Maria Sharapova delivers a forehand against Kristina Mladenovic during the IPTL Manila leg at SM MOA Arena in Pasay City in November 2014.
PHOTO BY RENE H. DILAN

STUTTGART, Germany: From the sha­dow of Chernobyl’s nuclear wasteland to international super-stardom and from penniless arrival in the United States, without a word of English, to a fortune of $200 million.

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