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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2018 18:43:09 GMT
Maria Sharapova says she will end her 2018 season early, and she is withdrawing from the China Open in Beijing, the Tianjin Open and the Kremlin Cup in Moscow due to her recovery from a right shoulder injury. "I will miss competing at each of these tournaments, but it is important that I allow for proper rest and recovery in the upcoming weeks," Sharapova said in a statement on the WTA website. Sharapova, ranked 24th in the world, was the defending champion at Tianjin.
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Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2018 18:50:35 GMT
Playing in a Grand Slam final is one kind of nerve-racking, but another challenge proved too much for even five-time major champion Maria Sharapova. http://instagram.com/p/BpmmmPRglPF Head Tennis had Sharapova play a mega version of a game resembling Operation, with the added task of simultaneously answering questions about herself.
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Post by Admin on Dec 20, 2018 18:54:32 GMT
In part, it’s to tell my story, and it’s also to understand it. In many ways, my childhood is a mystery, even to me. I’m always being asked the same questions: How did I get here? How did I do it? What went right, what went wrong? As I said, if I’m known for one thing, it’s toughness, my ability to keep going when things look bad. People want to know where that quality comes from and, because everyone is hoping for their own chance, how to acquire it. I’ve never figured it out myself. In part, it’s because of who knows? If you look too deeply, maybe you destroy it. It’s my life and I want to tell it. I talk to reporters, but I never tell everything I know. Maybe now is the time to open up the door for more questions, and to make sense of my life and get down the early days before I forget. I hope people take away every kind of lesson, good and bad. This is a story about sacrifice, what you have to give up. But it’s also just the story of a girl and her father and their crazy adventure. From five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, the candid, captivating story of her rise to tennis stardomIn the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don’t speak English. The two have arrived from Russia with only seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this seven-year-old will be the next tennis star. Amazingly, they are right.Young Maria Sharapova went on to win Wimbledon at just seventeen years old, in an astonishing upset against reigning champion Serena Williams—the match that kicked off their legendary rivalry and placed Sharapova on the international stage. At eighteen, she reached the number-one WTA ranking for the first time, and has held that ranking many times since. In this gripping autobiography, the five-time Grand Slam winner recounts the story of her phenomenal rise to success, narrated with the same no-holds-barred, fiercely provocative attitude that characterizes her tennis game. Full of thrilling, insightful episodes from her beginnings in Siberia, from career-defining games, and from her recent fight to get back on the court, Unstoppable is an inspiring tale of persistence, pulsing with fearlessness and candor. Sharapova’s is an utterly unforgettable story.
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2018 18:55:18 GMT
Former World No.1 Maria Sharapova of Russia was made to work for a first-round win by former Top 10 player Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland at the Shenzhen Open on Monday, but Sharapova ultimately prevailed 6-2, 7-6(3) to clinch a spot in the second round.
Bacsinszky and Sharapova had played four times previously -- dating back to 2006 -- but the Russian got the upper hand for the fourth time in their five head-to-head affairs, after one hour and 42 minutes of play. Sharapova powered her way past Bacsinszky, blasting 23 winners, nearly five times more than the Swiss starlet had in the match.
Sharapova, a huge fan favorite of the lively Shenzhen crowds, will have to contend with a potential Chinese heroine in her next match, as she will face 17-year-old wild card Wang Xinyu. Wang is a heavily touted up-and-coming hope for China, who won two junior Grand Slam events in doubles last season.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2019 18:45:40 GMT
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Maria Sharapova | 2019 Shenzhen Open Quarterfinal | WTA Highlights Aryna Sabalenka booked her place in the Shenzhen Open semifinals following Maria Sharapova’s second-set retirement. Maria Sharapova is a doubt for this year’s Australian Open after being forced to retire from her Shenzhen Open quarter-final match against Aryna Sabalenka with a thigh injury. The former world No 1 struggled to move on court and conceded the opening set 6-1, with coach Thomas Hogstedt urging the Russian to take her game to the next level or call for a medical timeout. “If you feel more like you did on the first point, then you just stop. Or you take a medical now,” he said. “But the shots are there … you have to get it up to another gear.”
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