Last April, Maria Sharapova revealed her pregnancy. This Friday, July 15, 2022, the tennis player who won 5 Grand Slam titles, including two Roland-Garros, became a mother. It was on Instagram that the Russian revealed the happy news with a first and magnificent threesome photo. We see the 35-year-old sportswoman posing alongside Alexander Gilkes, who has been making her heart beat for a few years, and their baby. We learn the sex of the baby, his date of birth but also his sweet first name.
In the caption, Maria Sharapova wrote: “Theodore VII•I•MMXXII“. It was therefore a little boy who joined them, and whom his parents decided to call Theodore. The little boy therefore seems to have been born on July 1, 2022 according to the Roman numerals used by the tennis player in legend. of this beautiful shot. Maria Sharapova and Alexander Gilkes have been on a little cloud since this July 1st, which will mark the beginning of their new life as a three. “The most beautiful, empowering and rewarding gift our little family could ask for“, continues the now mother of the family. In the tender photo shared, Maria Sharapova and her fiancé look with love at their first child.
Theodore, an already very popular baby
The former rival of Serena Williams, who decided to retire in 2020, had several love affairs with celebrities outside the courts, including singer Adam Levine and tennis players Andy Roddick and Grigor Dimitrov. But it was with Alexander Gilkes, an art dealer, that she decided to start a family. The two lovers got engaged at the end of 2020 and, since then, everything seems to be going perfectly with the 42-year-old Englishman.