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Birth Name: Maria Yuryevna Sharapova
Date of Birth: 19 April 1987
Place of Birth: Nyagan, Siberia, Russian Federation
Height: 5' 2½"
Occupation: Tennis Player
Education: High School: Keystone National High School, on-line, Sharapova studies via correspondence on the internet with the Keystone High School home schooling program and has a liking for sociology. As of 2004, she is in her second year of high school at 18 years of age.
Relations: Father: Uri Sharapov (tennis coach),Mother: Yelena Sharapova

Biography

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: ÐœÐ°Ñ€Ð¸ÌÑ Ð®ÌÑ€ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð¨Ð°Ñ€Ð°ÌÐ¿Ð¾Ð²Ð°; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player, and currently World No. 4. Her parents are originally from Homiel, Belarus, but moved to Russia in 1986 in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Sharapova was born in Nyagan, Russia, the following year.

At the age of three, Sharapova moved with her family to the resort town of Sochi, beginning to play tennis at the age of four, using a racquet given to her by Yevgeny Kafelnikov's father. At age five or six, at a tennis clinic in Moscow, Sharapova was spotted by Martina Navratilova, who urged her parents to get her serious coaching in the United States.

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