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French Open champ Maria Sharapova can't get over her feat on clay!

Updated on: 09 June,2014 08:39 AM IST  | 
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Maria Sharapova's second French Open title on the claycourts of Roland Garros on Saturday left her scratching her head as to how she ever got to that point in her career

French Open champ Maria Sharapova can't get over her feat on clay!

Maria Sharapova. Pic/Getty Images

Paris: Maria Sharapova's second French Open title on the claycourts of Roland Garros on Saturday left her scratching her head as to how she ever got to that point in her career.

Maria Sharapova. Pic/Getty Images
Maria Sharapova. Pic/Getty Images 


Reared on the hardcourts of Russia and Florida, and happiest on the green grass of Wimbledon, the biggest name in women's sport is a late convert to the joys of the slippy red surface.


She once described her early outings on clay as being akin to a "cow on ice", but since her thrilling 6-4, 6-7 (5) 6-4 win over Romania's Simona Halep in the finest Paris final in many a year, she is now a claycourt legend.


Asked at her post-match press conference if she found it bizarre that it had turned out that way, Sharapova replied: "I'm with you on that one.

"If somebody had told me that I'd have more Roland Garros titles than any other Grand Slam, I'd probably go get drunk. Or tell them to get drunk, one or the other.

Amazing feeling
"It's really amazing. I feel that I worked to get to this position. There's nothing else. There is no substitute in winning these titles. You can't just go out there and just do it without putting in the effort, putting in the work.

"You're not just born being a natural clay court player. Okay, maybe if you're (Rafael) Nadal. But certainly not me.

"I didn't grow up on it, didn't play on it. I just took it upon myself to make myself better on it.

"There is no one else that was going to do that for me. I had to do the work."

Hard work and sacrifice is something that the Russian superstar has never shied away from since leaving her mother country and her mother at the age nine to further her career in the tennis heartlands of Florida.

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