MELBOURNE, Australia — Maria Sharapova hasn’t won a tournament since 2017, and her ranking slipped to 136th by the end of last year.
The 32-year-old Russian has had a series of right shoulder injuries and also served a 15-month suspension for a positive doping test to meldonium. Since her return from the suspension, her best showing at a major has been the quarterfinals at the 2018 French Open."I mean, I think I’m not the only one — I can speak about my struggles and the things that I’ve gone through with my shoulder, but it’s not really in my character to," Sharapova said.
Konta had always made at least the second round in four previous appearances in the main draw here. Still, she was upbeat after the loss. Second-seeded Karolina Pliskova beat Kristina Mladenovic 6-1, 7-5 and sixth-seeded Belinda Bencic advanced 6-3, 7-5 over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
Drug free. 😭
God love her she’s trying to live her dream . Oh ya without cheating it takes a lot of guts to keep on playing when everyone is judging her keep on keeping on!!!
Retire ...
She’s a winner in my books 😍
She’s finished
So when do we start saying she won all her trophies because of the drugs?
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