莎拉波娃

Shālābōwá
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Maria Sharapova (1987-), Russian professional tennis player, 5-time Grand Slam singles champion and former world No. 1

Examples

Shālābōwá shíqī suì jiù yíng le Wēnbù'ěrdēng guànjūn.
Sharapova won Wimbledon at the age of seventeen.
Tā èr-líng-yī-liù nián yīnwèi mǐqūqíng shìjiàn bèi jìnsài.
She was banned in 2016 over the meldonium incident.

Tips

culture
Became famous in China after upsetting Serena Williams to win the 2004 Wimbledon at 17. Her on-court shrieks earned her the nickname 尖叫女王 (Screaming Queen) in Chinese tennis coverage.
usage
The ending is the standard Chinese rendering of the Russian feminine suffix -ова (-ova), as in 娜塔莎, 普京 in nickname form. Male Russian names drop it: 莎拉 would be the masculine form.

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