Is this long swan-like woman the next Wimbledon winner? 

Anyone who has lived in a box or a monastery for the last few years might never have heard of Maria Sharapova, but here she is. She’s already won Wimbledon once - back in the windy summer of 2004, when everything was brilliant and Wayne Rooney was still a good football player. Tremendous days.

This year she’s looking good for another victory, and if you study the above picture very closely, you’ll notice that she has immensely long legs - that’s because she’s six feet and two inches tall, which is gargantuan for a woman.

When she’s not winning big tennis tournaments, she can be found loafing in California, which is about a million miles away from her native Russia.