Former world number 1 tennis player Maria Sharapova was blessed with a baby boy. Sharapova announced the birth of her first child Theodore on Friday on social media and shared a photo of the newborn with her fiancé.
“The most beautiful, empowering and rewarding gift our little family could ask for,” Sharapova, who is engaged to British businessman Alexander Gilkes, said in an Instagram post.
The five-time Grand Slam champion retired from tennis in 2020. Although she competed under the Russian flag during her career – and is the only Russian woman to win a career Grand Slam – Sharapova has lived in the United States since arriving in the country as a young tennis prodigy.
