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Scene One: Wimbledon Open 2004
‘Oh my God … it’s unreal … it’s unreal.
It’s amazing really… it was always my dream but I never in a million years thought this would happen so quickly.
I didn’t think (about winning) but I kept believing in myself… I kept faith. It’s just amazing.
To tell you the truth I don’t know what happened in the match, what the tactics were or how I won. I was in my own little world out there.
Scene Two: French Open 2012
This is what I’ve always wanted to achieve. No matter how tough it was, no matter how many people didn’t believe in me, didn’t think that I could get to this point, I didn’t care and I didn’t listen.
I always listened to my own voice, and it always told me that for some reason I’m meant to be better. I’m meant to succeed again. And I did.
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said; I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small.
But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.
I have a tremendous amount of belief and pride in what I do. I love my work. I’ve always said this. I love playing tennis and it’s the most unique moment in my career.
From Wimbledon Open’s, It’s unreal to French Open’s, ‘This is what I’ve always wanted to achieve. No matter how tough it was’, is the tale a true champion. And this is what Maria Sharapova has been through in her 9 years long career.
Maria Sharapova is not a he-came-he-saw-he-conquered type of a champion. She has been through some career-threatening moments. She has practically lived a dream and followed it with a heart and a brain. She has a childhood where she finds a father who worked as dish-washer at a hotel, just to get her tennis going. She faced early-exits in the first two grand slam tournaments. She had an unusual challenge of being compared with the then tennis star-turned-model Anna Kournikova that she will also find her future in modeling but she kept on telling the world that her dream, her future, her career and her priority was different and it was never modeling but tennis.
She proved that she was no more a ‘cow on ice’ but can become queen of ice, clay, grass and wherever she plays on.
A SAGA OF BRILLIANCE
At the 2012 French Open, another super player, Raphael Nadal, managed to win the title to set a new record. During this tournament, he won all six matches before facing Novak Djokovic in the final. This marked the first time where two opposing players faced each other in four consecutive Grand Slams finals. They also became the only players to have faced the same opponent in the finals of all four Majors. Nadal eventually won 6′ 4, 6′ 3, 2′ 6, 7′ 5 after multiple rain delays forced the final to be concluded on the following Monday afternoon. Throughout the tournament, Nadal lost only one set, occurring in the final. By winning his seventh title at Roland Garros, Nadal surpassed Borg’s overall titles record to become the most successful tennis player in French Open history.
