Los Angeles Times: Maria Sharapova goes from Winter Games to desert tennis

By Art Spander
Special to the Times

She went back to where it all started, to the wall in Sochi. Maria Sharapova, out of boredom really, as a child began smacking a tennis ball while her father played his weekly game a few feet away.

"My career started in Sochi," Sharapova said Wednesday, reviewing her trip home and to the Winter Olympics.

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