Maria Sharapova retires from tennis!

[Tennispanther]

Article from Daily Mail, London

Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova announces her retirement from tennis in an emotional essay in Vanity Fair - three years after coming back from a drugs ban

Maria Sharapova has given up the uneven struggle against injury and announced she has finished with tennis at the age of 32 in an emotional open letter in Vanity Fair.

After a career that yielded five Grand Slam titles, hundreds of millions of earnings and a reputation that became severely tarnished, she revealed her retirement through the pages of the magazine.

She will be remembered for her major wins, her relentless baseline hitting delivered with a piercing shriek and failing a drugs test at the 2016 Australian Open.

The 32-year-old Russian said: 'How do you leave behind the only life you've ever known? How do you walk away from the courts you've trained on since you were a little girl, the game that you love — one which brought you untold tears and unspeakable joys—a sport where you found a family, along with fans who rallied behind you for more than 28 years?

[bobo]

I predicted this last year on the other site! Good riddance to a nasty stain on tennis. A true drug cheating scumbag. 5 Meldonium fueled Grand Slam titles. Without Meldonium after she came back from the drug suspension, she's the queen of the first round exit. Here's an article that pretty much sums up her career.

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/ ... ow-players