortunately I am not yet able to play.
It feels really great. Honestly I was having a really tough end of the year last year. You know, not a lot of people know about it, but it was very frustrating because tournament after tournament, you know, I'd be working hard and I'd be trying to get back in shape and all of a sudden my injury would bring me down again.
I heard she's got a big and powerful game,
Right now the most important thing to become number one is to be healthy and ready to play. When you are healthy and happy, then you perform your best, so that's very important that I'm healthy.
I haven't really seen much of how she plays. I've heard she's got a big, powerful game.
I look forward to the challenge of doing well here. I want to protect my number one ranking.
But in the future, dominating is something I would like, but I'm still not where I need to be physically or with my game.
I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.
That's not the way I like to win matches, but anything can happen in tennis.
I needed to keep on attacking as it is difficult to keep rallying with her.
I grew a few centimeters this year and I'm still getting used to my height,
This is something I've dreamed of all my life, ... It's just an amazing fact to be No. 1 in world. Topping it off, I am the first Russian. I'm so excited that I could achieve it.
But it would mean a lot. I don't think I've shown New York how I can play tennis. Hopefully I can put together some good matches for my New York fans.