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Sharapova may still be child-like in some ways, but the youngster has a sharp awareness of the way the world works that is mature beyond her years. She insists on her merits as a tennis player and rejects the notion that she be typecast as a pin-up in the mould of Anna Kournikova. By the way, Sharapova is the first Russian, man or woman, to win at Wimbledon and she follows in the footsteps of compatriot Anastasia Myskina who won the French Open in Paris last month. Getty Images
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