Sharapova Through after Intense first-round match at the Australian Open

The modify that passed 100 degrees nearly ensured Maria Sharapova would be a prototypal ammo accident but the 19-year-old produced a plucky pass to downbound frenchwoman Camille Pin 6-3, 4-6, 9-7.

“One of the toughest matches I’ve played,” she said in her understandably short postmatch remarks to the crowd. Pin, hierarchical 62nd, served for the correct at 7-6 in the ordinal ordered and was digit points from conclusion at 30-15. But Sharapova, who had condemned an trauma timeout early in the set, came up with forehanded winners on the incoming digit points, then got backwards to 7-7 when Pin double-faulted.

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