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Player name
Maria
Sharapova
Birth
Date
April
19, 1987
Birth
Place:
Nyagan, Russia (Siberian Region)
Residence
Bradenton, Florida, USA
Nationality
Russia
Height
6'
(1.83 m)
Weight
130
lbs. (59kg)
Plays
Right
Handed
Coach
Michael Baroch and Robert Lansdorp
Age
Began Tennis
4
Personal Interests
Fashion, singing, jazz dancing, movies
Favorite movie
Pearl
Harbor
Favorite food
Russian
Favorite dessert
Anything
Favorite book
Sherlock Holmes
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Maria
was born in Nyagan (in the Siberian region of
Russia) on 19th April 1987. Yuri Sharapova is her
father, and her mother's name is Yelena. Maria is
exceptionally self-motivated, her parents fled to
Nyagan to escape radioactive fallout from the
Chernobyl disaster of 26th April 1986. Yuri
Sharapova became friends with the father of
Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who gave Maria her first
tennis-racket at the age of four, and she started
playing against the wall of her house.
Maria was discovered by Martina Navrátilová at an
exhibition in Moscow when she was six. Navrátilová
told the Sharapova family it was amazing what
Maria could do with a tennis ball. Maria moved to
Nick Bollettieri's tennis-academy in Florida. |
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