Our interview with IMG Agent Max Eisenbud is up. On Sharapova - ‘She’s probably the worst athlete ever to win a Grand Slam. She can’t throw, she can’t pass, she has no touch. But she is probably the most mentally strong … I owe her my career’. Listen - podfollow.com/the-tennis-pod…
"She can't throw, she can't pass, she has no touch": Agent of Sharapova calls her the 'worst athlete to ever win a Grand Slam
WTAThursday, 27 July 2023 at 16:43
Max Eisenbud has stated that his former client Russia’s Maria
Sharapova was the ‘worst athlete to win a Grand Slam’.
Eisenbud worked with the former world number one as her agent
for most part of her career where she achieved some notable success.
Talking about the positives and negatives of Sharapova, Eisenbud
stated that most of the success of the 36-year-old was more down to her mental strength
as she managed to achieve it despite having very limited talent.
"Besides being an amazing player at age 11 when I first
saw her play, I think you all saw she was all business, she knew what she
wanted, she'd dedicate her time and energy to becoming the best she could
be," he said.
"I mean I tell people all the time she's probably the
worst athlete that, and I'll tell her if she was here (laughing), the worst
athlete to ever win a Grand Slam. She can't throw, she can't pass, she has no
touch but she willed her way.
"I think she was mentally one of the strongest players ever to play the game and I would put her on that list with all that great
champions, she just wasn't the athlete that these other players were. She knew
what she wanted in business, on and off the court, amazing young lady.”
Sharapova had a more than decent career at the highest level,
winning as many as five Grand Slams in the process.
Her first major triumph came in 2004 when she defeated the former world number one America’s legendary tennis player Serena Williams in
straight sets with a score of 6-1, 6-4 to lift her maiden Wimbledon triumph.
Sharapova’s last big victory came in the year 2014 when she
defeated the former world number one Romania’s Simona Halep with a score of 6–4,
6–7(5–7), 6–4 to lift the French Open.
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