Question: Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement from tennis, she belongs to which country?
(a) Australia
(b) Russia
(c) USA
(d) Serbia
Answer: (b)
Related facts:
- On 26 February, 2020, five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova announced her retirement from tennis.
- The Russian won her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2004 aged 17 and completed the career slam, all four major titles, by winning the French Open in 2012.
- In 2016, she served a 15-month ban after testing positive for meldonium.
- After returning from her ban in 2017, Sharapova struggled to recapture her best form and suffered from a number of injuries.
- She has dropped to 373 in the world, her lowest ranking since August 2002, and has lost in the first round of her past three Grand Slam tournaments.
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