Former World Number one Maria Sharapova once mentioned that she won’t step on the professional circuit after becoming a mother. She never saw herself being a mother and a tennis player at the same time.

Certainly, competing professionally as a mother is one of the challenging tasks in a tennis player’s career. Also, Sharapova aspires to spend maximum time with her child, hence the thought of being a mother and a tennis professional never crossed her mind.

“I have a good friendship with my mother, who was very young when I was born. I want to have that kind of relationship with my son too,” she once said.

Maria and her father left their home in Russia and flew to the United States to learn professional tennis. At that tender age of six, she was separated from her mother and lived on the other side of the ocean while swinging her racquets.

At present, she feels that she couldn’t spend a lot of time with her mother while growing up. And Maria doesn’t want her child to experience the same.

“I wouldn’t know how to do both.. dedicate hours and hours on your body and on your strength and on the court. Those are never the circumstances I wanted to have a child around. That (separation from my mom) definitely influences a lot of decisions that I’ll make in the future,” Maria Sharapova said.

Like every mother, even she has an intention to give her child the best of everything in this world.

“There’s the expression, ‘You make plans and God laughs’, and I really hope he doesn’t laugh. I’ve really had such good relationships with my mother and my dad but I want to give my children a sense of peace and a sense of just home,” the five-time Grand Slam champion said.

Last week the Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova bid goodbye to professional tennis, and for the moment she is also not considering any coaching endeavor of the sport. And she will pay sheer attention towards her other business ventures.