in a career spanning nearly twenty years and five Grand Slam singles titles decided on Maria Sharapova on Wednesday to immediately end their career, to continue. Ex-tennis player and it did for Kristie Boogert believes that the tennis world has a unique personality and will be missed.

“Sharapova it was a very different type of tennis than what we often see. She was mentally very strong, and it was because of this attitude, on the runway who is very, very impressive it was. I looked at her a bit like a terrier: Sharapova, raging, somewhere in the vast and would not be removed,” says the 46-year-old Says in the interview with the NU.nl.

“thanks to this institution, she said, she was in a race, often with a 3-0 for them. Sharapova was a hard-worker and incredibly disciplined. You can see her in her tennis, which is a combination of her Russian roots, and the fact that she had grown up in the united states, where nothing is too crazy. She was a tennisicoon.”

and now the 32-year-old Sharapova moved to already be on a seventeen-year-old age, and her name is at the top by a World to win, and also the titles at the US Open in 2006 and the Australian Open in 2008 and Roland Garros in 2012 and 2014), though. Only five players managed just like the Russian so-called Career Slam is complete.

“It’s pretty amazing that they can have all the Grand Slam tournaments to have won it, but I think it’s absolutely amazing that they hardcourtspeelster evaluated with two titles on the clay courts of Roland Garros is captured. That is, perhaps, the most important of her career. She became, after her early Wimbledon title has to be here to stay too,” said Says.

Maria Sharapova and wrote on a seventeen-year-old age of the World in her name. (Photo: )

‘, After dopingschorsing she is in the rhythm, ” come,

in The last few years of her career, which reached Sharapova, incidentally, is not much more. The former number one in the world, is in 2016, and a suspension of fifteen months imposed in respect of the use of the prohibited substance meldonium, which is the beginning of the end for her professional life.

Sharapova was in april, 2017, in its comeback, and won it in October of the same year, in the event of Accommodation, but is reached after the final of a WTA tournament. In a period full of injuries followed, leaving Sharapova in the neighbourhood, came to her first class.

“When you’re in her career, wants to portray, do you see a career with a lot of zijsprongen. First, by suspending the use of the meldonium, but also because of many injuries. After her return from that suspension as is, but they can never come back into her rhythm, come in,” says Says.

“One of her status should not be too long mired in recession, and depending on the need of a wildcard to participate in the tournament. It is a virtue to her, however, she immediately stops and does not yet have a afscheidstour like. They can look back on a wonderful career.”

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