Maria Sharapova Russian tennis star started with one of the most sad news announced in 2020 season that she had decided to say goodbye to the world of tennis.
The 33-year-old former tennis player often lauds his parents for the fantastic career he has had and recently relived a touching story about his mother.
In an interview with the Second Life podcast, the former tennis player who last won a Grand Slam at the 2014 French Open, spoke of the moment when she won the first Grand Slam title of her career at Wimbledon when she was just 17.
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During her peak game, the mother of the former tennis player who won the French Open twice was on a flight and watched her daughter pursue her dream from 30,000 feet.
“The thing that comes to my mind is actually my mother, she was on a flight when I was playing the finals and that moment when a small television becomes something so big on a plane and she flies with the television on. And he saw me win from a height of 30,000 feet,” said Sharapova.
The former world number 1 won the Wimbledon title in the 2004 season when she was 17 against one of her bitter enemies, Serena Williams.
Her father is accompanying the former tennis player who has won five Grand Slam titles and in this hot moment, she tries to call her mother but she doesn’t realize that she is on a flight.
“In the field, I ran to my bag and I hugged my father, then I took my bag to take my cell phone and called my mother, forgetting that she was on the plane,” Sharapova exclaimed.
After the win at Wimbledon, the former tennis player’s mother also wanted to contact her daughter immediately.
“Meanwhile, my mother who was watching my match, tried to call me. He asks the flight attendants like, ‘Is there anything I can do, that’s my daughter. It was really a special moment,” continued Sharapova.
Maria Sharapova also talked about her family’s struggles when they moved from Russia to the US. They face a number of obstacles such as not being able to speak English. To make matters worse, her mother was unable to come to the US for the first two to three years after being constrained by a visa.
So the Russian tennis star and father are alone in a foreign land and are learning fast as time goes by. To be sure, all obstacles were passed and the rest were historical moments.
