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Maria Sharapova Biography |
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| Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Mar-I-ya YUR-yev-na Sha-RA-pahva ); Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова; born April 19, 1987) is a former world number one professional tennis player and the Highest paid female athlete. Her parents are originally from Gomel, Belarus, but moved to Siberia, Russia in 1986, in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Sharapova was born in Nyagan, Russia, the following year. She now lives in the United States, but retains Russian citizenship.At the age of three, Sharapova moved with her family to the Black Sea resort town of Sochi. She started playing tennis at the age of four, using a racquet given to her by the father of tennis star Yevgeny Kafelnikov, a native of Sochi. At the age of six, while in a tennis clinic in Moscow, Sharapova was spotted by Martina Navratilova, who urged her parents to get her serious coaching in the United States. | |||||||||||||
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