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Maria Sharapova's enduring charisma

Pics : Even after ten years Russian diva Maria Sharapova is a crowd puller at Wimbledon

"Ten years before her life-changing Wimbledon afternoon, Sharapova, leaving her mother behind in Russia, had headed for the famed Bollettieri tennis academy in Forida.Neither she nor father Yuri spoke any English and they arrived in the United States with just $700.