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Bio:
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Residence Bradenton, Florida, USA
Date of birth April 19, 1987
Place of birth Nyagan, Siberia, Russia
Height 1.905 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 68 kg (149 lbs)
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova born April 19, 1987) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player and the world's highest-paid female athlete.
Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles during her career. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, winning the 2006 title over Justine Henin-Hardenne. Two years earlier, she won the 2004 Wimbledon Championships over Serena Williams.
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Career
In 2004, Sharapova became the third-youngest Wimbledon women's champion (after Lottie Dod and Martina Hingis) and second-youngest in the open era by defeating Ai Sugiyama (5-7, 7-5, 6-1) in the quarterfinals, Lindsay Davenport (2-6, 7-6, 6-1) in the semifinals, and two-time defending champion Serena Williams (6-1, 6-4) in the final. She also became the first Russian to win that tournament. Sharapova ended 2004 with a victory at the season-ending WTA Championships, defeating Williams (4-6, 6-2, 6-4) after coming back from an 0-4 final set deficit.
From June 2004 until her Wimbledon semifinal appearance in 2005, Sharapova had a 22-match winning streak on grass, including back-to-back Birmingham titles and the Wimbledon crown. Sharapova's success continued after winning Wimbledon, both on the court, making the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, holding 3 match points there before falling to Serena Williams 2-6, 7-5, 8-6, and off it, with numerous commercial endorsements.
Defending her Wimbledon title in 2005, Sharapova sailed through to the semifinals without losing a set, but then lost to a rejuvenated Venus Williams (7-6, 6-1). Sharapova's streak on grass was ended, as was her quest to dethrone No. 1 Davenport.
However, a back injury that Davenport sustained in the Wimbledon final meant that she could not defend the ranking points she obtained during the US hard court season of 2004. Sharapova was also suffering from an injury and did not complete a tournament during the season, but she had fewer points to defend and therefore rose to the No. 1 ranking on August 22, 2005. Her reign lasted only a week when Davenport re-ascended after winning the New Haven title. Sharapova rose to the No. 1 ranking again on September 12, 2005, despite losing in the semifinals of the US Open. Sharapova held on to the No. 1 ranking for a further six weeks before relinquishing it again to Davenport following the 2005 Zurich Open.
Sharapova's loss in a semifinal of the 2005 US Open against Kim Clijsters marked the fourth time that season she had lost at a Grand Slam tournament to the eventual champion: Australian Open-SF-Serena Williams, French Open-QF-Justine Henin-Hardenne, Wimbledon-SF-Venus Williams, US Open-SF-Kim Clijsters. That streak was broken in January 2006, when Sharapova lost in an Australian Open semifinal to Henin-Hardenne, who lost in the final to Amélie Mauresmo.
On March 18, 2006, Sharapova, as No. 3 seed, claimed her first title of the year at the Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells (a Tier 1 event), defeating No. 4 seed Elena Dementieva in the final, 6-1 6-2. This was the 11th title of her career. Sharapova and Dementieva were the first Russians to reach the final of that event. Soon after, Sharapova reached the final of the Nasdaq-100 Open, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-3.
Sharapova participated at the 2006 French Open having not played any clay court tune-ups. After saving three match points in the first round against Mashona Washington, Sharapova was eliminated in the fourth round by Dinara Safina 7-5, 2-6, 7-5, after Sharapova led 5-1 in the third set. Sharapova lost 18 of the match's last 21 points.
Sharapova welcomed the onset of the grass season but failed to add a third successive Birmingham title to her collection, losing in the semifinals to American Jamea Jackson.
For the second consecutive year, Sharapova was defeated in the semifinals of Wimbledon, losing to eventual winner Mauresmo 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. Sharapova currently has a 2-5 record in Grand Slam semifinals. Sharapova is currently ranked No. 3 in the world. Sharapova has a combined 3-7 record against the top 2 players in the world (1-3 against Mauresmo and 2-4 against Henin-Hardenne). She is 1-4 against Clijsters, another former world No. 1.
Sharapova claimed her second title of 2006 as the second seed at the Acura Classic in San Diego, defeating top seeded Clijsters, 7-5 7-5. This was Sharapova's first victory over Clijsters in five meetings.
Sharapova entered the 2006 U.S. Open seeded third after Clijsters dropped out of the tournament with a wrist injury. Considered one of the favorites to reach the final, she lived up to expectations defeating Mauresmo, the number one player in the world, in a semifinal 6-0, 4-6, 6-0. Sharapova was victorious in the final, beating Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4 to win her second Grand Slam title, 13th tournament of her career, and third tournament of the year.
Personal life
Sharapova's parents are originally from Gomel, Belarus, and moved to Siberia, Russia in 1986, after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. She was born in Nyagan, Russia, the following year.
At age 7, Sharapova was brought to the United States by her father to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Her mother followed a few years later.
Sharapova has lived in the United States since she was a child, but retains Russian citizenship.
Sharapova recently purchased a beach-front home in Manhattan Beach, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The majority of the year, she can be found living close to her training facility (IMG) in Longboat Key, Fl.
At 19, Sharapova has yet to finish high school.
Trivia
* In April 2005, she was listed by People Magazine as among the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world.
* In 2006, Maxim magazine named her the hottest athlete in the world, an award she has won four consecutive years.
* In February 2006, she was featured in a six-page bikini photoshoot spread in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue annual magazine which debuted on Valentine's Day, along with 25 other scantily-clad supermodels. Sharapova joined the ranks of other athletes who have previously appeared in the publication.
* In June 2006, Sharapova appeared in a commercial for ESPN's This is SportsCenter campaign. In the commercial, she is walking past Stuart Scott's desk when he stops her. He offers her a can of tennis balls he received from a supplier. She says that the can is filled with paper "worms" and that she doesn't want it. Scott acts offended, causing Sharapova to feel bad. She obliges to take the can, opens it, and paper worms fly into her face. She angrily walks away and throws the can back at Scott after he asks for it back. This commercial also featured Roger Federer who suffers the same fate before Sharapova. This was Sharapova's second commercial for ESPN. The first one involved anchor John Anderson giving Sharapova a seat, which he was saving for Stuart Scott, even though he declined to give the seat to another anchor. This was an obvious reference to Sharapova's looks, as she is seen as one of the most beautiful athletes in the world.
* Never one to stay quiet on court, perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of Sharapova's game is her trademark on-court "grunting" or "screaming." Quite possibly the loudest female screamer since Monica Seles, a London tabloid is reported to have claimed that "her persistent shrieks topped out at 102 decibels" (as loud as a police siren). Sharapova claims that this is just part of her game and that only the British press give her a hard time about it. Elena Dementieva, Sharapova's opponent in a 2006 Wimbledon quarterfinal, complained about the distraction it causes.. Later in US Open, Tatiana Golovin said: "Shrieking is not going to make the tennis ball come to me faster."
* Says what she enjoys most about being a professional tennis player is the traveling and getting to meet new people and see new cultures.
* Is good friends with fellow Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko, despite not getting along with the other female Russian tennis players.
* Is affectionately called "Masha".
* Gave the racquet she used in the Wimbledon final to Regis Philbin, when taping Live with Regis and Kelly.
* Sharapova is the only Russian female player with more than one Grand Slam singles title.
* Her favourite fashion designer is Marc Jacobs. She is sometimes seen in Marc Jacobs fashion shows
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