Maria Sharapova

Insights

Five major finals, five titles, and five runner-up finishes

Sharapova’s Grand Slam peak is perfectly balanced: 5 championships and 5 finals lost, across 58 tournaments and 251 matches. That combination, plus 10 semifinal appearances, shows repeated deep runs rather than isolated breakthroughs.

Her best Slam stretch came in 2011-2015

From 2011 through 2015 she reached at least one final every year: Wimbledon in 2011, Australian Open and French Open in 2012, French Open in 2013, French Open in 2014, and Australian Open in 2015. That five-year span contains four titles or finals and only one semifinal outside a final.

The 2014 French Open was her last title, and it came amid a strong all-Slam season

In 2014 she reached the Australian Open and Wimbledon quarterfinal-equivalent round of 16, then won the French Open at age 27, before another round-of-16 finish at the US Open. It is her final Grand Slam title in the data.

Her career ended with a sharp late decline

After reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals in 2016 and the US Open round of 16 in 2017, her results fell to a French Open qualifying exit in 2018, then round-of-128 losses at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2019 and again at the Australian Open in 2020. The last three listed tournaments all ended in the first round.

She was already a Slam contender as a teenager

At age 17 she reached the 2004 Wimbledon title and two other round-of-32 finishes that season, and by age 18 she had already made three semifinals in 2005. Her first final came at the 2007 Australian Open at age 19.