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Wellcome Back Maria
The reintegration of Maria Sharapova into the tennis fold is gathering pace. The 29-year-old Russian is banned from playing competitively until the end of April, having tested positive for the banned drug Meldonium at this year’s Australian Open, but earlier this month she played in a charity event in the United States alongside the likes of John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova. Now her welcome back into the tennis family will move up another gear when she faces Garbine Muguruza in an exhibition event in Madrid in December.
To appear on court at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with some former players is one thing, but Sharapova’s meeting with Muguruza is of a different order. The exhibition match – on a playing surface of clay on one side of the court and grass on the other – is being staged on the Manolo Santana Centre Court at Madrid’s Caja Magica, which in the spring stages one of the year’s biggest clay-court tournaments in the build-up to the French Open.
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Maria Sharapova Biography
Maria Sharapova
Tennis champion Maria Sharapova became the first Russian woman to win Wimbledon and hold the world's No. 1 ranking.
| full name: | Maria Yuryevna Sharapova |
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| bio: | Sharapova started hitting tennis balls at age four. At age nine she began training at Nick Bollettieri’s Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida, USA - a big commitment and sacrifice as she was away from her family and country at such a young age. This sacrifice is now paying dividends with success on and off the tennis court. In early 2016 she failed a drug test, and later admitted to testing positive for meldonium which she had been taking for years but was only recently added to the banned substances list. |
| also known as: | Masha |
| family: | Yuri and Yelena Sharapov |
| born: | April 19, 1987 in Nyagan, Russia (Siberian Region) |
| physical attributes: | Height: 6'2 Weight: 130 lbs. (59 kg) Plays right-handed |
| sport: | Tennis |
| rep. country: | Russia |
| lives: | Bradenton, Florida, USA |
| coach: | her father Yuri Sharapov and Robert Lansdorp |
| achievements: | BEST GRAND SLAM PERFORMANCES Australian Open: winner 2008 Roland Garros: winner 2012 US Open: winner 2006 Wimbledon: winner 2004 |
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