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Unstoppable

My Life so Far

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Unstoppable

By: Maria Sharapova
Narrated by: Maria Sharapova
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Unstoppable written and read by Maria Sharapova.

The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova

In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right.

This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival in the US with nothing and her phenomenal rise to success - winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her fight back. Here the five-time Grand Slam winner gives us candid insights into her relationship with her father, who gave up his job and life in Russia to dedicate himself to his daughter; the truth behind her famous rivalry with Serena Williams; the injuries and suspension controversy that threatened to end it all; and her recent battle to get back on court.

Told with the same combative, no-holds-barred attitude as her game, it's a story of crazy luck, mistakes, rivalries, sacrifice, survival and, above all, the constant, unwavering determination to win.

©2017 Maria Sharapova (P)2017 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

An illuminating account ... Unstoppable is about everything that made Sharapova the kind of unflappable competitor who wouldn't let a 15-month service interruption, or the very vocal disapproval of her peers, come between her and her ambition. This is the bildungsroman of a controversial champion, a portrait of the athlete as an uncommonly driven young woman (Julia Felsenthal)
A fascinating and well-written insight into her struggles, triumphs, obsession with Williams, Russian pessimism and the roots of that famous haughtiness (Simon Hattenstone)
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Le fait que ça soit Maria qui parle est un vrai plus.
L’histoire est incroyable, c’est bien écrit et c’est très agréable à écouter

Just loved it

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A very good read , understanding a tennis life and how hard it is day in and day out

A good read

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This is such a fantastic book read superbly by Maria herself.
She tells of her very humble begining to her rise to super stardom and dealing with the doping episode. Maria doesn't big herself up in anyway and always stays grounded as her star rose rapidly.

I love that Maria is also the auditor, it feels so personal.
A great book and highly recommended.

A Grand Slam read!

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Strong, iconic and inspirational. Maria Sharapova has it all, it’s so good to listen to the rise and fall and rise again of her career. Massive fan of hers and even more so after hearing this ❤️

Inspirational

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A good insight into the making and the required work ethic of a top sports woman

Excellent listen

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