Will there be a warm or icy welcome for Sharapova if and when she returns?

It started off as a regular day in tennis: No least than 3 tournaments were taking place: Indian Wells in California, and two ITF Challengers – one in Puebla, Mexico and the other in Curitiba, Brazil. Reporters and tennis analysts scrambled together at a downtown Los Angeles hotel when they heard that Maria Sharapova was to call an emergency press conference. Most thought it would be the announcement of her imminent retirement from a sport she”s played all of her life. But when she announced her failed drug test, many questioned why? Why did she take a banned drug, for what reason and could everyone hearing the medical reasons believe her? Despite it all with the WADA (World Anti-Doping Association) investigation and putting her on a “provisional ban”, the facts about the drug, who takes it, this information is coming into the front of the matter. But after the final word, if and when Maria Sharapova returns to tennis, how will she be received by everyone?

In the light of hearing why she took the drug, so many other factors were confusing people”s heads as the 10 years that she took the drug, other athletes who failed the drug test and what were their reasons for taking it. Maria has often said that she didn”t want this incident to end her career. When her …

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