Maria Sharapova on junior career: 'At that point, it's all about learning'
In a press conference Maria Sharapova recalled the time when she was a promising junior tennis player trying to breakthrough in the women's professional tennis. 'At that age it's all about experience', said Sharapova. 'I don't think there's really a bad experience you can have. When you're at that point in your career, you're just learning and everything is coming to you. You win or lose, you're benefitting from all of it. You learn if you lose the matches. If you win, you improve your ranking and so on, people notice you and all that. Yeah, it was an important time in my career 'cause those were the years where I kind of went from the juniors and started playing more pros. It's a pretty important transition for any player.'
'I've always liked competing, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than my cousin or just little things. I just always love competition, and I think also growing up I didn't necessarily get everything from everybody. My family was a great example of a mom and dad that worked for everything that they have today, and they are an example in my life. They were very hard workers. You know, growing up with them, I realized how important it is to have that, to have that nature around and to have them as my support, and you know, they -- I think we've worked for many things in our life, and you know, it takes a lot of work to earn something in life, whether it's little or big, whether it's a flower or money or whatever it is. You really learn to appreciate those things. That's something that I think I've gotten from my parents.'
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