Women Tennis Players: What Happened to Sharapova?

@healwell (1268)
Ahmedabad, India
July 12, 2007 2:14am CST
We all knew now that since last few months, say after last year Wimbeldan, Maria Sharapova is loosing continuously, axcept few titles! Why? Just think about what happened to Anna Kournikova? She was really talented and beautyful. Her tennis was also good and was able to beat any good player and she had done that too! She had shown lots of sparks to become number one tennis player!...But the media and advertising agencies have invited her for big big companies related with sports wearings and rackets and so on... Then gradually she was drawn for big money and the glamour! ...And within two years she was no more remembered as tennis player, but remembered on tennis ground as a player earning lots of more from advertisement than tennis! ...And here now Maria Sharapova, another Russian player, considering now as Russian beauty and lead by now advertising agencies by providing more money from advertisement ... And she is loosing... the count down of her tennis player title and identity is now in danger! What do you think about this? Is this not a fact?
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lifeluver
@lifeluver (743)
• Canada
12 Jul 07
How unfortunate that this is happening. I think it is true that these people have gotten caught up in the money and media fame. Also, they must have less time to practice their sport which, I'm sure, has an effect also. I don't like that money can do this sort of thing to people, and it seems that the media exploits certain types of people. We all know that people in Russia generally struggle financially and since sport is no longer covered by the government, this makes Russian atheletes more vunerable to media exploitation. That's what I think....
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Barin Mehta -Healwell
@healwell (1268)
• Ahmedabad, India
13 Jul 07
William sisters also once traped in this vicious circle and they faced defeats again and again! So they stopped now and looked for the game, care for practice and they are really back on the court! And started winning again!
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rohitdinho
@rohitdinho (189)
• India
15 Jul 07
glamour ruined 'em all..though i feel sharapova still has a gud flourishin future ahead of all..kournikova was a total waste of tennis court space..btw russian chicks r hot.!!lolz.!!