Summary
TWELVE months ago, a slim teenage girl, blonde hair running down her back, practised on an outside court in front of half-adozen spectators at a tournament in Birmingham.
Three weeks later, the same 17-year-old stole the hearts of a nation and a worldwide television audience when she stood on Centre Court, trying to find a mobile phone signal to tell her mum she had just won Wimbledon.See the full content of this document
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Will Queen Maria Rule Again? ; Now That She Returns As Champion, They're All Gunning for the Russian
Maria Sharapova is back. With gold tennis shoes, untold riches in the bank and a life that has been changed for ever.
The girl from Siberia who spent lonely, bewildered nights not understanding the language in a Florida dormitory as she learned the game, now lives at the centre of the tennis world.Denied a normal adolescence by her stardom, Sharapova has packed a career's worth of experiences into the la...See the full content of this document
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