Maria Sharapova: 'If someone can break records it’s Serena Williams'

Former World No. 1 Maria Sharapova says that she has no plans to get into coaching or make a comeback to tennis, in an interview to The New York Times.

The Russian announced her retirement earlier this week but said she does envision becoming a coach or coming back like Kim Clijsters or Serena Williams, who she says can break records in women's tennis.. “No. I promise everyone. It’s tough to compare everyone’s positions when it’s time. I think everybody has very different things going on in their life, and I think for women there’s also the conversation of family, which is obviously a big part of Serena’s comeback after stepping away from the game for a little bit of time. But I think if there’s someone who can break records it’s her, and I have no doubt that she can.”

The 32 year old said she wants to have children and never saw herself being a mother and a tennis player, partly due to the separation from her parents when she moved to the United States when she was a child. “ (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. 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 also spoke about her doping ban and says she remains proud of how she went through the situation and came back from it. "It was a situation I had to go through, and I did it in the most honest and humbling way. And to be in my position and be so vulnerable and to say I made this mistake and to go through two trials, keep training the way I did and then come back and go on court and compete with the same amount of love for the sport is an incredible example. And I’m proud of that.”

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