In an article published in the magazines "Vogue" and "Vanity Fair, Maria Sharapova has said goodbye to tennis at the age of 32." By giving my life to tennis, tennis has given me life. I will miss him every day, "he summarizes.
After his parents moved to Russia from Belarus in 87 for fear of the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident , he started playing tennis in Sochi thanks to his uncle, former Russian tennis player Yevgeni Kafelnikov .
Martina Navratilova discovered her and convinced her parents to move her residence to the United States, where she begins to progress.
In 2004, at age 17, she became the third youngest woman to win Wimbledon after beating Serena Williams in the final. It would be his only win at the All England Club. He would get four more Grand Slams in 2006 ( US Open ), 2008 ( Australia ), 2012 and 2014 (double in Roland Garros ). In addition, he was a finalist five times: three in Australia (2007, 2012 and 2015), one in Wimbledon (2011) and another in Paris (2013). Three of those defeats, against Serena, his great rival, who also beat her in the final of the 2012 London Olympics .
In total, Sharapova, which became number 1 in the world , has won 36 individual titles, 22 in hard, three in grass and eleven in clay. And he has achieved more than 37 million dollars in his tennis career.
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