No Hollywood ending for rags-to-riches story

From the shadow of Chernobyl's nuclear wasteland to international superstardom.

From penniless arrival in the United States, without a word of English, to a fortune nudging $200 million.

It sounds like the stuff of Hollywood dreams, but the story of Maria Sharapova, the world's richest sportswoman, is testament to the power of one individual to make it, whatever the odds.