Maria Sharapova on friendship with Serena Williams, dinner with Iga & Naomi | 2024 Wimbledon 

Helps that she’s no longer facing the pressures of the tour

She is a mother now❤

What happens when you can be yourself and not controlled by anyone.

I think that's normal when athletes retire/move-on with their new path, I did a few commercials with many tennis stars and Maria & Serena were super snobby on set. But when I did a few commercials with The GOAT RF, he was very kind and lovely to speak too!

exactly😍..not a fan of her before😄..but after reading her book and now that she's retire, I become a fan.

You’re so hot😍

simp 😄

@@androc75 #whitedudesforkamala

@BobbyBluejacket Politics, nice attempt to seek attention though

@@zed2225 stating facts is not attention seeking fanboy, she won nothing after getting caught and there was no politics stupid excuse, so get a life.

@@zed2225 getting caught red handed is not politics and stating facts that she doped is not attention seeking. Grow up.

@BobbyBluejacket She was unaware of the ban of the meldonium substance when she took it. Plus she paid her due by serving years of suspension as a result. There are other players like Gasquet, Agassi, Justine Henin, etc also who were involved in substance use. Get over it.

@@itiswhatitis8875 Justine Henin was never caught for doping, stop spreading false information, just bitter that Maria got caught so you get over it and stop being bitter. stop sugarcoating things, she deliberately hid the use she admitted it herself

Didn’t Chris and Martina become friends after their playing days? Not unusual. Some of the fiercest rivals actually have a lot in common.

@@seensay2132 Chris an Martina were tennis rivals. Serena and Maria hated each other personally.

​@@Raider577where did they say that? I think it was all media and fans

@@QinisaWiltonFuyana I read that and Maria said that in an interview . She said it went back to beating Serena when she was teenager at Wimbledon final. She went back to Serena after the game and Serena was crying and said get that effing bitch out of here or words to that effect.

@@Raider577 They didn't hate each other. 2 Alpha tennis players who were 1 and 2 that would run through ANYONE to win. Once they've retired, there are a whole lot of conversations that they never had to have because they both understood. They both knew that there are only a handful of people in sports history that would understand why they navigated the way that they did. I guarantee that when they both first saw each other after retirement, their very first responses were smiles and laughs. It was never personal between them. Maria wanted what Serena had, and Serena wanted to keep what she had. Even Connors and McEnroe were super cool after retirement. Same thing.

Yeah. Very competitive era, beyond Serena of course. Many good players in that era: Sharapova, Henin, Clijsters, Safina, Myskina, Dementieva, Petrova, Zvonareva, Kuznetsova, Hantuchova, Wozniacki, Azarenka, Kvitova, Kerber, Radwanska, Halep, Muguruza, LiNa, etc.. Not like now, weak era with a boring domination of one player.

@@pierngadikurniawan And Ivanovic )

@@sasho888prm yes, Jankovic and Ivanovic.

What's with her hair???

This Era of tennis is so varied and so exciting! Some people can't get away from the past!!!

She is great for big pharma

What was she going on about Coco?? There are far better players!!!

@@bp900 when the drug is legal and fine why crying 😂🤣

@@krishnakumar2390 It was legal until it wasn't 🤣

@@bp900 that ain't funny it was illegal just 25 days left behind. Stop with ur emojis when u don't have nothing to backup ur claim.

You forgot jelena dokic and kournikova.. Well those were two of my favorites!!

Capriati Davenport Dementieva

Steffi Graf

very classy❤ and the most beautiful❤

Except they aren’t trolls. She had a bad attitude and she was a drug cheat

"50 told me go ahead switch your style UP....if they hate then let em hate, and watch the money pile UP !!!! "

Cite thé official, legally binding authority that labels her a drug cheat. And that Bouchard clip doesn’t count. 🤣

If you like her, just like her, who cares about anybody else

Serena does not miss standing beside Maria..

Same with me

They aren’t. That was Maria and them exaggerating a Met Gala appearances, when they don’t even follow each other on social.

@@andrewjones7150 some of the poor walking curses blk souls are really feeling that they dont want to be friends but sadly, they are now and even through with their phones, they don't even know a blk like u exist🤣😂

@@andrewjones7150Serena herself said that there was no beef between them, just intense compétition. Media was blowing stuff out of Proportion

@@LéonardK-z8e No media was blowing stuff out of propotions, as Maria literally called out Serena and talked about her personal, private relationship with Patrick. She had the beef with Serena after Serena had to humble and embarrass her so often. 😂

"close" might be an overstatement.

@@backhand4 good thing she’s gone that screaming was unacceptable

Interviewers!!! One of them is Martina Navratilova ffs. Her career and legacy eclipses Sharapova's by some distance.

in a recent interview Serena also said that there was no beef, they were just competitive that's it and the media decided to pit them against each other but a no point was it ever personal for either

Only a woman can say that😂 she was hotter in her 20s no doubt

@@MM-dm4xj Seems like your prefer quantity than quality. I prefer the mature "fatter" Maria ❤

@@nikolaspassisis1668 its the other way around. Its you who prefers quantity than quality since you like her when she has more mass. Biologically her fertility was at the peak in her 20s so thats the quality i prefer over your quantity.

