Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova said that her compatriot Elena Dementieva envied her because of more favorable contracts. Extract from the autobiography Sharapova published "Championship. com ». "Lena Dementieva always went to tournaments with her mother. She literally drilled me with her eyes and always looked askance. Once I learned from my massage therapist, who worked with many Russian tennis players, that Dementieva's mother said that she can not sign any contract in Japan, because all the companies have chosen me, "wrote Sharapova. The Russian woman noted that the reason for her envy was her advertising, not the high level of tennis. "Some of it just made me angry," - summed up the former first racket of the world.

After the US Open, Sharapova climbed 43 lines in the ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), taking it in 103rd place. The tournament was the first for the Russian woman in the Grand Slam series after a 15-month suspension for the use of meldonia. Dementieva completed her career in 2010. For her career, she won 16 WTA tournaments and 3 ITF singles tournaments, earning over $ 14.5 million in prize money. In 2008 she became the Olympic champion at the Games in Beijing.

Original article: Sharapova told about the envy of compatriot Dementieva because of contracts.