Early life. Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Russian SFSR.Her parents, Yuri and Yelena, are from Gomel, Belarussian SSR.Concerned about the regional effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, they left their homeland shortly before Maria was born.. Introduction to tennis. In 1989, when Sharapova was two, the …

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