After Sharapova announced her retirement from tennis earlier this year, Gilkes posted a message of encouragement to her on Instagram. May you continue to inspire us all with your deep humility, self-deprecation, strength and focus," he wrote. Gilkes was previously married to fashion designer Misha Nonoo. This will be the first marriage for Sharapova. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she spends her free time hiking, reading and snuggling with her "Friends" box set.
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Tech Blog. The tennis star was slowed by shoulder problems for much of and , although she managed to win her third Grand Slam with a dominant showing at the Australian Open. She finally underwent shoulder surgery that October, and the resulting layoff forced her out of the Top until her return to singles action in May Sharapova struggled to regain her consistency against the premier women's players, but she was back in the Top 20 by the end of , and finished ranked No.
The victory made her just the 10th woman to complete a career Grand Slam wins at all four major tournaments and allowed her to regain the world's No. At the Summer Olympic Games — Sharapova's Olympic debut — she won a silver medal in women's singles, losing the gold to American tennis star Serena Williams. The Russian continued to play well in subsequent majors, finishing runner-up at the French Open. However, shoulder problems again took a toll, and not long after a disappointing second-round loss at Wimbledon, she withdrew from action for the remainder of the season.
In , she advanced to the Australian Open final and the semifinals of the U. Open, before finishing the year ranked No. In March , Sharapova announced that she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open in January.
At a press conference, the tennis star said that she had tested positive for Mildronate, with an active ingredient of meldonium, which she had been taking for health issues since On June 8, , an independent tribunal appointed by the International Tennis Federation ITF suspended Sharapova from playing for two years because of the failed drug test. Sharapova responded in a Facebook post: "While the tribunal concluded correctly that I did not intentionally violate the anti-doping rules, I cannot accept an unfairly harsh two-year suspension.
The tribunal, whose members were selected by the ITF, agreed that I did not do anything intentionally wrong, yet they seek to keep me from playing tennis for two years. In October , after Sharapova appealed her two-year suspension, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that her punishment would be reduced to 15 months, allowing her to return to international competition in April She won her first WTA title in two years at the Tianjin Open in October, and battled her way back into the sport's Top 30 in , her quarterfinal showing at the French Open among the year's highlights.
But the erstwhile champion struggled to remain competitive after advancing to the fourth round of the Australian Open, her performance hindered by nagging physical problems. On February 26, , one month after her first-round loss at the Australian Open, Sharapova announced her retirement in a Vanity Fair essay.
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