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During Women's Day, the sports website sport360 selected the 100 most influential women in the sports world, including female athletes who have achieved outstanding results, as well as coaches and sports managers. Because women in the Arab world have a special status and face greater challenges, the selection also deliberately lists Arab women as a separate category to encourage their efforts to assert themselves and change their environment in a more difficult environment. From today onwards, the series will introduce these outstanding women, because they are engaged in different sports and rank in no particular order.
Maria Sharapova, a Russian beauty with almost all the honors in women's tennis. She has won all four Grand Slams, as well as the WTA Year-End Finals and confederations cups. The only thing missing in Sharapova's honor book is an Olympic gold medal. However, the Olympic games are not important to the tennis player, let alone a silver medal is enough to prove her strength. Injuries and controversies have accompanied her throughout her career, but they have not prevented Sharapova from finishing third in the total prize money in women's tennis. Coming to the final stages of her career, her various efforts on the sidelines became increasingly compelling. That includes the sugarpova she founded, a company that sells candy in 22 countries around the world. She also led the Sharapova Women Entrepreneur Program to guide participants in expanding their business footprint.
About Sharapova:
In 2001, at the age of 14, she made her professional debut.
She is passionate about philanthropy and founded the Maria Sharapova Foundation to help children achieve their dreams. She also donated $100,000 to Chernobyl-related projects.
— She has been on Forbes' list of the most profitable female athletes for 11 consecutive years.
Sharapova anecdotes:
At the age of 4, Sharapova and her shy father left their homeland of Russia for the United States. There, they visited the legendary figure of women's tennis, Martina Navratilova. The latter was impressed by her talent and suggested that she start professional tennis training.
Sharapova said:
"Throughout my life, I have always been inspired by what women have achieved in professional sports. I see that the success of female athletes is no longer just obscure. Women can also be strong in the entrepreneurial field, with their own unique personality and brand. ”