
Unstoppable
My Life so Far
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Maria Sharapova
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By:
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Maria Sharapova
About this listen
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Unstoppable written and read by Maria Sharapova.
The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova
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. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right.
This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival in the US with nothing and her phenomenal rise to success - winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her fight back. Here the five-time Grand Slam winner gives us candid insights into her relationship with her father, who gave up his job and life in Russia to dedicate himself to his daughter; the truth behind her famous rivalry with Serena Williams; the injuries and suspension controversy that threatened to end it all; and her recent battle to get back on court.
Told with the same combative, no-holds-barred attitude as her game, it's a story of crazy luck, mistakes, rivalries, sacrifice, survival and, above all, the constant, unwavering determination to win.
©2017 Maria Sharapova (P)2017 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
I love Maria
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All the struggles Sharapova went through, how she overcame them, the lessons she learned along the way captured beautifully.
It's a story. A story of a dream of a father and a daughter. There are love, war, betrayal, good luck, bad luck, reaching the peak and then falling down due to an injury, then getting back again on top. The book starts with her 2016 ban on dope test failure and ends with this event again. Sharapova perfectly recounts how she faced everything-- from being a little girl with a big dream to the ultimate status of stardom-- and her becoming one of the best female tennis players in history.
I also love the way Sharapova tells the story. Brutally honest-- no sugar coating. She has that no BS attitude that I loved most. She opened up about the rivalry between her and Serena Williams, about her past relationships, her coaches and everything in between with such a clear cut mentality-- it was wonderful.
At last, I would say that the fact that Sharapova herself read the story made this book a fantastic thing to listen. I was feeling lucky that Sharapova herself is telling the story of her life, to me, an ordinary person.
OMG! Where do I begin? I absolutely loved it!!!
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I recommend it to every tennis/sports fan
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Exceptional!
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Some of my favourite parts:
“No one can be great everyday. Can you get it done on the ugly days when you feel like garbage and the tank is empty? i’ve been close to flawless on a few lucky afternoons, I can count them on one hand. But it’s usually a question of figuring out how to win with what ever I’ve got. There’s so many matches I have won just by figuring out how to sneak by.”
“If you want to survive you have to have a short memory. It’s important to remember but it’s more important to forget. Learn what you can and remember what you’ve learned. It’s best just to forget.”
I’m not a tennis fan, but I couldn’t put it down.
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