The fiercely honest fearless darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova In the middle of the night a father & his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida & head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy They ring the bell though no one is expecting them & they don't speak English They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars & 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 & 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 & her phenomenal rise to success
- winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen
- to the disasters that threatened her career & 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 & life in Russia to dedicate himself to his daughter; the truth behind her famous rivalry with Serena Williams; the injuries & suspension controversy that threatened to end it all; & 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 & above all the constant unwavering determination to win