Question

What important lesson did the nine year- old Maria learn?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The nine-year-old girl had already learnt an important lesson in life—that tennis excellence would only come at a price. That toughness runs through Maria even today. It was the key to her bagging the ladies' singles crown at Wimbledon in 2004 and to her meteoric rise to the world number one spot the following years

Answer 2

At the tender age of nine, Maria learned that in order to excel at tennis, she would have to make many sacrifices. “I used to be so lonely,” Maria Sharapova recalls. “I missed my mother terribly. My father was working as much as he could to keep my tennis-training going.