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The five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, announced retirement at the age of 32. While saying good by to Tennis she used social media to say to herself, how will you live without tennis when you were known for tennis only till now. You had been on the court ever since you were a little girl.
Tennis gave you happiness and tears. A game that became a family for you, gave fans and are leaving behind 28 years of your career. I’m saying goodbye,” Sharapova said in an article for a magazine. The Russian former world number one’s ranking is currently 373rd. “Tennis—I’m Saying Goodbye,” she wrote. In the interview Maria said at an early age of 17 years tennis star was there.
On Wednesday when she announced her retirement she wrote on twitter, “Tennis showed me the world – and it showed me what I was made of. Its how I tested myself and how I measured my growth. And so in whatever I might choose for my next chapter, my next mountain I’ll still be pushing. I’ll still be climbing. I’ll still be growing.”
In 2004 she performed to win Wimbledon at the age of 17 and continuing her performance she also won the Australian open at the age of 20.
In 2012 and 2014 she won the French Open title. She had been a face from her first victory only. There was a time when she had been in debates when she had said that she does not know Sachin Tendulkar. She was trolled on the internet and was criticized for her statement. But despite all this she is the one who is searched maximum on the internet. She had lost her career graph when she got hurt.
She ranked top on August 22, 2015, she has to her name Australia Open 2008, French Open 2012, Wimbledon 2004, American Open 2006.
