Sharapova withdraw from Dubai Tennis Championships

Organizers of Dubai Tennis Championships confirmed on Thursday the withdrawal of two leading players Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams for health reasons, the tournament’s official website reported.

Sharapova, world number one and Dubai Women’s Open 2006 runner-up, has withdrawn from the tournament because of a hamstring injury that she suffered during the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, the report said.

“I am very disappointed to have to withdraw from the Dubai Tennis Championships because the hamstring that I injured in Tokyo is not yet healed. I tried to do everything possible to be in condition to play in Dubai as it is one of my favorite tournaments, but unfortunately I’m not ready. I’m looking forward to continuing to recover as quickly as possible so that I can get back on the court competing,” Sharapova was quoted as saying.

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Maria Sharapova - Tokyo Greetings

If your a susbcriber at Sharapova’s official site you would have received this letter this morning:

Greetings from Tokyo!

I’m in Tokyo getting ready to play my next event. I love coming back here as I have so many happy memories including winning my 1st event here over 3 years ago and winning here 2 years ago. There was a press conference a few days ago, check out all the photos in the gallery! Keep coming back to the site for all the latest news and remember to go the forum to follow all the scores with other fans.

After playing here I will take a break for a couple of weeks and my next event will be Dubai. It was funny as there was rain last year and I had to play Hingis and Davenport in 1 day, you really don’t expect rain in the desert!

I got to the final of the Australian Open which was my first tournament this year and that was a lot to be proud of. In fact, in celebration of making it to the finals my official store is offering 15% off everything in the memorabilia and photos department! There are some pretty cool things in there like trading cards and photos and there’s even a framed piece with a snippet of the net from one of my matches! They’ve made it really easy so all you have to do is click here and you’ll go straight to my store. Enjoy!

Speak to you soon!!

Maria

Maria Sharapova’s Official Site Finally Launches

It’s here!, Sharapova’s Official Site has finally made it’s debut.

It looks pretty good,although i personally am not a fan of total flash sites.

I’m using Firefox and it does seem that the site doesn’t work to well with it, i had to revert back to IE 6 to gain the full site experience, how bout you?

On the site there are many Photos and Videos of Sharapova even pics of her as a youngster, she was good looking back than too!.

Besides the pics and video there’s her stats,rankings,accomplisments,forums, news and even more thing personal like her “Top 10 MP3’s”.

Enough of chatter, check out her site for yourself at

Maria Sharapova Official Site -Launching Soon

This just in!…Maria Sharapova’s Official site is set to be released on the 21st of August 2006!

As you know this is an unofficial site, a fan site, but her official site will feature:

Canon Photo Blog
Where you will be able to check out Sharapova’s photos captured with my Canon PowerShot!

Club Sharapova
Gain access to exclusive photos, videos, wallpapers and much more!

Spread the word!