{"id":39786,"date":"2004-12-01T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39786"},"modified":"2014-12-06T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T15:36:21","slug":"marias-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39786","title":{"rendered":"Maria&#8217;s mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the darlings of the game indeed had to c<span class=\"hps\">rosses<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">over the\u00a0mountains and\u00a0seas<\/span>\u00a0[\u7ffb\u5c71\u8fc7\u6d77] to jump start her career.<\/p>\n<p>The Wimbledon final in 2004\u00a0was Maria Sharapova&#8217;s coming out party.\u00a0Unexpectedly the 17-year old\u00a0found herself on the same court with the six-time grand slam owner Serena Williams. How did she\u00a0elk outthe\u00a0two-time defending champion\u00a0was somewhat drowned in her nonstop thunderous grunts. I did not remember how convincingly she\u00a0won her first slam:\u00a06\u20131 and 6\u20134 (I cheated: googled it) but remembered the comments from\u00a0the NBC sportscaster\u00a0Mary Carillo who recounted her journey from Siberia to the sunny Florida. Her repeat fanning of\u00a0Maria&#8217;s\u00a0separation from her mother for two years in order to pursue her career left me bemused:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came with her father from Siberia and did not see her mom for t-w-o y-e-a-r-s. She was only seven years old!\u201d The seasoned commentator stressed it r-e-p-e-a-t-e-d-l-y and would resume repeating it many more times at a few subsequent tournaments when Sharapova played. I was\u00a0a little dumbfounded.<\/p>\n<p>Really Mary?<\/p>\n<p>What was so hard being separated from your mother?<\/p>\n<p>Two years away from her mother, with her loving Dad, was hard to endure? <del>Is it the American entitlement or American\u2019s family value at it fullest?<\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the darlings of the game indeed had to crosses over the\u00a0mountains and\u00a0seas\u00a0[\u7ffb\u5c71\u8fc7\u6d77] to jump start her career. The Wimbledon final in 2004\u00a0was Maria Sharapova&#8217;s coming out party.\u00a0Unexpectedly the 17-year old\u00a0found herself on the same court with the six-time grand slam owner Serena Williams. How did she\u00a0elk outthe\u00a0two-time defending champion\u00a0was somewhat drowned in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}