Sharapova thinks his size is the result of the Chernobyl disaster – Tennis – Apollo.lv – Sports

The parents of the athlete lived in the present Belorussian city of Gomel, 150 kilometers from Chernobyl. In 1986, a nuclear reactor explosion occurred.

"Shortly after the explosion, my mother was working in the garden.It was left in that night.Already at night, when the reactor exploded in the city, horror stories spread ", she writes in her autobiography.

Four months after the accident, Sharapova's mother, Yelena, learned that she was pregnant. It is an event that forced the family to leave Gomel so as not to risk the health and life of a child.

"Chernobyl was terribly terrible, radiation killed everything that lived, it was an invisible death."

Sharapova thinks that the four months spent in Gomel by her family have not been without consequences. "When we went back there for many years, we were amazed by the huge mushrooms of the forest.Everyone said it was due to radiation.That's why I had My parents are average people but I have 88 meters.

Sharapova, who has been a ranking leader several times in the past, has been disqualified for using the banned meldon for 21 weeks together.

After being disqualified, Sharapova returned to the competition in late April and won the Tianjin WTA International in China in October for his 36th and final WTA career.

During her career, Sharapova has won five Grand Slam titles.

Sharapova first became world leader for the first time in 2005, but for the last time in mid-2012, the top tennis summit was at the top of the ranking for four weeks . The leader of rank has become five times during his career.

Sharapova is for many years the most profitable tennis player on the planet because she has a very lucrative sponsorship contract and the athlete is involved in the company because her name produces candies.