The International Tennis Hall of Fame has announced that Maria Sharapova, Bob, and Mike Bryan will comprise the Class of 2025.

They will be inducted in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 23, 2025.

From Russia, Sharapova is one of ten female players to have a career Grand Slam, winning the Australian Open (2008), French Open (2012 & 2014), Wimbledon (2004) and U.S. Open (2006) and had 36 Career Singles Titles with an overall 645-171 record.  A former #1, Sharapova also won a Silver Medal at the 2012 Olympics.

Sharapova’s career was not without controversy. In 2016, she was suspended for 15 months for failing a test for a banned substance, but this did not impact her receiving this honor. 

The Bryan twins won 16 Grand Slams (Australian Open 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2013, French Open 2003 & 2013, Wimbledon 2006, 2011 & 2013, U.S. Open 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012 & 2014) and 119 Titles in total.  They also won Gold at the London Olympics and Bronze in the 2008 Beijing Games.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending International Tennis Hall of Fame members.

The good doctor has said it before and will say it again.  I totally understand the appeal of Russian mail order brides.  While tennis superstar, Maria Sharapova doesn’t need the Internet to find a Western husband, her looks make a lot of lonely North Americans (and no the good doctor isn’t one of them) hope that they can find a “Sharapovaesque” lady.  Russia is full of them!