Maria Sharapova

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova born April 19, 1987 is a Russian professional tennis player, who is ranked world No.by the Womens Tennis Association . A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No.in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total ofweeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in womens singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Russian SFSR. Her parents, Yuri and Yelena, are from Gomel, Belarussian SSR. Concerned about the regional effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, they left their homeland shortly before Maria was born.

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