On Thursday, December 17, Maria Sharapova announced on her Instagram account her engagement to Alexander Gilkes, whom she started dating in 2018.
Maria Sharapova will soon be a married woman. Thursday, December 17, the former tenniswoman took to her Instagram account to announce her engagement with Alexander Gilkes. It is since 2018 that the champion spins the perfect love with the founder of Paddle8, an auction site for works of art, who proposed to her. “I said yes from the first day we met. It was our little secret, wasn’t it”, declared Maria Sharapova, suggesting that this future union had always been obvious between them.
An announcement accompanied by many photos accomplices of the champion with Alexander Gilkes, who also rejoiced on Instagram that his beautiful told him “Yes”. “Thank you for making me a very, happy man and for saying yes. I look forward to living a life of loving and learning from you.”, he wrote in the caption of a tender snapshot of them two and a sublime photo of Maria Sharapova only.
A new chapter for the former champion after her farewell to tennis
Very discreet about his private life, Maria Sharapova is not the type to multiply the clichés of her companion on social networks, she who is however very active on Instagram. The ex-tenniswoman seems to prefer to promote her brand of candy Sugarpova, and reveal her sports routine to keep a dream body away from the courts. Indeed, after a scandal for having tested positive for meldonium in 2016, Maria Sharapova had finally returned to the world of tennis, before finally retiring from work in February 2020 at the age of 32.
“Tennis showed me the world and showed me what I was made of. That’s how I tested myself and how I measured my growth. And so, it doesn’t matter what I choose to do. to do for my next chapter, my next mountain, I will keep pushing. I will keep climbing. I will continue to grow. Tennis, I say goodbye to you “, she had thus declared. And her next chapter just might be a happy marriage to Alexander Gilkes.
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
Together since 2018, the couple will soon be married
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
The champion announced her engagement on Instagram
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
Very accomplices they spin the perfect love for a few years
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
Now far from the world of tennis, the champion will devote herself to her marriage and her entrepreneurial career.
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
Maria Sharapova said “yes” at the request of her companion
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
Alexander Gilkes is the founder of an art auction site
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Maria Sharapova and her companion Alexander Gilkes
He proposed to the champion in marriage after two years of relationship
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Maria Sharapova at the Givenchy Collection Spring / Summer 2020 Ready-to-Wear fashion show during Paris Fashion Week (PFW), September 29, 2019.
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Maria Sharapova at the Nordstrom store chain opening night in New York City on October 22, 2019
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Maria Sharapova and her partner Alexander Gilkes at the exit of the 71st edition of the MET Gala on the theme “Camp: Notes on Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 6, 2019.
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Maria Sharapova at the AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles on February 24, 2019.
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