NOT!

@@frazier9315 why are you even watching and reading comments if you don't like her? Get a life.

@@edgardegas01 cuz I pay my own phone bill,that's why....

Totally disagree. Sharapova wouldn't have won even 10 major in any era let alone 20. Not in Chris/Martina era in mid 70's & in 80's nor during Steffi/Monica era in mid 80's & in 90's. Yeah Venus could have won may be 10 slams if she wouldn't have diagnosed with sjorgen syndrome. Maria didn't face Serena in every slam😂😂 so stop acting as Serena stop her path every time . By your logic ASV could have won 10 slams without Graf & Seles. Murray could have 20 slams without big 3 lmao.

She would have won 100 slams if she was playing 5 year olds. Wtf r u talking about you ......

@@onioni111111 🤣🤣

​@@rajusaha855she reach 10 major finals lost 3 yo serena

@@denongamco1992 yeah not that much. She easily beaten by Kvitova & Azarenka on their maiden slam final. So I can't see her winning 10 slams even without Serena. As their are lots of other women who could have beaten her in slam finals.

I know right?

so what? tennis channel always bum sucks to maria. Martina Navratilova will be forever remembered as a legend and a clean athlete and she is correct maria is not the best player of all time. Martina says it as it is.

Where’s the lie though? Saying this as a Maria fan but she most certainly doesn’t belong to the greatest of all time.

She wasn’t the best but undeniably she was a tennis icon. She wasn’t the highest paid female athlete for no reasons for over a decade. Yes she was involved in doping but her influence in this tennis world is huge still.

And drug cheat.

@@blackblake3658 definitely not, includes Williams sisters also with USA exemption 😂🤣

Tennis queen? Lmao

@@sakuraxworld4566 jealousy hater

This is her normal hair. They made her continue to dye her hair blonde during her career for marketing purposes. Maria only cared about tennis and the WTA/Sports Entertainment world wanted her to be a blonde bombshell and promote her for her looks to get more people into tennis. Which is what caused the whole Serena vs Maria rivalry to begin with.

@@AFCompany i doubt she had a contract with wta to keep her hair blonde tbh

@@alastairty8755 she didn’t have a contract but her marketing team wanted her to be blonde for endorsement purposes

Iga already has the same number of slams as maria and will likely surpass her number since she is not a social media obsessed person, the only reason maria wasn't affected was because there was no social media when she was playing in her teens and early twenties making it easier to focus on tennis, times were different then. Naomi had mental health issues because she couldn't handle the pressure at that time and unfortunately lost early again in Wimbledon.

@@gayamoorthy1215 Good points. I do think they both see Sharapova as a positive focused woman that they look up to.

The most valuable lesson a current player can learn from Maria would be about legal pharmacological enhancement of their performance. Maria was using it for most of her career, it worked well (she was famous of her stamina), but at some point it got banned and then Maria ran into trouble. Did it pay, at the end of the day? She was treated leniently, she was allowed to come back on court after a couple of months, but she never won anything of value afterwards.

@@kerbiczwhen something is legal for everyone to take you don’t have an advantage. She won two slams before even using it and only played 5 matches after it had been banned. Also a lot of tennis players were using it if you didn’t know which is part of the reason it became banned in the first place. Maria just didn’t get the memo. She also wasn’t the only tennis player to test positive for it after it was banned but I guarantee you can’t name the other two because you simply have a dislike of Maria. Her body had already been breaking down the previous 3 years prior to her getting banned and it just continued once she returned, had nothing to do with the drug. She still beat the 2&3 players in the world after her returning and won a title beating Sabalenka in the final. Her injuries were why she planned on retiring in 2016. She only came back because she didn’t want to end her career that way but her body was already past its prime.

Never.

No, she is not!

No. Not even in her era. Ana Ivanovic and others were better looking.

​​@@blackblake3658 which ones? Name a few

@@stonew1927 He has his opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Spectators wouldn't survive it, everyone's eardrums would be busted....

@@kerbicz no it was actually at their seperate interviews and only Martina and that guy used to mention it to Maria stating that they had a wish to go for a dinner with her, that's all.

If you for one second think Iga or Naomi are needed for clickbait for Sharapova who is one of the most famous female athletes of all time then you have lost your mind. Look at the last 50 videos posted on this channel and tell me if any of them are even close to the number of views this Sharapova video has.

@@AFCompany true that.

@@AFCompany So why did they put Iga & Naomi in the title of the video, if Maria did not mention them? _One of the most famous female athletes of all time_ sounds very pompous to me. The sports fame is noisy but short-lived. Maureen Connolly was by far greater than Roaring Masha - how many folks do remember her now?

@@kerbicz it was mentioned to Maria by the interviewer and then she gave her thoughts on it. It is not like it wasn’t brought up at all. It is also not being pompous it is just truthful. Sharapova was everywhere and had a Canon and Nike commercial every year. She was a household name even if you didn’t watch tennis. No one outside of the tennis world would know who Iga Swiatek is.

Not much.

Yes, or may be she has that unattainable composure ?!) 🤷🏻‍♀️