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Sharapova's delicate balancing act

By Patrick Hruby
ESPN.com

Monday, August 29, 2005

NEW YORK -- Maria Sharapova needs more money and fame the way Sean Combs needs another self-appointed nickname. Which is to say, not so much. As the highest-paid -- and arguably most popular -- female athlete in the world, Sharapova could walk away from tennis tomorrow, swap her racket for lip gloss and comfortably sashay into the used-to-be-somebody netherworld of exhibition matches and FHM cover shoots. Of course, Sharapova has forever insisted she has no interest in emulating Anna Kournikov ...

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