Updated On: 24 November, 2018 11:01 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Tennis star Maria Sharapova feels teenagers today are influenced by online platforms as they are often surrounded by it

Maria Sharapova
Russian tennis beauty Maria Sharapova, who has 3.4 million followers on Instagram, feels that social media makes a huge impact on the lives of a lot of teenagers today. Sharapova, who won her maiden Grand Slam title - Wimbledon - in 2004 when she was 17, thinks handling success at a young age may be a bit complicated.
When asked about how it feels to enjoy success as a teenager, she told Tennis World USA: "I think it certainly adds another dimension of pressure. I think it's changed very much to when I was a teenager. Now you have social media, which is a very powerful thing. I think a lot of teenagers are very influenced by it because they are surrounded by it. They have no escape sort of from it. Once you get in, it's tough to really get out."