Maria Sharapova’s father today escaped punishment for a throat-slitting gesture, but the “gutter behaviour” cemented his place in the club of infamous tennis parents. Yuri Sharapov has been a fixture courtside at the season-opening Grand Slam, often unshaven, wearing dark glasses and with the hood pulled up on his camouflage army-print sweatshirt. Even his glamorous daughter said he looked like “an assassin”.
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