About the book
At the age of seventeen, Maria Sharapova beat two-time defending champion Serena Williams to win Wimbledon in 2004, and her memoir tells the longer story. It starts in a small Russian town, where she played on drab neighborhood courts as a five-year-old, and follows her father's gamble on moving them to Florida, where they arrived with seven hundred dollars and a few words of English. She describes holding the number-one WTA ranking several times and winning four more Grand Slam titles. Part of it covers her 15-month suspension after the ITF charged her at the 2016 Australian Open with taking meldonium, a recently banned substance. She writes candidly about her wins, her losses and the people close to her.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com founder Yaro Starak counts it among the tennis biographies he has read, and Irina Botnari of Bucur's Shelter Hostel named it among good recent biographies in an interview about her reading.
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Recommended by Irina Botnari (Managing Partner & Co-Founder/Bucur's Shelter Hostel)
Source: Irina Botnari, Co-Founder at Bucur's Shelter Hostel, on Books, Her Love for Stories and Biographies
Yaro Starak (Founder/Entrepreneurs-Journey.com)
Maria Sharapova, I have to add her to the list of tennis biographies I’ve read.
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