Maria Sharapova is a famous tennis player, but over the years she has become well known for the ads she is featured in. It seems that the public did not notice Maria as much as they do now because of her ads. I know that I was not familiar with her and did not follow her career until I saw many of her commercials. Just recently she was assigned to do a promotional photo shoot for the WTA tour. But the problem with the photo shoot was that it would take up too many hours, which conflicted with Sharapova's busy schedule getting ready for the tour. If she did not do the photo shoot she would be fined 300,000 dollars. Luckily the shoot got changed to 90 minutes instead of many hours of shooting. What i later read is that Maria was very upset about the distraction right before the tour so she posted a blog for her fans to help her out to because she felt that people were not listening to her. I was appreciative to find this out about her in the fact that since she has become famous because of these ads it has made it hard for people to take her seriously on the court. From our lectures about female athletes in ads people only see them as they are in the media instead of in their sport. It is hard enough for women to be taken seriously and it seems that many women participate in ads so that they can be out there in the media and become more noticed. Its awesome that although Maria is still doing commercials to promote herself she first and foremost cares about tennis and wont let anything else get in her way.
Blair B. Kin 338 /9:30-10:45
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