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Книга Марии: Мнения

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На английском есть уже несколько мнений, наверное скоро появятся и на русском (а может быть уже есть, но я их не знаю).

Не буду выставлять ни одного мнения, но здесь выложу и буду добавлять ссылки разных мнений.

Кому интересно, может прочитать их по ссылкам.

1. Maria Sharapova’s Unstoppable May Just Be the Best Part of Her Comeback Tour

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 5:07 AM

by JULIA FELSENTHAL

https://www.vogue.com/article/maria-sharapova-unstoppable-memoir-review

2. The Most Brilliant Autobiography for Tennis Fans – a Review

September 2, 2017

by Olivia Wild

https://oliviawildbooks.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/the-most-brilliant-autobiography-for-tennis-fans-a-review/

3. Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova — breaking back

A tennis star known for paying attention to her brand has produced a compelling memoir

by: David Shaftel

Maria Sharapova overheard Serena Williams crying. That’s it, the big reveal in Unstoppable, Sharapova’s much-anticipated new memoir. Williams, says Sharapova, has hated her ever since.

The tears in question came after their first match, the 2004 Wimbledon final, in which the 17-year-old Russian upstart upset the defending champion. After the match, Sharapova entered the locker room. “What I heard, when I came in and started to change clothes, was Serena sobbing,” Sharapova writes.

There’s been bad blood ever since. “I think she hated me for taking something that she believed belonged to her,” Sharapova said. “But mostly I think she hated me for hearing her cry. She’s never forgiven me for it.”

The frigidity between the two is well known in tennis, and Williams has unquestionably channelled it to her advantage, winning 19 of the 20 matches they’ve since played.

Sharapova’s abysmal record against Williams compels her to be gracious. “She’s owned me,” the Russian says. But Sharapova also writes of being in awe of the Williams sisters as a child and admires Serena’s intimidating on-court demeanour, which mirrors Sharapova’s own. And like Williams, Sharapova has her own overbearing and eccentric stage father, Yuri Sharapov, responsible for guiding his child from threadbare origins to the sport’s upper echelon.

The surprisingly compelling Unstoppable is at its best when recounting Sharapova’s fraught early life. Sharapov, by force of sheer will, relocated his young daughter first from Gomel, in “the land of radiation” near Chernobyl, to the Black Sea resort town of Sochi. When Masha, as Sharapova was known then, was six, she and her father flew to South Florida, the American capital of tennis. They slept on sofas, relied on the kindness of strangers and snuck on to private courts to train, eventually turning up unannounced at the academy of the renowned coach, Nick Bollettieri. Amid the rich kids, Sharapova appeared “with a single change of clothes, an oversized chopped-down racket, and shoes from a factory in Minsk”.

Besides her success on the court, Sharapova’s career has also been defined for her prowess as a pitchwoman, which she says made her the target of jealousy. She signed her first deal with Nike when she was 11 and her 18th birthday party was sponsored by Motorola. More recently, she launched Sugarpova, a candy line. Because she’s always kept a beady eye on her brand, it’s apt that Sharapova recruited non-fiction master Rich Cohen as her collaborator here.

It’s Cohen’s polish that elevates Unstoppable. The writer’s own family memoir, Sweet and Low, is fantastic, and he has written engaging books on topics ranging from The Rolling Stones to the history of Israel. When Sharapova speaks of her father celebrating her Wimbledon victory by drinking “until the night itself was defeated”, it’s surely Cohen’s voice breaching the surface.

The last portion of Unstoppable is an occasionally rote retelling of the ups and downs of Sharapova’s career since her breakthrough. Of those lows, none compares with her positive test for Meldonium — a drug that potentially improves heart efficiency — at the start of the 2016 season, a time which Sharapova reveals she was considering retirement.

Sharapova writes that she started taking Meldonium in 2006 after a series of irregular electrocardiogram tests and had been taking it ever since, “as you might take baby aspirin to ward off heart attack or stroke”. Meldonium is sold over the counter in eastern Europe and was used frequently by athletes from the region. Sharapova claims that she literally missed the memo that Meldonium had been outlawed. A panel reviewing the matter determined that Sharapova had not intended to cheat, but nevertheless sentenced her to a two-year ban, later commuted to 15 months. Tellingly, no sponsor ended up dropping her permanently over the doping suspension.

Sharapova’s comeback began in April and finally gained momentum this month with a run to the fourth round at the US Open, which concludes this weekend. If nothing else, writes Sharapova, the ban has strengthened her resolve to keep playing “until they take down the nets. Until they burn my rackets. Until they stop me. And I want to see them try.”

Unstoppable: My Life So Far, by Maria Sharapova, Particular Books, RRP£20/Sarah Crichton Books, RRP$28, 304 pages

David Shaftel is the editor of Racquet, a quarterly journal of tennis

https://www.ft.com/content/31c83bc4-9221-11e7-83ab-f4624cccbabe

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