Marija Šarapova sells her apartment in Los Angeles.

In his active career, Marija Šarapova was number one in the women’s ranking list. EPA / AOP

Former tennis star Marija chapova has put his house in Los Angeles for sale.

The sun says that the Russian bought the apartment 13 years ago for three million pounds. Now the price tag has been struck by a whopping 18.5 million, or over EUR 21 million. The apartment has, among other things, sea views and its own bowling alley.

Šarapova is engaged to a British businessman Alexander Gilkes with. The couple, who have kept one since 2018, has said they wanted to move to Europe.

The 38-year-old ex-tennis star was the number one women’s ranking at its best in his career. He popped into a tennis superstar in 2004 at the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament. At that time he defeated in the finals Serena Williams Only 17 years old.

The career included several Grand Slam winnings and in 2012 a silver medal was hung on the Russian neck at the London Olympics.

A successful career became a stain in 2016, when Šarapova was caught in Meldonium in Australia’s Open Doping Test. Initially, he was launched for a two -year non -compete ban, which was eventually shortened to 15 months.

When Russia started a brutal offensive war in Ukraine, Shopova appealed for peace and donated money to Ukrainian children.

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