By Shasha Bronner for the Huffington Post Maria Sharapova is currently ranked the third best female tennis player in the world and is the world’s wealthiest female athlete. She has multi-year contracts with Nike and Evian in addition to her designing gig for Cole Haan. Sharapova’s mother became pregnant with her shortly after the Chernobyl explosion and her family fled her hometown of Nyagan, Russia when she was a…