Unstoppable: My Life So Far

Author: Sharapova, MariaBrand: Sarah Crichton BooksEdition: First EditionFeatures: Signed By Author Hardcover First Edition Binding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 304Release Date: 12-09-2017Part Number: 26602857Details: *One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2017* From the five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, the candid, captivating story of her rise to tennis stardom 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. The two have arrived from Russia with only seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old will be the next tennis star. Amazingly, they are right. Young Maria Sharapova went on to win Wimbledon at just seventeen years old, in an astonishing upset against the reigning champion Serena Williams―the match that kicked off their legendary rivalry and placed Sharapova on the i