Sharapova confirms engagement to beau Vujacic is `over`

Wellington - Maria Sharapova, who’s tennis has been going quite well at the moment, dropped a bit of off-court news at the US Open on Friday by announcing that she is no longer engaged to professional basketball player Sasha Vujacic.

At her postmatch news conference following a 6-1, 6-1 victory over NCAA runner-up Mallory Burdette to reach the fourth round, four-time Grand Slam champion, the 25-year-old professional tennis player said her relationship with Vujacic has been over “since the end of spring, actually.”

“I was waiting for someone to actually ask me that question, but nobody did, directly,” Stuff.co.nz quoted her as saying.

“It was obviously a challenging decision, you know, from both of our ends,” she said.

Word of their engagement came in October 2010, when Vujacic said he had proposed on the one-year anniversary of their first meeting at a friend’s barbecue.

Vujacic was there to support Sharapova at Wimbledon last year during her run to the final, even standing and screaming and pumping his fists in her guest box.

“It was a really nice period of time for both of us, but, you know, our career schedules just made it extremely difficult to see each other with the travelling, and

especially his career move to Turkey,” she said.

“He wasn’t able to travel much. He wasn’t home one time during the 10 months that he was in Turkey, so that made it extremely difficult,” Sharapova added.