Screaming Cinderella Maria Sharapova

Screaming Cinderella Maria Sharapova

   Maria Sharapova won the Open Championship in Japan in tennis in 2003
In the finale of a representative of the tournament in Tokyo, with a prize fund of 860,000 dollars Russian citizen, whose business card is screaming while batting, beat Hungary's Aniko Kaprosh athlete with a score of 2:6, 6:2, 7:6, (7:5 ).
After that stands for fifteen minutes did not give our athlete to withdraw from the court, made a real ovation.
Apparently, the fans were aware that this victory was the first in the career of 16-year old Sharapova. Prior success in Japan, the best achievement of Mary was out in the semifinals of the tournament in Birmingham.
"In the world tennis has a new star and a new sex symbol -" a screaming Cinderella from Russia, "- this is a game of Russian athletes commented on the Japanese journalists.
Our reporter managed to contact a young champion, and she is very emotionally talked about his success:
- It's nice that won and won some serious prize - twenty-seven thousand dollars. I hope that this is only the first step toward a tennis Olympus, which I seriously voznamerilas climb. In general, you know ... I'm still after the quarter was sure it was my tournament.

- On what was built this confidence?
- I myself have asked myself: "Can you win?" and received an affirmative answer. I always say to myself that if played well today, then tomorrow I can play even better. Can call it auto-training. Helps a lot (laughs).

- Maria, you have often been compared to Kournikova, it does not bother you?
- Very funny, although if quite honestly, has recently become annoying. I want to reiterate that I do not want to be Kournikova number two. I'm going to play tennis and seek victory on the court. Demonstrate its advantages on the covers of magazines - not mine.

- But you also have tried as a Model. You do not have to work like?
- No, why. Simply, it should not interfere with the main goal - to become the first racket of the world.

- Is not it too high you killed a bar?
- No, you have to set only the super complex problem and try to solve them. This is my parents taught.

- You are not offended by the nickname "cried Cinderella?
- What is and is it? So let it be known.

- You spend most of their time in the U.S., but never thought to change citizenship?
- I always feel like a Russian, and I have one nationality - Russian. And what with the fact that half my life I have lived in the U.S.? There my tennis career developed very successfully. But all the same because I - Russian and I dedicate my victory to their Motherland.

Paul Peter
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta"
25.08.2003

I always try to play my game says Maria Sharapova

    In the press center at Wimbledon buzz Copier, multiplying the running for reporters to cheer about Maria Sharapova. Foreigners want to know everything: where she was born, why six years had gone to Florida, which target set itself. This is understandable: not everyone, even very capable, tennis player can reach the fourth round of Grand Slam in 16 years.The vast majority of tennis fans who visited last week at Wimbledon, was immediately won over this long-haired girl in the compressing hand fist before each point. And, indeed, a brilliant game Sharapova can not but admire. And apparently it makes a very good impression. A year ago when I took her here during an interview with the junior competition, she looked pretty friendly girls. The same continues today, although to speak with Maria Sharapova has become much more complicated. People surrounding the young tennis player, carefully preserve it, and to journalists while Maria just talking to the press conferences. Well, this is logic: in such a tender age is not easy to cope with high psychological stress, which have fallen in these days for its share.

     But she thinks about her Elena Dementieva, recently conceded Mary in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Birmingham:- We met with Sharapova at the beginning of this year in Hong Kong exhibition tournament. For its 16 years, she is very confident on the court is held, it is clear that it is well mentally prepared not only to serious competition, but also to winning them. Most of all I like to feed her. Masha is still very young, and her game a lot of enthusiasm in the good reckless attacks.Well, perhaps it is feeding, enthusiasm and lack of fear of mistakes helped Sharapova in 1 hour 17 minutes to defeat at the prestigious first-court Wimbledon sown "by 11 th number Yugoslav Elena Dokic. The same one which is itself four years ago became the author here supersensatsii, in the first round defeating itself Martina Hingis, and then reached the quarterfinals.By the way, on Saturday at a press conference, Helen was asked to compare her to achieve with the current Sharapovsky.- Do not forget that I beat then top-ranked - without false modesty, said Dokic, but immediately noticed that in the future Sharapova fully able to enter in the top ten.In this equally by and large the game all decided several important drawings, in which Sharapova was peerless, and Dokic, conversely, is vulnerable. Of his four break-points she failed to implement a single, while Maria Sharapova used two out of five: in the opening game of the first batch and the fifth in the second.
- What can you say about his next opponent - Svetlana Kuznetsova? - I said Sharapova.- While almost nothing. Her game watched my dad (he's one of the coaches Sharapova. - EF), which will help me to develop tactics for this match.
- In the second round you defeated another Russian woman - Elena Bovina. Probably the matches with countrywomen tune in a special way?- Basically for me it does not matter from which country tennis is on the other half of the court. I always try to play my game.This our communion with Mary, and so far limited. But I retain the hope that the next time I have better luck.
Eugene Fedyakov"Sport-Express"30.06.2003