Pics Maria Sharapova Doesnt Want You To See. KShares. Share. On Facebook. Everything about Maria Sharapovas first grand slam match since her April return from a 15month doping ban was exaggerated. The venue New York Citys Arthur. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN. Share. Email. Whether you watch tennis or not, you know that Maria Sharapova is hot, and the next few weeks will be some of the most intense days of her life. First theres a personal milestone, as she turns thirty on April 1. NewsImages/400637_Maria-Sharapova-2-Getty.jpg' alt='Watch Maria Sharapova: The Point Online Free 2016' title='Watch Maria Sharapova: The Point Online Free 2016' />Then shortly after, on April 2. Five time Grand Slam champion, Sharapova, is one of the most talented players in the history of tennis, and she cant wait to get back to work. In March 2. 01. 6, Sharapova was suspended for failing a drug test. She tested positive for meldonium, a cardiovascular drug that she had been taking for years, and which was recently added to the banned substances list. Opinions about the subject have been scathing. Some have called Sharapova a liar and a cheat, and that all 3. Even those who believed Marias claims of obliviousness have called the athlete an idiot for not paying closer attention to the latest drug updates. After a later ruling determined that her doping was unintentional, Marias suspension was reduced, and shell be back in time to play the French Open, which has pissed off her closest competition even more. The fact is that most of her peers arent very close to Maria at all. Fellow tennis champ Dominika Cibulkov has called her, a totally unlikeable person arrogant, conceited, and cold. Tennis legend Chris Evert said that Maria has, always isolated herself from the rest of the tennis world, from the players. So whats the big dealAre the haters just jealous of her unstoppable athleticism and breathtaking beauty How bad can she really be Well, check out this crazy list, and judge for yourself. The Wedge. So those tennis outfits are pretty sexy, right The skirts flip and flap around and get sweaty, yet they stay breathable and non constricting. But these miracle fabrics are not without fault, and oftentimes they have been known to ride up. You can ignore it to a certain point, but once it really gets up there, forget it. Watch Maria Sharapova: The Point Online Free 2016' title='Watch Maria Sharapova: The Point Online Free 2016' />Action must be taken. Nobody wants to see a picture of themselves pulling out a wedge. Here is a professional athlete, busting her ain an altered ballerina tutu, so of course this is going to happen. She probably doesnt even realize that shes doing it. Even at the beach. Bikinis, tennis clothes, its all the same. Maria has been playing tennis since she was four years old. Her dad was friends with tennis champ, Yevgeny Kafelnikovs dad. By age six she was playing tennis meets in Moscow, and by seven she had moved on to coaching in the USA. Watch A Million To Juan Streaming. This girl has lived and breathed tennis her entire life. And so must come wedgies. Banana Eating. Guys are very immature. I dont know why, but most of us never seem to grow up. When were in grade school we cant stop laughing about farts and when were in high school we cant stop laughing about sex. And we never give up either of those jokes throughout our lives. The dumbest topics are always there in our psyche just bubbling underneath the surface, waiting to be acknowledged. So whatever you do, dont show us an image of a beautiful young blonde eating a banana. We would have thought the same thing if it were a popsicle, or a sausage. Maybe even a carrot or a pickle, depending on the body posturing. Of course we laugh, but there is also a carnal urge that gets simulated here, and our minds instinctively photoshop. Dudes are so basic, right The Annoying Ex. Oh, lord, not that dude from The Voice. Everybody knows Adam Levine, and its a pretty even split of those who like him and those who hate him. He has that falsetto thing that is so popular lately, which the girls seem to enjoy, while guys like me just cant grasp the appeal. Levine is married now, but Maria is currently single. Back when Levine was single he wasted no time in courting Maria. Allegedly, he took the girl home on her eighteenth birthday. Maria is 2. 9 today, so this was a while back, during the rise of Levines band Maroon 5. Now his career has been reduced to reality TV, but the hits still manage to come. Who else has Maria dated Well, there are rumors that she went out with Tiger Woods, and Novak Djokovic. Her more serious suitors have included Lakers player Sasha Vujacic, Britneys ex Charlie Ebersol, Andy Roddick, and one female celebrity, to be named later1. The Giant. Have we mentioned how tall this woman is No girl wants to look like a goliath in a pic, especially when shes standing next to a boxing champion. Floyd Mayweather is actually a pretty normal sized dude, if not slightly below average in size, standing at 58. However, Maria looks like a freaking giant standing next to this guy. She is 62, nearly 63. So she naturally got her height from her parents, right Some skeptics argue that performance enhancing drugs, taken in her formative years, may have influenced her size, since her parents are only 57 and 51. Another more far fetched reason behind her height would be radiation. The Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1. Maria