WHEN Maria Sharapova shook up the world of tennis a year ago by beating Serena Williams to win Wimbledon, she did not even have a decent mobile phone with which to relay the news.
The sight of the pretty, long-limbed teenager trying vainly to call her mother using her father's mobile on the Centre Court was one of the enduring images of an endearing triumph that transformed Sharapova's life permanently.
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