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| Maria Sharapova Aiming to Spin Back to the Top |
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January 02, 2011
MARIA SHARAPOVA has vowed to return to the top of women's tennis.
The superstar former No.1 said she wants to make the ASB Classic, starting in Auckland tomorrow, the place where she launches her renaissance.
The tournament's top seed spoke to the New Zealand media for the first time yesterday since arriving in Auckland on Tuesday and vowed to get back to where she was earlier in her career. |
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| All Play, Hard Work for Russian Queen Maria Sharapova |
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January 01, 2011
She's one of the most photographed women in the world. And as odd as it may sound the thing Maria Sharapova is most grateful for on her first visit to Auckland is: "no one has tried to take a picture of me eating a bowl of bolognese pasta with meat sauce all over my face".
That and other little gems is what an expectant press pack found out when the tennis beauty queen, the top seed at this year's ASB Classic, was paraded in front of us yesterday. Apparently, well-meaning fans have a habit of snapping her when she has "meat sauce" on her face, a habit she's not that fond of.
She is after all supposed to be a glamour-puss. |
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| Russian Queen Maria Sharapova's First NZ Visit all Business |
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January 01, 2011
The glamour girl of world tennis is all business here in New Zealand.
Maria Sharapova has spoken to the media for the first time since arriving for next week's ASB Classic, and the Russian megastar's focussed on starting the year in style.
She showed off her sense of humour, but is serious about her reasons for being in Auckland.
Brushing the lucrative exhibition matches she usually starts her season with, Sharapova's on our shores to be tested.
"My last tournament was over two months ago, I've been really eager to get back and play a tournament," she says. "I wanted to change it up this year, it's my first time in New Zealand." |
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| Tennis Star: Maria Sharapova has Ultimate Pulling Power |
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December 31, 2010
In recent years New Zealand has provided safe harbour for a galleon-full of Spanish men headed to Australia.
Seduced by over-inflated rankings achieved behind the baseline on dirt courts, the Armada - as they are inevitably dubbed - more often than not flatters to deceive.
Despite the numbers who pass through here, only one Spaniard, David Ferrer, has won the Heineken Open.
The ASB Classic, which begins in Auckland on Monday, has looked to Siberia rather than Iberia. Four Russians have made it into the main draw, and Elena Bovina may join them through the qualifying rounds.
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| Fate Plays Strong Hand in Maria Sharapova's Life |
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December 31, 2010
In every sporting superstar's life you can point to a flashpoint, or points, where their life made the jump from ordinary to extraordinary.
It can come in many forms: the gift of a racquet or a bat; the faith shown by a coach; or even being scared back on to the rails after a troubled adolescence.
If you were to pinpoint the moment when Maria Sharapova seemed destined for a life less ordinary, you would have to go back to the weeks before her conception.
On April 26, 1986, reactor four failed at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, sending a massive plume of radioactive fallout into the air. |
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