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| Country: | Russia |
| Residence: | Bradenton, Florida, USA |
| Height: | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight: | 59 kg (131 lbs) |
| Plays: | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Turned pro: | 2001 |
| Highest singles ranking: | 1 (2005/08/22) |
| Highest doubles ranking: | 41 (2004/06/14) |
| Singles titles: | 10 |
| Doubles Titles: | 3 |
| Career Prize Money: | $4,673,351 |
| Grand Slam Record Titles: 1 |
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| Australian Open | SF (2005, 2006) |
| French Open | QF (2004-05) |
| Wimbledon | W (2004) |
| U.S. Open | SF (2005) |
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова; born April 19, 1987) is a former World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player, and currently World No. 4. Her parents are originally from Homiel, Belarus, but moved to Russia in 1986 in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Sharapova was born in Nyagan, Russia, the following year. While having Belorussian roots and residing in the USA, Sharapova holds Russian citizenship.
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. 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.
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). She also became the first Russian ever to win that tournament.
Maria Sharapova uses the Prince Shark Racket and consequently the popularity of the racket has gone through the roof.
A 6 ft 2 in. and growing blonde, Sharapova is regarded by many as possessing a natural beauty and figure and has done some modeling in November 2003 with IMG Models. She enjoys fashion and is known to read celebrity magazines. However, she says she does not want to overdo these activities, preferring to focus on her tennis. She is often compared to Anna Kournikova, also a Russian Bollettieri student and model. However, Sharapova, Bollettieri, and Kournikova all reject the comparison.
From June 2004 until her Wimbledon semi-final appearance in 2005, Sharapova had a 22-match winning streak on grass, including back-to-back Birmingham titles and the Wimbledon crown. Sharapova's huge success continued after winning Wimbledon, with a victory at the WTA Season-Ending Championships and consistent results.
In November 2004, Sharapova signed a deal to represent Canon Inc. and promotes both their cameras and office products.
In April 2005, Sharapova was listed by People Magazine as among the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world. In June 2005, Forbes magazine listed Sharapova as the highest-paid female athlete in the world, with annual earnings of $18 million. A significant portion of this amount came from endorsements.
Defending her Wimbledon title in 2005 proved to be a simple enough task at first, with Sharapova sailing through to the semi-finals with ease without losing a set. However, she dropped her first set of the tournament against a rejuvenated Venus Williams and lost the match 6-7 1-6 in one of the most thrilling and masterful displays of power and accuracy seen in the women's game. Sharapova's streak on grass was ended, as was her quest for the No. 1 ranking, with Lindsay Davenport, who lost a historic match to Venus Williams in the 2005 Wimbledon final, holding firm.
However, a back injury that Davenport sustained in the Wimbledon final meant that she could not defend her titles won during the US hard court season of 2004. Because of this, she lost valuable ranking points. Sharapova was also suffering from an injury and did not complete a tournament during the season, but she had fewer points to defend and therefore rose to the No. 1 ranking on August 22, 2005. Sharapova's reign was short-lived, lasting only a week after Davenport re-ascended after winning the New Haven title. Sharapova rose to the No. 1 ranking again on September 12, 2005 despite losing in the Semi-finals of the US Open.
Her loss in the semifinal of the 2005 US Open against Kim Clijsters marked the fourth time that season that she lost at a Grand Slam tournament against the eventual champion: Australian Open-SF-Serena Williams, French Open-QF-Justine Henin-Hardenne, Wimbledon-SF-Venus Williams, US Open-SF-Kim Clijsters. That streak was broken in January 2006, when Sharapova lost in the Australian Open semi-final to Justine Henin-Hardenne. Henin-Hardenne went on to lose in the final of the Australian Open to Amelie Mauresmo, retiring due to a stomach ailement.
