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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2018 18:43:33 GMT
] Serena Williams will not win the first Grand Slam she’s played since giving birth to her child last September. In a shocking development, the most highly anticipated match thus far at the French Open — a fourth-rounder between Williams and 28th seed Maria Sharapova — did not take place when Williams withdrew with a chest muscle injury. While theirs is a lopsided head-to-head with the 451st-ranked Williams leading an overwhelming 19-2 over Sharapova, their encounters have always been considered a top rivalry in this era of the game as much for what took place on the court as their far different off-court personalities. “I unfortunately have been having some issues with my pec, my pec muscle, and has unfortunately been getting worse to the point where right now I can’t actually serve,” Williams told the media in Paris when announcing her withdrawal. “It’s kind of hard to play when I can’t physically serve.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 19:04:46 GMT
Two-time champion Sharapova was gifted a walkover when Williams pulled out injured ahead of their last-16 tie, but the Russian's Paris progress came to a crashing halt with a 6-2 6-1 defeat by Spain's 2016 winner Muguruza.
Sharapova was back at Roland Garros for the first time since a 15-month suspension for testing positive for the banned heart drug meldonium ended last April, but her comeback has been beset by injury and she has been well short of the form that delivered five grand slam singles titles.
The 31-year-old made 27 unforced errors compared with third-seed Muguruza's 15 and took 29 minutes to win her first game of the match on Court Philippe Chatrier.
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2018 18:40:52 GMT
Maria Sharapova left the French Open without much of a fight, but had enough left in the tank to deliver a parting shot at Serena Williams. Following her 70-minute defeat to Garbine Muguruza 6-2, 6-1 in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros on Wednesday, the Russian spent a portion of her press conference addressing criticism made by her rival about her autobiography, in which Williams claimed the book was “100 percent hearsay.” “When you’re writing an autobiography, I don’t think there is any reason to write anything that’s not true,” Sharapova said. In “Unstoppable” — Sharapova’s autobiography — the 31-year-old said her rivalry with Williams started after 2004 Wimbledon, where Sharapova won her first Grand Slam by defeating Williams in straight sets.
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Post by Admin on Aug 11, 2018 19:16:55 GMT
Garcia got her second straight win over Maria Sharapova this year, claiming 12 of the final 15 games ot the match. Garcia completed a 6-3 6-2 victory to to advance to the seventh quarter-final of the season. Three double faults in the final game became too much for a mentally fragile Sharapova once more, including the eighth on match point. Garcia struck 15 winners to the Russian's 17 and committed just 10 unforced errors to 23. Sharapova dropped a combined five games across two matches here in Montreal, and she was the first to break to move 2-0 up. Approaching career win milestone No.600, currently sitting at No.593, the Russian was bidding for her 97th victory over Top 10 opponents and to extend her 36-9 mark over French players. But Garcia put the second best-performing active player on hardcourts under plenty of pressure on serve. She grabbed the break straight back before forcing Sharapova to dig deep to score a massive hold at 2-2 after 11 minutes. But Garcia reeled off the next four games in a row, breaking twice more to put away the match in an hour and 30 minutes.
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Post by Admin on Sept 2, 2018 18:19:09 GMT
Under the bright lights of the US Open, Maria Sharapova brings her best. With victories in the first two rounds of this year's tournament, the 2006 champion has improved her career record in US Open night matches to 22-0. She extended that winning streak on Saturday night, to 22-0, knocking out former French Open champion and No. 10 seed, Jelena Ostapenko, in the third round inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, 6-3, 6-2. Though she is appearing in her 12th US Open, it took the Russian awhile to fall in love with the buzz of the Big Apple.
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