Siberia-born Maria Sharapova, 32, broke the news of her retirement from tennis in an article for Vanity Fair
WTA Tour chairman Steve Simon added: “She will be greatly missed by her millions of fans around the world.”Sharapova, who grew up in Sochi, was spotted playing at a tennis camp in Moscow by former great Martina Navratilova and moved with father Yuri to Florida with little money and no English, claimed 36 titles.A torn rotator cuff in 2008 required surgery and she was out for six months, dropping her outside the top 100.
Sharapova claimed she had not realized that meldonium, which she said she had taken for health issues throughout her career, had been added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list. Later that year she won the Tianjin Open, the last title of a storied career that earned her $38.7 million in prize money — a figure dwarfed by off-court earnings that according to Forbes made her the highest-paid female athlete for 11 years in a row.
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