Meet Maria Sharapova.

Maria Sharapova was born in -19.4.1987 is a Russian tennis player, winner of five Grand Slam titles. Won all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning the tenth woman within it, and the sixth since the advent of professional tennis.

Beginning Of The Career.

It was her father who gave Sharapova to her first tennis racket at the age of 4, and as a result she and her father began regular practices in the local park. At the age of 6 Sharapova practiced tennis club in Moscow run by Martina Navratilova, who noted Ssrafobh talented but needs to train professionals. Navratilova recommended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida. Sharapova and her father moved to Florida in 1994, when he joined only two years later due to visa restrictions. Sharapova developed rapidly at the academy and began playing youth tournaments.
In 2001, Sharapova began the career of a tennis pro. In 2002, first entered into two major draws of tournaments round of WTA free card. In one of them she even managed to reach the second round and all this while is not ranked in the global cycle and when she was 14 and 10 months. Also this year, she won three tournaments in addition to the ITF competition was the youngest player Sharapova reached the finals of the Australian Open and Wimbledon Championships for Youth.

Drug Scandal.

Maria Sharapova’s admission that she had been caught using a banned drug is stunning in itself. Though her tennis game has been struggling for several years now, she had parlayed her sports career and glamour into a highly successful business, rising to be the highest paid female athlete in the world. Now she faces suspension from competition, and already major sponsors have suspended their deals with her. The news is a stark reminder of how pervasive doping has become at the highest levels of professional sport.

Ms. Sharapova, 28, acknowledged that she had tested positive for the recently banned drug meldonium at the Australian Open in January. She claimed that she had been using the drug since 2006 for a variety of medical conditions and somehow missed the notification from the World Anti-Doping Agency that it had been added to the prohibited list as of Jan 1. It’s not a particularly convincing story, since meldonium is not approved for use in the United States or most of Europe.

The World Anti-Doping Agency banned the drug because it helps athletes by delivering more oxygen to muscles. Several athletes have been suspended this year after testing positive for it, including two long-distance runners, two biathletes, a cyclist and an ice dancer. And a documentary by Hans-Joachim Seppelt, the German journalist who disclosed systematic doping among Russian athletes, referred to a 2015 study in which 17 percent of Russian athletes tested were found to have meldonium in their system.
. At least she did not deny the finding, saying at a news conference on Monday: “I have to take full responsibility because it’s my body and it’s what I put into my body and I can’t blame anyone but myself.”