The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of Maria Sharapova- child tennis star, global brand, survivor. In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right. This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents had fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival in the US with nothing and her phenomenal rise to success - winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her fight back. Here the five-time Grand Slam winner gives us candid insights into her relationship with her father, who gave up his job and life in Russia to dedicate himself to his daughter; the truth behind her famous rivalry with Serena Williams; the injuries and suspension controversy that threatened to end it all; and her recent battle to get back on court. Told with the same combative, no-holds-barred attitude as her game, it's a story of of crazy luck, mistakes, rivalries, sacrifice, survival and, above all, the constant, unwavering determination to win.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781846149788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238747484
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unstoppable: My Life So Far
Author
Maria Sharapova
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
561g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Maria Sharapova
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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