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Feb 2022
33m 26s

Encore Episode: Maria Sharapova Talks Te...

Rebecca Minkoff
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Maria Sharapova was born in Siberia, raised in Sochi and then, at age 6, moved to the U.S., and she hasn’t really stopped moving since. The tennis sensation who won Wimbledon at 17 and 5 Grand Slam titles in the years since has honed a level of focus so intense that at times she seems more like a Buddhist monk than a star athlete. This stoic concentration ha ... Show More
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