What is the Net Worth of Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova, the Russian tennis champion, is the first Russian woman to win the Wimbledon tennis championship and topping the world ranking.
Sharapova Maria became the 10th woman to win the event of Grand Slam quartet, after her first victory in the French Open in 2012, and win the prize again in France in 2014.
Maria Sharapova is considered a top-earning female athlete with a net worth of $285 million dollars according to forbes.
Maria Sharapova Net Worth
Sharapova’s hard professional tennis training, success, and winning professional titles in tennis enabled her to garner trade approvals that vastly outweighed her tennis career earnings.
From March 2006 until 2016, Sharapova topped the list of Forbes’ highest-paid female athlete in the world, with annual earnings of more than $18 million, much of it from endorsements.
She has appeared in commercials for Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Canon, TAG Heuer watch brand, and jeweler Tiffany.
Sharapova has also been portrayed many times in several tennis-related video games, including Top Spin, Virtua Tennis, and Grand Slam Tennis.
In January 2010, she signed an 8-year deal with Nike for $70 million, the most profitable deal, and commercial endorsements ever for an athlete.
Sharapova launched her tennis clothing line, the Nike Maria Sharapova collection, in 2010. The collection includes dresses she designed for all major tournaments, in collaboration with Nike and Cole Haan. Additionally, she designs shoes and handbags for Cole Han.
In 2013, Sharapova signed a three-year contract to be the brand ambassador for Porsche.
Another of Sharapova’s business ventures is her launch of the Sugarpova candy line, in which part of the sales profits goes to the Maria Sharapova Association to support charitable work.
Early life:
Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Russian SFSR, and moved to the United States with her father to begin her training at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy at the age of nine.
On her fourteenth birthday, she began her professional career and nevertheless continued to compete with her peers, to come second in both the Wimbledon Junior Championships and the French Open since 2002.
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Career:
In 2003 Sharapova achieved her first win from the WTA women’s tennis tournament in the AIG open tournament in Japan, and she also managed to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon and on her first attempt. The following year she won the Wimbledon Championship, becoming the first Russian woman to win the tournament, and then won the WTA Championship again, adding another victory to her list of achievements.
She became the first Russian woman to rise to the top of the sports rankings in 2005 and achieved her second victory in the Grand Slam tournament by winning the US Open.
Sharapova suffered shoulder problems, which limited her athletic appearance during most of 2007 and 2008, but this did not prevent her from achieving her third victory in the Grand Slam with a landslide victory during the 2008 Australian Open.
In October, Sharapova underwent shoulder surgery, falling out of the Top 100, until she returned to singles matches in 2009.
Her ranking rose to the top 20 by the end of 2009, during her game with the first row players (i.e. Nadal, Del Potro and Murray). And she was then ranked as being higher paid than any other female athlete in tennis, while also being ranked as 4th best tennis player in the world by 2011.
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In her Tennis Career, she defeated her Italian counterpart, Sara Errani, in June 2012, in the final of the French Open, which made her the tenth woman who was able to complete the career of Grand Slam, and as a result, she returned to first place in the world.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won the silver medal in the women’s singles, the Russian Belle did well in her next major tournaments, where she finished second in the French Open from 2013.
Unfortunately for Sharapova, her shoulder injury hindered her again, as she played a disappointing match in the second round of Wimbledon, and soon after she was forced to withdraw from the stadiums for the remainder of the sporting season.
In 2014, Maria Sharapova made great progress by winning the second in the French Open and the fifth overall in the Grand Slam championships, after defeating Simona Halep.
In 2015, She made it to the final of the Australian Open and to the semi-finals of the US Open and before the end of the year, it became the fourth in the world.
Sharapova admitted in March 2016 that she had failed a doping test that was conducted on her in January during the Australian Open.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is set to announce their decision about Maria Sharapova’s case on June 8, 2016. The ban from practicing can last for two years if the tests reveal a positive result.
In October 2016, and after submitting an appeal against the previous decision, the Sports Arbitration Court announced that it reduced the penalty period to fifteen months, meaning that it will be able to return to the international competition on the 25th of April 2017.
At the start of 2018, our female professional tennis player with her multiple tournament winnings has finally starting to return to the top 25 in the world ranking. However, by the end of the year, it was clear that her career was coming to an end, ending at No. 29. In 2019, injuries continued to hold her back.
In 2020, Maria Sharapova has succedded in collecting a net worth of $180 million dollars, and then, she decided her retirement from tennis shortly after playing her 800th match.
Personal life:
In 2009, the tennis superstar Sharapova started dating Slovenian basketball player Sasha Vujacic. That same year, they announced their engagement in October 2010
However, during a conference after the 2012 US Open, Sharapova stated that the engagement had been canceled and that her relationship with Vujacic had ended.
Afterward, she dated Bulgarian tennis pro Grigor Dimitrov from 2013 to 2015. She has been linked to Paddle8 co-founder Alexander Gilkes since 2018 and the pair got engaged in December 2020.
