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Agent Max Eisenbud has told a pretty great story about how Maria Sharapova’s father celebrated the Russian’s 2004 Wimbledon win by withdrawing $10,000 from the bank and then partying for a week with his friends in mountains.
In 2004, a 17-year-old Sharapova became a Grand Slam champion in quite some style as she dismantled defending champion Serena Williams 6-1 6-4 in the final. That year, Sharapova also defeated former world No. 1 Lindsay Davenport in the semifinal en route to winning the title at The Championships.
Following her astonishing 2004 Wimbledon run, Sharapova – who was 17 years and 75 days old at the time of her win – instantly became a global superstar and tipped to do major things in the future.
Yuri Sharapov – who moved with Maria to the United States in 1994 after being advised to do so because that would give his daughter the best chance at succeeding at tennis – celebrated hard his daughter’s Wimbledon success as for a week no one saw him except his friends who went with him.
“When she won (Wimbledon 2004), he wanted, he made us go to the bank, you know the bank on the side of Wimbledon to get $10,000,” Eisenbud said on the Served with Andy…