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Below are the kinds of markup element types in HTML. . Although perhaps less common now, the shorter form is still widely supported by current software. While having Belorussian roots and residing in the USA, Sharapova holds Russian citizenship. The most common extension for files containing HTML is .html, however, older operating systems, such as DOS, limit file extensions to three letters, so a .htm extension is also used. Sharapova was born in Nyagan, Russia, the following year. Minor editorial revisions to the HTML 4.0 specification were published as HTML 4.01. Her parents are originally from Homiel, Belarus, but moved to Russia in 1986 in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. HTML 4.0 likewise adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes, but at the same time began to try to "clean up" the standard by marking some of them as deprecated, and suggesting they not be used. 4. Math support as proposed by HTML 3.0 finally came about years later with a different standard, MathML. 1 Russian professional tennis player, and currently World No. HTML 3.1 was never officially proposed, and the next standard proposal was HTML 3.2 (code-named "Wilbur"), which dropped the majority of the new features in HTML 3.0 and instead adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes which had been created for the Netscape and Mosaic web browsers. Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова; born April 19, 1987) is a former World No. Even though it was designed to be compatible with HTML 2.0, it was too complex at the time to be implemented, and when the draft expired in September 1995 work in this direction was discontinued due to lack of browser support. 42. The HTML 3.0 standard was proposed by the newly formed W3C in March 1995, and provided many new capabilities such as support for tables, text flow around figures, and the display of complex math elements. New Straits Times, p. Work on HTML+ continued, but it never became a standard. 11, 2005). The first formal specification was therefore given the version number 2.0 in order to distinguish it from these unofficial "standards". (Nov. Work on a successor for HTML, then called "HTML+", began in late 1993, designed originally to be "A superset of HTML…which will allow a gradual rollover from the previous format of HTML". "Maria puts world domination on hold". That version did not include an IMG element type. 2005: Miami (lost to Kim Clijsters). However, some people consider the initial edition provided by Tim Berners-Lee to be the definitive HTML 1.0. 2004: Zurich (lost to Alicia Molik). There is no official standard HTML 1.0 specification because there were multiple informal HTML standards at the time. awarded the honorary Master of Sports of Russia title. . Named Russia's tennis federation as the country's best female player for the year. As such, many consider XHTML to be the "current version" of HTML, but it is a separate, parallel standard; the W3C continues to recommend the use of either XHTML 1.1, XHTML 1.0, or HTML 4.01 for web publishing. ESPY Best Female Tennis Player. XHTML, which applies the stricter rules of XML to HTML to make it easier to process and maintain, is the W3C's successor to HTML. WTA Player Service. Over time, the trend in the official standards has been to create an increasingly strict language syntax; however, browsers still continue to render pages that are far from valid HTML. WTA Most Improved Player of the Year. Web browsers commonly made assumptions about intent and proceeded with rendering of the page. WTA Player of the Year. Early versions of HTML were defined with looser syntactic rules which helped its adoption by those unfamiliar with web publishing. WTA Newcomer of the Year. Later HTML specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Originally defined by Tim Berners-Lee and further developed by the IETF with a simplified SGML syntax, HTML is now an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). HTML is used to structure information — denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists and so on — and can be used to describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document. In computing, 'HyperText Markup Language ' (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. potential security issues of simply rendering a complex format like HTML. potential security issues of deluding the recipient to accept an email as being from an authoritative source (such as a bank) when this is not the case; this is related to phishing scams. overuse of formatting (there was at one stage a craze for making letterheads using HTML and sending them as part of every e-mail). This issue is made slightly worse by the fact that, for compatibility, most clients send a plaintext version as well. the email has larger size because lots of formatting will be much larger than the plain text equivalent. the recipient may not have an email client that can display HTML. For example,. Links parts of the document to other documents. Hypertext markup. For example,. Describes the appearance of the text, regardless of its function. Presentational markup. For example,. Describes the purpose of text. Structural markup. (XHTML 2.0, W3C Working Draft). XHTML 1.1, published May 31, 2001. XHTML 1.0, published January 26, 2000 as a W3C Recommendation, later revised and republished August 1, 2002. ISO/IEC 15445:2000 ("ISO HTML", based on HTML 4.01 Strict), published May 15, 2000 as an ISO/IEC international standard. HTML 4.01, published December 24, 1999 as a W3C Recommendation. HTML 4.0, published December 18, 1997 as a W3C Recommendation. HTML 3.2, published January 14, 1997 as a W3C Recommendation. HTML 2.0, published November 1995 as IETF RFC 1866, and declared obsolete/historic by RFC 2854 in June 2000. Hypertext Markup Language (First Version), published June 1993 as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working draft (not standard). |