(Photo : Mike Owen/Getty Images) MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Maria Sharapova of Russia practices forward of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 19, 2020, in Melbourne, Australia.
Maria Sharapova received 5 Grand Slam titles in her profession, and for a time, she was even thought of an amazing rival of the feminine tennis best of all time Serena Williams.
That ought to entitle her to get some props as one in every of tennis’ finest.
However, her former agent Max Eisenbud doesn’t see it that means. For him, the Russian star is the worst athlete ever to win a Grand Slam.
That’s not a dig on his former participant, although. Max solely thinks she is the worst due to her completely different talent units in comparison with different gamers.
“I mean, I tell people all the time she’s probably the worst athlete that, and I’ll tell her if she was here (laughing), the worst athlete to ever win a Grand Slam,” Eisenbud stated throughout an look at The Tennis Podcast.
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“She can’t throw, she can’t pass, she has no touch but she willed her way.”
The agent added that distinction is what Sharapova used to climb her solution to the highest.
“I think she was the most mentally strong players to ever play the game and I would put her on that list with all that great champions.”
Moving on with a brand new venture
Sharapova has lengthy retired, and Eisenbud has a brand new consumer in 20-year-old Emma Raducanu.
The agent can not help however marvel at what the British smasher did within the 2021 US Open.
Then 18 years previous Raducanu received the US Open to turn into the primary qualifier to win the match. Not solely that, she did it with out dropping a set your entire match.
“That was incredible. What she did will never happen again,” he stated in the identical podcast.
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