Maria Sharapova Tennistica Career -Debuts

Maria, to the age of 7 years, comes capacity in the United States from the Jurij father, in order to attend the academy of tennis of Nick Bollettieri to Bradenton, in Florida.

In 2000 she participates to the Torneo Avvenire of Milan, classified to the tennisti under16. In end it is defeat from the Peng.

Always in Florida, in it you open them 2001, to the torneo of Sarasota, happens the debut of the Sharapova in circuit ITF, losing to the first turn in 3 set against the compatriot Karin Miller. Maria continues, during the rest of the year, to compete in the circuit juniores, in which she begins to signal itself like the promised new of the rinomata academy of Bollettieri.

In 2002 she happens instead the debut in the circuit WTA, thanks to the wild card obtained to Indian Wells: thanks to a sorteggio benevolent oppose that it to the n. 302 of the ranking, Brie Rippner, Maria, after to have lost of measure the first set, take courage and strike with authority the modest adversary. The Russian earns thus the honor to defy a legend, although in decline, as Monica Seles from which comes capacity to school and which wage pays of emotion and experience, embedding sonorous a 6-0, 6-2. The experience will be much positive one in terms of personality: Maria returns to circuit ITF and the successive torneo of Gunma sbaraglia all the adversaries without to grant to some set, replying the identical script to successive 2 tornei ITF to which she will participate, Vancouver (in which grants 1 single set in end) and Peachtree.

The Russian young has already demonstrated of being a Vincente, that ago to earn a wild card for its torneo second WTA, the Japan Open to Tokio, in which it is defeat to the first turn in match a a lot balanced from the Vigorous ones. Maria returns to circuit ITF, catching up 2 ends in last the 2 tornei of the year: with these result she closes a positive year sees that it to catch up the n.186 of ranking WTA.

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