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Russian Tennis Federation President Shamil Tarpishchev suggested that Maria Sharapova could come back on the tennis field on January 2017.

“Everything will be decided in September. It’s impossible for me to assure you, but I think she will be able to play in January 2017”, announced Tarpischev on Monday.

During her astonishing career, the beautiful Russian won five Grand Slam trophies and became world’s No1 at the age of 22.

The impeccable tennis player had to attend the 2016 Olympic Games, but the two-year doping ban appeal was postponed until September.

After the scandal, Sharapova acknowledged taking meldonium before every Australian Open match. According to her declarations, she didn’t know that the substance was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Meldonium is an anti-ischemic drug, meant to improve the athletes resistance, helps them to recover faster after physical effort and improves brain activity.

The beautiful blonde was just nine years old when her family traveled all the way to Florida.

Sharapova grew up in Sochi and started fooling around with the tennis racket in a local park.

After her first professional lessons, Russian coach Yuri Yutkin and former tennis player Martina Navratilova, recommended her father to take Maria at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

In 1993, Yuri Sharapov and little Maria traveled to the United States of America while her mother Yelena joined them two years later.

They were really tight on the money so Yuri was bound to wash dishes at a local dinning to afford Maria’s tennis lessons.