Maria Sharapova retirement speculation: Her 21 career-defining moments

A attending at the career of Maria Sharapova on and off the cloister advanced of her
'major announcement'

Maria Sharapova will accomplish a “major announcement” on Monday night afterwards calling a abruptness columnist conference, with suggestions that the Russian tennis brilliant could advertise a breach from the action to balance from abrasion or even retirement.

28-year-old Sharapova has not played aback adversity a fourth annular defeat by Serena Williams at the Australian Open in January, accepting struggled with a larboard acquaint abrasion that affected her to abjure from this month’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in California endure week.

Should the five-time Grand Slam champ alarm time on her career, it will appear as a above shock for the action accustomed that she has already able for this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio, and has remained one of the arch contenders in the women’s bold for over a decade.

Sharapova access assimilate the arena aback in 2004 if she defeated adept antagonist Serena Williams to win the Wimbledon women’s singles at the age of just 17, accepting fabricated her able admission three years beforehand and her Grand Slam bow at the 2003 Australian Open.

Further success would appear at the US Open and French Open in 2006 and 2008 respectively, but she would accept to delay until 2012 afore commutual a career Grand Slam afterwards triumphing in the French Open final to ensure she would be remembered as one of the few to accept won all four Grand Slam tournaments.

Sharapova added Olympic gold that year at London 2012 area she absent out in the final to Williams, and added a additional achievement at Roland Garros two years after that charcoal her a lot of contempo Grand Slam success.

However, Sharapova has aswell carved out a badly acknowledged career off the cloister that sees her angle as the accomplished paid changeable amateur aback 2005. Sharapova has abundant endorsements and advocacy deals as able-bodied as her own business ventures, which cover the candied aggregation “Sugarpova” that she started in 2013 alongside bonbon adept Jeff Rubin