Maria Sharapova, photo 1 of 3
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Sharapova2016
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Tourism Victoria
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IBI14 Maria Sharapova (cropped)
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Valentina Alemanno
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Maria Sharapova (16201873377)
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Tatiana from Moscow, Russia
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莎拉波娃

Shālābōwá
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Maria Sharapova, Russian professional tennis player, 5-time Grand Slam singles champion and former world No. 1

About Maria Sharapova

born 1987 · 运动员 athlete

Russian tennis player who won Wimbledon at 17 in 2004 and all four Grand Slam titles over her career. She was banned for 15 months in 2016 after testing positive for meldonium, and retired in 2020.

Also called  玛丽亚·莎拉波娃

Examples

HSK 5
Shālābōwá shíqī suì jiù yíng le Wēnbù'ěrdēng guànjūn.
Sharapova won Wimbledon at the age of seventeen.
HSK 7-9
Shālābōwá èr líng yī liù nián yīnwei méi tōngguò yàojiǎn bèi jìnsài.
Sharapova was banned in 2016 after failing a drug test.

Tips

usage
Chinese fans shorten her name to 莎娃, first and last syllables. Her candy line Sugarpova is 糖波娃 in Chinese, with 糖 'sugar' replacing the first two syllables.
usage
娃 renders the '-va' of Russian women's surnames, while men's surnames in '-ov' end in 夫: Ivanova is 伊万诺娃, Ivanov 伊万诺夫.

Stroke Order

莎 shā
拉 lā
波 bō
娃 wá