Ex-coach Joyce: A lot of people found Maria Sharapova rude

Michael Joyce and Maria Sharapova

Russian tennis beauty Maria Sharapova's former coach Michael Joyce has revealed that his ward had a very different image of her in public just for the way she is.

"Girls didn't approach her that much, because you know they kind of assume that she's a bi''h or whatever. It's not like people are jumping to be friends with her too. So she kind of just went about her business. I mean a lot of people just assumed that she was the way she was just because it was her image.

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"It wasn't very intentional and I don't think it was something like she just woke up one day and was like okay I'm just going to kind of separate myself from all the other people. She's super competitive in tennis and pretty much at anything she does," he said.