My ロシアの 遺産 is 非,不,無-negotiable, says Sharapova

LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova's life-changing move from Siberia to Florida as a seven-year-old propelled her on a path to fame and fortune but she says she would never turn her 支援する on her mother country.

It is いつかs 平易な to forget that five-times (野球の)満塁ホームラン,(テニスなどの)グランドスラム 支持する/優勝者 Sharapova, the world's highest-paid 女性(の) 競技者, is 現実に ロシアの until you 証言,証人/目撃する her 行為/行う a 地位,任命する-match 圧力(をかける) 会議/協議会 in her native tongue.

With $32 million in prize money alone, a string of lucrative 裏書,是認s, her own candy 商売/仕事 and even a famous boyfriend she is the living embodiment of the American dream.

Yet, Sharapova baulks at the idea that she would want to 貿易(する) her ロシアの パスポート for an American one, as former Czech Martina Navratilova did 早期に in her glittering career.

"I would have if I 手配中の,お尋ね者 to (change 市民権s) but it's never been 現実に a question in my family or in my team whether I 手配中の,お尋ね者 to change 市民権s," the ロシアの told CNBC in an interview to be 審査するd on Wednesday.

Sharapova, who won the Wimbledon 肩書を与える 老年の 17, still gives her all for Russia in the Fed Cup and was a たいまつ 持参人払いの at the Sochi Winter Olympics a year ago.

She said her ロシアの 遺産 moulded her instincts.

"It is about the family 環境, it is about the rich culture," the 27-year-old said.

"Just life experiences that I look 支援する to and I know that for so many years I was 形態/調整d into the individual I was from those experiences.

"And not やむを得ず 簡単に the country, but the people, the mentality and the toughness and that never giving up 態度."

World number two Sharapova will not have to 投機・賭ける too far from her 可決する・採択するd home at the Miami Open which starts this week.

Should the tournament go によれば 最高位のs she will play nemesis Serena Williams in the final.

She (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 the American in the 2004 Wimbledon final and again a few months later but lost the next 16, most recently in this year's Australian Open final.

But Sharapova said their 競争 still 燃やすd strong.

"She's at the 頂点(に達する) of her career. I am now number two in the world," she said. "I feel like we're still driven and hungry to be the best tennis players.

"I don't think anyone in the tennis world believed that, in 10 years' time, we would still be 競争相手s. I think it's an incredible story." (報告(する)/憶測ing by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)

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