Maria Sharapova's timeline: Young prodigy to a champion!

The shot to fame and success for the World No. 2, Maria Sharapova has definitely not been as clean and smooth as her tennis shots. There were times when she never saw her parents for months and slept in a dorm. There were times when her father had to work day and night to pay her coaching fees.She fought through all the troubled times and emerged a champion!

#1 Her birth!

 

The little Masha was born in Nyagan, Siberia. Her parents had escaped from Gomel, Belarus in 1986 to avoid the repercussions of the Chernobyl disaster. They moved to Nyagan, where Elana, delivered the baby on 19th April, 1987. Sharapova is the only daughter of Elana Sharapova and Yuri Sharapova. After the delivery, the couple and the kid settled in Sochi, home to Russian tennis star, Yevgeny Kafelnikov.