Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic treated tennis fans with an entertaining Instagram Live this Tuesday. The Grand Slam champions chatted over an hour, revealing details about their first meeting and subsequent date, Sharapova’s smooth transition from tennis to a new phase in her life, and the origin of the Russian’s fierce on-court attitude.
The live chat opened with a funny story about how they first got to know each other. Sharapova was absolutely open, saying how their first meeting happened a long time ago, way before Djokovic had any Grand Slam titles or even ATP titles, during a mixed doubles exhibition match in La Quinta, California.