The famous Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova took hiatus from matches for her shoulder injury and as a result, she had to call off her entire clay season in But now, she is set to buck up though she lost the Australian Open , during the Australian summer, she pulled off a set against qualifier Jennifer Brady. She was introduced to tennis at the age of 4 in after a famous tennis player gave her first tennis racquet and she used to practice tennis with her father at a local park. At the age of 6, she attended a tennis clinic in Moscow. She first hit the tennis scene in and won the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championship at the age of