Tennis: Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova announces retirement

MOSCOW - Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable sportswomen, on Wednesday announced her retirement at the age of 32."After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain - to compete on a different type of terrain."

When she did play she lost as many matches as she won and was dumped out in the first rounds at Wimbledon, the US Open and, most recently, the Australian Open in Melbourne. "I believed that if I kept grinding and grinding, I could push myself to an incredible place." But in 2007 Sharapova began her long on-off battle with shoulder trouble.

In 2012, the Siberian-born Sharapova captured the French Open to become the 10th woman to complete a career Grand Slam. She added Olympic silver to her resume that year.More fitness troubles followed before the bombshell announcement of her positive test for the banned heart drug meldonium.

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