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Maria Sharapova has strongly stated that she will never return to pro tennis again. Sharapova, a former five-time Grand Slam champion and world No 1, has put the curtain on her pro tennis career after the 2020 Australian Open.
In the summer of 2022, Sharapova became a mother for the first time when she and her fiance Alexander Gilkes welcomed their first child, a boy named Theodore. In recent years, there have been many cases of a WTA player making a strong return to tennis after pregnancy.
Sharapova, who turned 36 in April, was asked if she could do something similar. “I don’t know how they do it, I don’t see that in my future,” Sharapova said in The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast.
Sharapova on motherhood
On July 15, 2022, Sharapova announced that she became a mother.
Shortly after giving birth, Sharapova admitted that motherhood was something she wanted to experience at some point in her life. “I became a mother about a year ago which I think is one of the best achievements I’ve ever had.
I have a whole new respect for motherhood and parenting and that it is the moment of how you want that you know that your body experiences completely different, your mind to another place. That challenging, rewarding because I also know that I like to work, I am very ambitious.
I’ve always had big goals where I know I’ve laid a foundation in the business world over the years in my career and I know I want to take it to another level and grow. But yet I wanted to come home and have this beautiful family and so yeah it’s just that it’s a bit of a juggle game,” said Sharapova. a player.