Maria Sharapova

2004. As of 11 June 2005 he has scored 10 goals in 24 appearances for his country. 2003. He also represented Portugal at the 2004 Olympic Games. Sharapova studies via correspondence on the internet with the Keystone High School home schooling program and has a liking for sociology. Though the tournament ended in disappointment for Ronaldo, he had truly come of age as a player. By reaching her second Birmingham final in 2005, Sharapova has a 17-match winning streak on grass (dating back to June 2004). The final saw a rematch of the opening game of the tournament and again, Greece emerged victorious.

However, Sharapova, Bollettieri, and Kournikova all reject the comparison. He scored Portugal's only goal in their 2-1 loss to Greece in the opening match of Euro 2004, and the first goal of the semi final against the Netherlands which Portugal won 2-1. She is often compared to Anna Kournikova, also a Russian Bollettieri student and model. Ronaldo made his international debut in August 2003, against Kazakhstan. However, she says she does not want to overdo these activities, preferring to focus on her tennis. Is currently dating Australian brunette Kylie Richardson who plans to move to Manchester later in the year to support Cristiano and be closer to him. She enjoys fashion and is known to read celebrity magazines. The doubts over his 'flashy' style and perceived inability to produce an 'end product', the final killer cross or pass to set-up a goal, must surely now have been allayed, as Ronaldo has consistently been one of United's most dedicated and effective players in a season of highs and lows. United reached the FA Cup final, but had disappointing campaigns in the Premier League and Champions League.

A 6 foot blonde, Sharapova is regarded by many as possessing a natural beauty and figure and has done some modeling, having signed a contract in November 2003 with IMG Models. In his second season at United, Ronaldo has grown as a player, notably starring in the memorable 4-2 demolition of champions Arsenal at their Highbury stadium. In the process she also became the first Russian ever to win that tournament. He demonstrated these at the 2004 FA Cup final in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, in which he starred, scoring the first goal in United's 3-0 win over Millwall. In 2004, Sharapova became the second youngest Wimbledon women's champion in the Open Era (after Martina Hingis) by defeating defending two-time champion Serena Williams in straight sets (6-1, 6-4). Now plying his trade for the English giants, Ronaldo has earned a equal amounts of praise and criticism for his flashy style of play and dribbling tricks. At age five or six, at a tennis clinic in Moscow, Sharapova was spotted by Martina Navratilova, who urged her parents to get her serious coaching in the United States. Able to use either foot and play on both sides of the pitch, he attracted the attentions of Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2003, when Sporting Lisbon beat Manchester United 3-1 in the inauguration of the Alvalade XXI stadium.

At the age of three, Sharapova moved with her family to the resort town of Sochi, beginning to play tennis at the age of four, using a racquet given to her by Yevgeny Kafelnikov's father. Widely regarded as one of the premier talents in European football, Ronaldo originally played for Portuguese team Sporting Lisbon, a team famous for producing Real Madrid star Luis Figo. Sharapova was born in Nyagan, Siberia, the following year. Cristiano Ronaldo (full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro; born February 5, 1985, Madeira, Portugal) was signed by Manchester United in 2003 for £12.24m. Her parents are originally from Gomel, Belarus, but moved to Russia in 1986 in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.

2005: Miami (lost to Kim Clijsters). 2004: Zurich (lost to Alicia Molik). WTA Player Service. WTA Most Improved Player of the Year.

WTA Player of the Year. WTA Newcomer of the Year.