Maria Sharapova has gone from winning Wimbledon 10 years ago as a shy teen... to a business tycoon worth $150m
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By MIKE DICKSON
PUBLISHED: 22:31 GMT, 20 June 2014 | UPDATED: 15:18 GMT, 21 June 2014
Eisenbud recalls how they took a hard-headed view: ‘After she won Wimbledon, her life changed. We were offered everything going but we didn’t want Maria to end up like Anna Kournikova.’
Ten years on, that appears to have been a wise course of action. Sharapova, while curiously not having added to her Wimbledon tally, is still winning Grand Slam titles but has also acquired riches beyond most athletes’ dreams. Kournikova, meanwhile, is largely forgotten.
Only two weeks ago, Sharapova was posing with her second French Open title in front of the Eiffel Tower. She couples this with topping the Forbes list of highest earning female athletes.
The 27-year-old Russian’s net worth is estimated at $150million (£88m) and her annual earnings at around $27m (£15.9m). Her dual success on and off the court is a phenomenon. As Sharapova admits, she had little idea what that 2004 triumph at the All England Club would bring.
Eisenbud played tennis on the American college circuit and graduated to become the manager of IMG’s junior talent programme.
‘I saw her play for the first time at Bradenton (Nick Bollettieri’s academy), aged nine,’ he says. ‘It was like when you look at that video of the young Tiger Woods. She practised non-stop for an hour and a half and didn’t even drink any water.’
‘Maria is great at compartmentalising the tennis stuff and all the stuff off the court. She is going to be very successful in business when she is done playing. When she has 300 days per year to devote to it, it will be good, and she is putting all the foundations in.’
Asked when that day might come, he replies: ‘About four or five years, it could be less.’
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