访谈录 2013-05-21&05-23 网坛美女莎拉波娃专访

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Arriving French Open Champion, Maria Sharapova is clearly in the d* focused on defending her fisrt ever Roland Garros crown¹. The world number two had always struggled on the clay until she found * a year ago and rise to the title.

-I do enjoy a little bit more now, just because I feel like I work on that aspect of my game and I really improved and now I feel I don't have any excuses. When I get to the court and when I'm moving around, like just because I don't feel great one day, I can't, you know, I can't really won about it, because at the end of the day I did win the French Champion. So after, my myself * times.

The French Open, when kicked off back a year, for * Sharapova briefly² regain³ the world number one ranking, win the silver medal for Russia at London Olympics and be n* for the most successful female⁴ athlete.

-I do make, you know, great money for a living and, you know, for one who wanna play tennis again, have enough money to live for the rest of my life, but I do respect the money that I've made because I didn't grow up having a lot of money. It's so important to be able to look back those days and think, you know, I really came from nothing. You know, we had a dream and I had a talent and we moved to the United States.

Her hard work paid off, when she astounded⁵ the world and won Wimbledon in 2004. Grand Slam⁶ titles followed, the US Open in 2006 and Australia Open in 2008. In 2012, Sharapova won the French Open and completed a career slam.

-I don't know, it's lucky or if it just things follow to play, so the four Grand Slams⁷ I won, or all four of them, that were different. You know, who knows what the future will bring me and who knows what I may add to that list, but so far I can say that, yeah, I'm pretty fortunate to be one of the few that has achieved that.