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Maria Sharapova has indicated strongly that she is very unlikely to return to pro tennis ever again. Sharapova, a former five-time Grand Slam champion and world No 1, 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 baby boy Theodore. In recent years, there have been several cases of a WTA player making a strong post-pregnancy comeback to tennis.
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 on The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast.
Sharapova on motherhood
On July 15th, 2022, Sharapova announced that she had become 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 was one of the greatest accomplishments that I’ve ever experienced.
I have an entirely new respect for motherhood and parenthood and…
