Maria Sharapova Displays Talent and Ruthlessness Beyond Her Years to Bring Serena Williams' Reign to an End, Reports Natasha Woods
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THE QUEEN IS DEAD A DECADE ago a dream carried Maria Sharapova and her father across the ocean to America. They arrived with just $700 in their pockets, but a burning ambition in their hearts. Yesterday the dream they shared all these years came true.
After one hour and 14 minutes of cool, commanding and compelling tennis a 17-year-old Russian, making her first appearance in a Grand Slam final, had astonishingly managed to dethrone reigning champion Serena Williams in straight sets 6-1, 6-4.See the full content of this document
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Maria Sharapova Displays Talent and Ruthlessness Beyond Her Years to Bring Serena Williams' Reign to an End, Reports Natasha Woods
When the No 1 seed put a return into the net on a second match point, Sharapova crumpled to her knees and threw her hands to her face to prevent the tears flooding on to a Centre Court which had now found a new queen.
High up in the players' box in Centre Court Yuri Sharapova was crying too. The man who had waited tables to help fund his daughter's t...See the full content of this document
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