was born nearby, less than a year after the factory exploded, and fallout from the meltdown was the reason why the family left the area. The Ultimate Tennis Candid. There are hundreds, if not thousands, and millions of upskirt photos of tennis players online. It is truly amazing, and somewhat disturbing. Why do these images keep getting posted when there are millions there already There is an unquenchable desire for these pictures, for some reason, and Im guessing most of the dudes who are looking have never played or watched one entire tennis match in their lifetime. Maria, of course, is on the top of the upskirt trend. There are probably a million awkward still shots just of her. Therere the ones that look down her shirt, the ones with an exposed butt cheek, and every other anatomical piece you can think of. We looked at quite a few of these images and decided on this shot, because its definitely one that Maria does not want you to see. She looks absolutely awful, sweaty, uncomfortable, and caught in a moment of most extreme awkwardness. And it looks like she may miss the ball. Drunken Karaoke. This is a hilarious shot of the beautiful Russian tennis star having a good old time with male tennis champ and rumored fling, Novak Djokovic. How many beers do you have before you get onstage and do karaoke Personally, I have to be totally wasted before even considering picking up the mic. And what song do you chooseWell, heres my advice on that topic. Pick an artist that cannot sing. The obvious one is Dylan, who cant sing, but he has too many lyrics, and youll get lost trying to read the teleprompter. Try going with some Lou Reed, or the Violent Femmes. Those are both crowd pleasers with a reasonable tempo and no high notes. Im guessing that Maria and Novak did something a little more pop. Maybe some Ed Sheeran, or Taylor Swift. Lets just hope theyre not singing Dont Stop Believin. That one always gets murdered on karaoke night. Creeper Photo Bomb. This one is kind of funny because of the guy in the background. Maria doesnt want you to see a pic of some dude staring right at her behind. She has to know that dudes stare, but seeing the actual proof is another story. Maria had always demanded a ton of attention on the court, and if its not for her hot bod, its for her volume. This girl can grunt with the best of them. The shot here is an example of what she looks like mid grunt. The woman is intense. With that much intensity and eagerness to vocalize, most dudes can imagine what the girl is like in bed. Perhaps shes the type of girl you bring home late, and she ends up waking up your roommates. The Glare. Maria looks so hot in this picture, theres no doubt about that. Her legs are long and toned, and her rear end looks perfectly proportioned. But take a look at the poor girls face. I bet this image pisses Maria off. Here she is looking hot as hell, and she has this weird spotlight on her face. Is somebody taking a mirror and purposely trying to make her madGet the glare out of her eyes, manMaria Sharapovas return may be biggest test yet. Apr 2. 5, 2. 01. 7Shaun Assael. ESPN Senior Writer Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN. New York Times best selling author. New book in 2. 01. The Murder of Sonny Liston Las Vegas, Heroin Heavyweights. Maria Sharapova arrived at the NBAs executive headquarters in New York City last August to see what it takes to run the kind of big league business she might want to oversee one day. Shed asked the commissioner, Adam Silver, if she could watch him work, and she began her tour seated next to him at a morning staff meeting, listening to him tick down a list of items that included a cracking down on teams that taunt officials via Twitter and growing the NBAs international academies. Silver agreed to let her trail him because hes a tennis fan and, frankly, because he was intrigued by why a five time grand slam winner would want to spend a summer week inside a midtown skyscraper. Over three days, according to Silver, Sharapova was poised and inquisitive, unafraid to volunteer her life experiences to make a point. She talked about how she uses her social media accounts to control her image and how important it was, as a young Russian, to train at a Florida academy to help her measure her talent. As the week wore on, she watched the leagues public relations and marketing managers in action and seemed especially interested in the WNBA, furiously scribbling and peppering its execs with questions. When the week ended, Silver joked, Call me when you retire. I think we have a job for you here. The reason Sharapova had time for an internship with the NBA, of course, is that she was in the middle of serving a 1. Last June the International Tennis Federation barred her from the tour after determining that shed been taking meldonium, a Latvian heart drug not approved for sale in the U. S., which had recently been added to its banned substances list. But with the suspension set to end on April 2. WTA tour, has planned her return at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany. And the welcome isnt shaping up to be as warm as Silvers. Maria Sharapovas return makes for great headline fodder, but given the flaws exposed in the global anti doping process over the past few years, it feels like a distraction from deeper issues. The past 1. 