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Maria Sharapova retires from tennis after 19-year pro career
ESPN ^ | February 26, 2020 | ESPN News Service

Posted on 02/29/2020 7:22:35 AM PST by L.A.Justice

Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement.

"Tennis -- I'm saying goodbye," she wrote in an essay that appeared Wednesday in Vogue and Vanity Fair.

Sharapova turned pro in 2001 at age 14. She won Wimbledon in 2004, the US Open in 2006, the Australian Open in 2008 and the French Open in 2012 and 2014. She is one of only six women in the professional era to win each major tennis title at least once. She made 10 Grand Slam finals in all, going 5-5.

For a while, Sharapova was as big a star as her sport had, earning many more millions of dollars in sponsorship deals than she did on the court.

The 32-year-old Russian reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2012, but she has dropped to No. 373. She lost in the first round of this year's Australian Open to Croatia's Donna Vekic in straight sets. She played only two matches this season and lost both.

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To: wardaddy

Reminds me of the FR Anna Kournikova fetish from long ago.


21 posted on 02/29/2020 8:16:16 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: semaj

Get in line...


22 posted on 02/29/2020 8:16:32 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: L.A.Justice
it's great to see the rules being adhered to !
23 posted on 02/29/2020 8:18:20 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Rebelbase

I prefer White girl arses


24 posted on 02/29/2020 8:18:57 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: L.A.Justice

She paid a dear price for exposing Serena as an adulteress. None of the major sports news organizations would report that Serena broke up a marriage with a man who had three young children. Sharapova brought it up during one of her press conferences, complaining about the always glowing coverage of Serena. She ceased to be the darling of the tennis press after that event.


25 posted on 02/29/2020 8:20:05 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: L.A.Justice

Wasn’t she a shark on Shark Tank last night?


26 posted on 02/29/2020 8:25:53 AM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: L.A.Justice

She could probably do one nude photoshoot, and make as much as she did her whole tennis career.


27 posted on 02/29/2020 8:30:32 AM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: DesertRhino

>>That is their female tennis players. Why do ours look so horrifying or like trannies.<<

You answered your own question.


28 posted on 02/29/2020 8:35:29 AM PST by twister881
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To: L.A.Justice
"Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind!"

29 posted on 02/29/2020 8:41:24 AM PST by twister881
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To: pepsi_junkie

She never won a single WTA singles title and just two ITF singles titles. No Majors and she only made a Major semifinal once. She was far from the best. By comparison, Sharapova won 5 majors and a career Grand Slam.


30 posted on 02/29/2020 8:43:37 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: gloryblaze

Yeah, tennis is not one of my things to watch to be quite honest. That idiot McEnroe kinda took care of that for me.


31 posted on 02/29/2020 8:52:10 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: numberonepal

Agreed! :-)


32 posted on 02/29/2020 8:53:44 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: L.A.Justice

She’s definitely cute. Maybe she’ll go into modeling. There was a time when women tennis players tended to be cute. Now they’re a bunch of dykes. I never watch women’s tennis anymore.

Although cute, Sharapova has a reputation for being kind of nasty, as those that know her around Manhattan Beach,CA, where she (used to) live, will attest.


33 posted on 02/29/2020 8:56:06 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: nickcarraway
I beg to differ.

Take that, Martina Navratilova.

34 posted on 02/29/2020 8:56:08 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: L.A.Justice

Forever thankful that the Vikings invaded Russia.


35 posted on 02/29/2020 9:31:57 AM PST by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
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To: Red in Blue PA
You know you can size the pics down.

Just make it:

<img src="your.pic.URL" width=xxx height=xxx>

You can do height or width -- doing both usually screws up the dimensions. I find a height of about 500 or a width of about 400 fits nicely.

36 posted on 02/29/2020 10:05:22 AM PST by freedumb2003 ("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: bruin66

“Forever thankful that the Vikings invaded Russia.”

Don’t you think that DNA went both directions?


37 posted on 02/29/2020 10:08:45 AM PST by truth_seeker ( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^^^)
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To: Rebelbase
Reminds me of the FR Anna Kournikova fetish from long ago.

Good times!!!

38 posted on 02/29/2020 10:12:03 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: L.A.Justice

Good luck to Maria and thanks for all the exciting matches.


39 posted on 02/29/2020 10:59:23 AM PST by EdnaMode (Hollywood)
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To: nickcarraway
"No Majors and she only made a Major semifinal once. She was far from the best. By comparison, Sharapova won 5 majors and a career Grand Slam."

Majors? Grand Slams? Who cares...
The most impotatant criterion is: "Which one would you rather have woken up with, thoroughly exhausted, every morning during their prime years?"

40 posted on 02/29/2020 1:23:10 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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