Maria Sharapova has just launched his new book. “Unstoppable”, with lots of interesting things in it.
Was Grigor legal to date?
One of the most intriguing facts was Maria’s relationship with Grigor Dimitrov. According to the Russian beauty, she wasn’t even sure that he was old enough to be “officially dated.” Maria wrote in her book
“I googled Grigor’s name to find his age. Was he even legal? Twenty-one. Barely. Give him my e-mail.
“I remembered noticing a kid walking through Wimbledon village, tall, skinny, and carrying a type of good-looking grin that says he knows he is good-looking.
I remembered telling my coach, ‘Thank goodness he didn’t exist in my generation,’ that would have been dangerous. Dangerously distracting. A few back-and-forths with e-mail and Grigor asked for my number.
Our messages turned into phone calls, our phone calls into Skype calls. It was very simple and genuine. I didn’t think too much of it until, after one of our phone conversations, he dialed me back thirty seconds later and said, ‘I’m sorry, but I miss your voice. Can we speak for a few more minutes?’”
Splitting with Grigor was about bad timing
“Grigor recently told me — we were talking on the phone after he’d reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open — that one of the worst things in life is when you have the right thing at the wrong time.
It made me think of an evening we spent before the 2015 Wimbledon tournament. He had reached the semi-finals the previous year by beating Andy Murray; he lost to Novak Djokovic in four sets in that round. He pulled out a book that Wimbledon puts together of previous championships.
He quietly flipped through the pages of the book until he found a picture of me, in his box, watching his match. He looked at me, sad — I thought I saw tears in his eyes — ‘Did you see this? This means everything to me. Seeing you in my box next to my mother.”
And life goes on…
