Maria Sharapova Knihy

Перед вами первая автобиография Марии Шараповой - прославленной теннисистки, пятикратной победительницы турниров Большого шлема и обладательницы множества других престижных трофеев. Она взяла в руки ракетку в четыре года, а уже в семнадцать взошла на теннисный Олимп, сенсационно одолев в финале Уимблдона Серену Уильямс. С тех пор Мария прочно закрепилась в мировой спортивной элите, став одной из величайших спортсменок современности. Откровенная книга Шараповой - не только о ней самой, ее жизни, семье и спортивной карьере. Она - о безудержном стремлении к мечте, об успехах и ошибках на этом пути, о честности и предательстве, о взрослении и опыте, приходящем с годами. В конце концов о том, как не потерять голову от побед и как стойко переносить поражения. А о поражениях Мария знает не понаслышке: после 15-месячной дисквалификации она вернулась в большой спорт, чтобы доказать всем - и поклонникам, и ненавистникам - что даже такие удары судьбы не способны ее остановить.

In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right. This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents had fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival in the US and her phenomenal rise to success - winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her fight back. Here the five-time Grand Slam winner gives us candid insights into her relationship with her father, who gave up his job and life in Russia to dedicate himself to his daughter; the truth behind her famous rivalry with Serena Williams; the injuries and suspension controversy that threatened to end it all. It's a story of of crazy luck, mistakes, rivalries, sacrifice, survival and, above all, the constant, unwavering determination to win.

In 2004, in a stunning upset against the two-time defending champion Serena Williams, seventeen-year-old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon, becoming an overnight sensation. Out of virtual anonymity, she launched herself onto the international stage. "Maria Mania" was born. Her success would last: she went on to hold the number-one WTA ranking multiple times, to win four more Grand Slam tournaments, and to become one of the highest-grossing female athletes in the world. And then -- at perhaps the peak of her career -- she was charged by the ITF with taking the banned substance meldonium, only recently added to the ITF's list. The resulting suspension would keep her off the professional courts for fifteen months -- a frighteningly long time for any athlete. But Sharapova's career has always been driven by her determination and by her dedication to hard work. Her story doesn't begin with the 2004 Wimbledon championship, but years before, in a small Russian town, where as a five-year-old she played on drab neighborhood courts with precocious concentration. It begins when her father, convinced his daughter could be a star, risked everything to get them to Florida, that sacred land of tennis academies. It begins when the two arrived with only seven hundred dollars and knowing only a few words of English. From that, Sharapova scraped together one of the most influential sports careers in history.