MARIA SO... STILL HUNGRY: The Girl from Nyagan

Success arrived early and loud. Teenager on the tour, fierce on the baseline, she learned to read not just opponents but the market of expectation fans, sponsors, press. She was dressed in notoriety before she could afford it; the cameras were a weather system she had to survive. Victory at Wimbledon came like sunlight through storm clouds, an upset that tasted of inevitability after the fact, a match that altered the geometry of her life. People began to speak of talent as destiny; she pre...