Pickleball is one of the sports that has taken immense place and created a buzz around the world, especially for tennis players. A lot of major players have started taking interest in this sport including Maria Sharapova and John McEnroe. She has several times posted about this on her social media channel as well about how she might be playing pickleball next year professionally as well.

In a series of stories on social media with John McEnroe, she confirmed what her future looks like when it comes to making a comeback to tennis and playing pickleball. While some of her fans may be happy with the news, there will surely be some fans who will be disheartened after listening to the same.

John McEnroe talks about Maria Sharapova’s future in tennis and pickleball

Since there has been a lot of speculation around Maria Sharapova and whether she will ever make a comeback to tennis, she finally opened up about it on social media with the help of her current pickleball mentor John McEnroe. She posted a question-and-answer fun session on her Instagram account where her fans could ask her various questions about her personal as well as professional life but not to her, to John McEnroe. One of the fans asked John, “Can you convince Maria to make a comeback to tennis?”

John answered, “Umm we are gonna stick to pickleball for the moment.” This statement clearly shows that for now, Maria’s future at the tennis courts is a long shot. She is planning to focus more on pickleball and see what she can do there.

What’s more, Maria might also be a part of the Pickleball Slam as she focuses more on this sport professionally like she did with tennis.

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Maria’s future with pickleball looks brighter than ever

Maria has joined forces with John McEnroe as her mentor to compete with Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi at Pickleball Slam 2 which is the second edition of the Pickleball Slam. It will take place next year in the month of February. The matches will be conducted in Florida at the Seminole Hardrock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood.

The five-time grand slam champion has finally decided to say goodbye to the sport she is phenomenal at and make her way to a new career path. Even though her fans would not see her on the court for tennis, they sure will be pretty excited to see her nail yet another sport with ease and excellence.

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