Teenage beauty Maria Sharapova today became the first Russian ever to win Wimbledon – and immediately tried to phone her mother in Florida with the news from the centre court.
The 17-year-old, the third youngest female to claim the title in the tournament’s history, borrowed a mobile phone only seconds after defeating Serena Williams.
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