5 months in the Maria Sharapova drug suspension saga have been a whirlwind, to say the least. Heres what we know, and what we hope to learn, as she gets ready to return to the court. RelatedI dont miss her on the tour at all, Slovakias Dominika Cibulkova, currently ranked No. April. Shes a totally unlikable person. Arrogant, conceited and cold. When I sit beside her in the locker room, she wont even say hello. I didnt speak with her before theres no reason to speak now, Romanias Simona Halep commented when Sharapova announced her suspension last March. While Sharapova has received support from players like Venus Williams and Elena Vesnina, shes known for being aloof among colleagues in the WTA something she conceded when she recently told The Times of London, When I get to the locker room, Im not sitting there sipping tea and eating macaroons. But the intensity of the recent backlash against her goes deeper than that. Theres no tennis equivalent of a hard foul or sliding with your spikes up, but Sharapova has come close. Often cited is an incident from 2. Frances Tatiana Golovin at the Miami Open. After squandering four match points in the second set, Sharapova took a conveniently timed bathroom break up 5 3. And later, when play resumed and Golovin rolled her ankle and started cramping in pain, Sharapova turned her back. The result was a jarring image of an 1. Whats driving her detractors now is how Sharapova will be returning to the tour in Stuttgart. For players who dont have the points or ranking to automatically qualify for an event, tournament organizers dole out a limited number of wild card passes to their main draws, usually for hometown favorites who need the ranking points that come with winning matches at premier events. Without that wild card, players have to fight through exhausting qualifying round matches. But Sharapova the richest female athlete in the world, worth an estimated 2. Forbes is invoking a WTA rule allowing grand slam winners to get wild cards, and in the process muscling aside other players, some of whom have battled for years to get a shot at qualifying for premier events like the one in Stuttgart. Its a power move that isnt sitting well with colleagues such as Caroline Wozniacki, the former No. Sharapova should make her way through the qualifiers. When a player is banned for drugs, I think that someone should start from the bottom and fight their way back, Wozniacki told reporters at Indian Wells in March. That Sharapova is not taking that path only adds to her reputation as the kind of player who will do anything to gain an advantage, and it helps explain why the current laffaire Sharapova has grown into something larger, and nastier, than it ever should have been. Maria Sharapova will return to tennis April 2. Porsche Grand Prix in Germany. Isaac BrekkenAP Photo. THE CONFERENCE IN late March is billed as Inspiring Women in Sports. And for more than an hour at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, Billie Jean King is just that inspiring. The 7. 3 year old talks about her decadeslong fight for equal pay, breaking glass ceilings, and the womens rights movement. When Sharapova takes the stage later in the afternoon, she tells the story about how, when she was 7 years old, she came to Florida from Russia with her father and 7. She skips the fact that his screaming became a common spectacle at her matches and instead becomes sentimental as she recalls, I was surrounded by palm trees every day. I was happy. You can hear the book shes due to publish this fall coming to life. Although Im at a stage and an age in my career where Im closer to the end than the beginning, you always want to end your career, or a chapter in your life, in your voice, on your terms, she says. Thats why I fought so hard for the truth to be out. The truth, according to Sharapova, has nothing to do with whether she took meldonium she admitted in a news conference that she did. It has to do with the motives and actions of the ITF, which she casts as the real villain in all of this. Sharapova declined ESPNs interview request for this story. Meldonium was designed to help Soviet soldiers deal with stress during the 1. Afghanistan, and it was later used by sports doctors in Russia to help athletes fight exhaustion by increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood that flows to the heart. Its sold so commonly there that a supply of 4. Max Holt, a U. S. Olympic volleyball player, told American authorities that he got a supply when he played for Dynamo Moscow, and several Russian stars, like swimmer Yulia Efimova, have admitted to taking it regularly. But when Russia was mired in a doping scandal that threatened its participation in the 2. Olympics, anti doping experts began to look at meldonium more closely. Late in 2. 01. 5, the World Anti Doping Agency, which had previously included the drug on its watch list, decided its effects were performance enhancing and banned it effective Jan. Sharapova is one of 1. PAtrick KovarikAFPGetty. Images. Most leagues reach out to their athletes to warn them whenever new drugs are added to the banned list. But the ITF sent its players an email with a link to WADAs updated list without specifying that meldonium was now on it. In legal filings, Sharapova said shed been using the drug for a decade for low magnesium and to ward off a family history of diabetes on the advice of a Russian physician. She says her agent, Max Eisenbud, was in charge of monitoring the WADA list, and he took responsibility for not noticing the addition of meldonium. He was, she said, distracted by a divorce.