Sharapova's former coach Michael Joyce on public image: "Girls didn't approach her that much because they kind of assume she's a b**ch"

Former coach of Maria Sharapova spoke about her in a recent interview touching upon how she was perceived by others.

During her career, Sharapova always looked like a cold player because that was the sort of image she created of herself. Her former coach Michael Joyce talked about it in a recent interview explaining that it wasn't that was intentional:

"I mean a lot of people just assumed that she was the way she was just because it was her image. It wasn't very intentional and I don't think it was something like she just woke up one day and was like okay I'm just gonna kind of separate myself from all the other people."

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He added:

You know coaching a lot of different people, everybody's different everybody's wired different and Maria was the type who is very competitive. She's super competitive in tennis and pretty much at anything she does. Girls didn't approach her that much too, because you know they kind of assume that she's a bit*h or whatever so. It's not like people are jumping to be friends with her too. So she kind of just went about her business."

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