Israel’s News Blog Magazine: Daily Stories Video and PhotosMaria Sharapova is the envy of her classmates, and virtually all other girls her age. The 18 year old tennis ingénue won her claim to fame by winning the women’s title in the U.S. Open tennis tournament on Saturday. The Russian teenager, following the footsteps of former German tennis star, Steffi Graf, won her final match by the sizzling scores of 6-4, 6-4 over her Belgian opponent Justine Hennen-Arden.
Maria, who has recently gone from strength to strength in the professional tennis world, appeared to have the confidence and the grace of players at lest 6-8 years older. The slender teenager has already won a number of titles, including nearly every major world class tennis championship, defeating even the American sister stars, Venus and Serena Williams. Saturday’s final game took an hour and a half on intensive volleys, and brilliant defensive moves on Maria’s part.
Maria, who already has began to make on ‘play’ on the international marketing stage as well, is the example what every aspiring athlete would like to have; beauty, intelligence, and a will-to-win attitude that makes her a champion both on and off the court.
Saturday’s win entitled the young star to a purse of 1.2 million dollars; and is fast propelling her into the realm of being as a very wealthy young woman. Upon completing her last set, Maria romped all over the New York stadium course, hugging her coaches, friends, and family who were all in attendance. As she made her victory ‘parade’ around the court, she screamed out: “this is really crazy! It can’t be happening to me!”
Tennis is one of the summer’s grand outdoor sports, which contests such as the French Open, Wimbledon, and, of course, the U.S. Open being feature on the summer venue. Other popular greats such as Andre Agassi, whose tennis ’swan song’ ended sadly for the American champion, were also featured at the match, which saw Serena Williams also bowing out early.
They say that champions are made, not born. But in Maria’s case, already coming from a very sport’s-minded family, both cases may very well be true.
The future appears very bright indeed for young Maria, who still has many successful playing years ahead of her. She has already appeared on a number of American TV talk shows, including Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, and Oprah Winfrey’s program. If she keeps this up, Maria will be able to look back one day as being one of the world’s most successful female tennis athletes.
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eeew, we’re havin fun now
Go Maria!
Excuse moi!
She’s 18, not 15! Israel has a potential rising star,
also from Russia, who is only 15. Who knows? Maybe
she’ll be the next Open Champion!
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