MARIA SHARAPOVA has launched a new business venture – selling furniture.
It is not the former Wimbledon champion’s first foray into the field, either.
In 2021, a year after retiring from tennis, Sharapova released the Maria Collection, a line of furniture for Rove Concepts.
This time around she has produced designs suitable for the modern home office.
Sharapova moved into business after hanging up her racket and she has felt inspired to mix things up in order to get rid of boring boardroom furniture.
She told Architectural Digest: “I thought that this could be the modern boardroom.
“I’ve been in several boardrooms since I retired five years ago, and I wouldn’t say they’re the prettiest things.”
She added: “In all the things that I did outside of the sport, people were initially like, ‘Does she have permission to do that?’”
Sharapova’s business ventures have allowed her to build a net worth of £130million.
She recently placed her mansion, which boasts an indoor bowling alley, up for sale for £18.5million.
The Russian called time on her career at the age of 32 in 2020 after winning five Grand Slams.
Sharapova retired a shadow of the player she was since returned from her drugs ban for meldonium in April 2017.
The doping suspension understandably damaged her reputation and brand, and she dropped to 373rd in the world.
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