Life biography of Maria Sharapove.
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Hey Sports Community and sports love, Today i am going to write life biography of a well-famous tennis player Maria Sharapove
The name it self is very famous and every one know about her.
Maria Sharapove was born on april 19,1987 in an Russian city named Nyagan, The name of her beautiful mother and father was Yelna sharapove and Yuri Sharapove. She was the only daughter of her parents. His father Yuri Sharapova was also a tennis player and played a very vital role in Maria's career. Due to some circumstances they moved to united state in 1994 and In united states she get admission in Nick Bollettieri Tennis academy which was located in Florida. In the start she used to play tennis with her father at the age of seven.
As she was just 7 year old when they moved to Florida, She faced some issue in joining the academy because of her Age and in the start she took training at the Rick Macci Tennis Academy.
Maria Sharapova Career is a combination of ups and down. due to her young age She face some difficulties and decided to play in junior tournaments and at the age of 13 she won the Eddie herr International Junior Tennis championship In the girl's 16 division and because of this win, she then rewarded as a rising talent in the tennis sport.
She started her professional career in 2001 and played his first WTA match in 2002 at the pacific life open. After the start of her professional career she again faced issue because of her young age and restricted to play many professional events.
In 2002 she reached the finals of Australian open and Wimbledon, but unluckily she didn't won. In 2003 she again played in Australian open and french open, and this time again She lost in the first round of both these tournaments.
Later in 2003 She won is first ever WTA title at the Japan open tennis tournament and rewarded as the WTA newcomer in 2003.
She won her first Grand slam event at the Wimbledon in 2004, at the age of 17 when she defeated the defending Champion Serena Williams.
Because of this win, she become the 2nd Russian women to win Grand slam event and also entered in the top 10 rankings for the first time ever in her career.
In August 2005, She becomes the World no 1 player and first ever Russian to hold the Trophy of world no 1 player.
Her stay on the Top ranking was short and she lost her top position against Lindsay Davenport
In 2006, She won her 2nd grand slam singles event of her career when she defeated Justin Henin In the U.S open Tournament.
In 2007, She reached the Finals of Australian open, Reached the Semis of French Open and lost in the fourth round of Wimbledon. In the same year she also had injury and that the year not for her and her rankings Fell below top 5.
She won her 3rd grand slam event in 2008 when she defeated Ana Ivanovic in Australian open and Due to this win she once again become world no 1 player in may 2008,
In 2012 She won her first ever French open title and become only tenth player to complete a career grand slam and in the process she regain the World no 1 spot.
In London Olympics she won the silver medal.
In 2013, she reached in the Semi's of Australian open, Final of french open and Exit in 2nd round from the Wimbledon tournament. She didn't played U.s open Due to shoulder injury.
In 2014, She won 2nd French open title of her career by defeating Simona Halep, in 2014 She also won the Stuttgart open, Madrid open and China open. She was at 4 in 2014 and ended up at 2nd in 2014.
Her has been the brand ambassador of many leading brands in her career Such as Motorola, Tiffany, Land rover, canon, nike and many more.
Her first relationship was with very famous singer Levine in 2005, but the relationship was very short lived and they separated.
In 2009, she begin dating Slovenian Basket ball player Sasha Vujacic and they also announced their engagement in 2010, but Sadly 2012 Maria break up with the basket ball player.
She also started her foundation Maria sharapova foundation in collaboration with the United nation, The aim of her foundation is to help the kids to achieve their dreams.
Please Ignore the Sentence, Grammar and Spelling mistakes as i am new writer.
If you want me to write about any of your favorite Players, just leave the name in the comment box.
thanks.
@philnewton, When did you start to like texts in not perfect English?
Waow ! What a nice biography. Keep up the good work and interesting update
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