What Should Maria Sharapova Do?

Haha. We like it when our favorite athletes get surly like our favorite cantankerous aunt.

Sharapova, the most popular tennis star (yeah she’s more popular than Roger Federer), is criticizing the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for forcing her to do a four hour commercial shoot a day before a tennis tournament. She’s also asking her fans to vote on what she should do.
Here’s the statement published in her website:

I want all my fans to know that the WTA Tour is forcing me and several of the other top players to do a 4 hour commercial shoot for WTA Tour marketing materials. They want me to do this shoot on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday of the Rome tournament after flying 12 hours from LA.

I have set my own personal rules when is comes to doing shoots and I never do shoots before tournaments because they are mentally draining and I want to just focus on my tennis. Now the WTA is telling me if I don’t do this shoot they will fine me over $300,000. As you can see the WTA Tour loves to fine players.

To be honest, I would love to do this and help promote the tour as much as possible, but to force me to do this shoot the day before a tier 1 tournament is just not right. I am interested in what my fans think I should do?

So Sharapova fans out there, we know there are legions of you, what should Maria do? Help her decide by voting in her poll.

Sharapova along with Svetlana Kuznetsova and two other players yet to be named will be raising the banner for Russian tennis in the Beijing Olympics.

PHOTO SOURCE: Tennisplanet.com