Sharapova wins her 600th match and asks am ‘I getting old?’

Maria Sharapova reached a career milestone on Friday, which came as a nice surprise after a tough match.

Sharapova said, when an on-court interviewer congratulated her for the achievement earned by winning her third-round match Friday at the Australian Open.The No.

Sharapova is 28, which in tennis years means she’s starting to wonder how much time is left in her career, and how much longer her body will allow her to compete in a sport filled with power-hitting youngsters.

After racing through the first set in just 26 minutes, Sharapova was broken twice in the second set, which lasted 77 minutes.

But after Friday’s milestone, Sharapova took a moment to pause and reflect on her 600 career wins.

Three years earlier, when she was 6, Sharapova was spotted at a Moscow exhibition by Martina Navratilova, who told her father that America was the best place to cultivate the young player’s talent.

Asked Friday how she navigated the world of professional tennis as a young player, Sharapova credited her parents.