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MONDAY,
OCTOBER
6,
2003 |
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| Russia's
new
16-year-old
tennis
discovery
Maria
Sharapova
won
two
WTA
Tour
titles
during
her
debut
year
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the
Bell
Challenge
in
Quebec
City
and
the
AIG
Japan
Open
in
Tokyo.
The
youngest
winner
on
the
WTA
Tour
in
2003,
she
completed
her
first
WTA
season
with
a
35-14
record.
She
began
hitting
tennis
balls
at
age
four
and
two
years
later
participated
in
a
tennis
exhibition
in
Moscow
that
featured
Martina
Navratilova.
Moved
to
Florida
at
age
nine
to
join
the
Nick
Bollettieri
Tennis
Academy. |
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| The
16-year-old
Russian,
who
fought
back
from
5-2
down
in
the
third-set
tiebreak
to
win
five
straight
points
in
a
nail-biting
climax
in
Tokyo,
then
appealed
for
no
more
comparisons
to
Ann
Kournikova. |
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| Sharapova
closed
out
with
a
well-placed
second
serve
on
her
third
match
point
that
the
unseeded
Kapros
failed
to
control
after
two
hours
and
10
minutes.
A
sobbing
Sharapova
hugged
her
father
Yuri.
who
had
raced
on
to
the
court
to
congratulate
her
at
the
end
of
the
stamina-sapping
final.
"
I
hope
I'm
not
going
to
get
any
more. |
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| Anna
Kournikova
questions
now!"
said
the
fifth-seeded
Sharapova,
dubbed
the
"
new
Kournikova
"
for
her
looks. |
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| "
It
feels
good
that
I
showed
that
in
a
final,
at
16
years
old,
I
can
pull
it
out.
I
think
it
shows
a
good
side,
the
side
of
a
champion
...
not
just
the
looks."
Fellow
Russian
Kournilova.
22,
has
not
won
a
singles
title
since
making
her
WTA
tour
debut
in
1995.
"
I
was
two
points
away
from
losing
the
match
but
somehow
I
pulled
it
through.
I
don't
know
how,
"
said
Sharapova. |
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| Born:
April
19,
1987 |
| Place
of
birth:
Nyagan,
Siberia |
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| Maria
Sharapova |
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