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Мария Шарапова: Соперницы боятся меня?

Maria Sharapova has been one of the greatest tennis champions ever, having won five Grand Slam titles and played many important matches. Can a top player like her be intimidating towards her opponents? 'Just because I'm tall maybe, but not because of anything else', Sharapova said.

'I'm actually usually one of the few that's very shy in the room, so I definitely don't see it that way. I think obviously I've worked really hard to gain kind of a position where people know how I can play and know I'll be that player that will never give up.

I think that sometimes is intimidating because they know they have to work extremely hard to finish the match. I always feel that's a good position to be in, but it doesn't make me on any higher podium than anyone else in the room.' Sharapova also spoke about her incredible love for the competition: 'I've loved it from a very young age, whether it's just being first in line, eating something faster than a friend of mine, I don't know, demonstrating a drill on the court when there were people on the court.

I always wanted to be the first one. That was always a type of competition for me. There are different ways of expressing that competitiveness for me. When you're deep in the third set, that feeling, that's what I worked so hard for, to get out of that situation on a good note.

Maybe other people really don't want to put themselves in that situation. Actually, when I get there, I don't think, Well, I must have lost the set and I did something wrong. I think I got myself in this position and I have to fight my way through it to win the match.

I've always thought that maybe my mentality is a little bit different.' .

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Россиянка Мария Шарапова ответила на вопрос, почему многие теннисистки её боятся.

"Не знаю, возможно, дело в моём росте. Других причин я не вижу. Я довольно застенчива в компании, поэтому никогда не рассматривала ситуацию в этом ключе. Всем известно, что я проделала большую работу, чтобы добиться своего нынешнего положения. Люди знают, на что я способна и что я никогда не сдаюсь.

Возможно, это пугает. Ведь соперницам нужно приложить максимум усилий для победы надо мной, и они это знают. Однако это не делает меня лучше любого присутствующего в комнате", - приводит слова Шараповой Tennis World USA.