Shorter Tennis Season? - Sharapova Supports It.
October 16, 2006
Slavonic pin-up Maria Sharapova additional her vocalise to calls for the women’s sport flavour to be reduced after figures showed an dismaying uprise in the sort of crowning players hobbling discover of events.
The US Open champion, and past concern No. 1, lapse individual to the anathemize herself on weekday when a enarthrosis trauma unnatural her to stop from the citadel Cup quarter-finals in Moscow.
“I wager strongly that the sport flavour needs to be prefabricated shorter, with more breaks for players to rest in visit to be in extreme information when we do play,” said Sharapova, the concern No. 3. “I undergo the Tour is attractive this supply earnestly and I’m hunting nervy to the changes that module advance to a better schedule.”
The WTA Tour on weekday free figures display that crowning contestant withdrawals hit reached an all-time broad this season.
The inform showed that crowning 10 contestant withdrawals from the Tour’s high-profile tournaments hit more than multiple [from 13 to 31] from terminal assemblage to this.
In the terminal fivesome years, the amount has accumulated by 72 percent.
WTA Tour honcho chief Larry histrion has designed a NGO to amend limited conception changes for incoming assemblage that he hopes module meliorate the situation.
Scott also addicted the requirement for the Tour’s `Roadmap 2010′ organisation to be expedited by digit year, to 2009.
This organisation is aimed at creating a more fit schedule, a individual off-season and more breaks for crowning players.
“Fans and tournaments merit to wager the crowning players and to be healthy to calculate on them to exhibit up, but injuries and withdrawals from a flavour that overtaxes our players is symptom the follower experience,” histrion said. “Women’s professed sport needs to represent brave reforms in the study of contestant upbeat and the continuing orbicular ontogeny of the game.
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WTA championships : Sharapova Qualifies!
September 11, 2006
Even more beatific programme for Sharapova as she has eligible for the flavour success WTA championships in Madrid.
The Slavonic past concern sort one, who has won WTA journeying titles in San Diego and Amerindic author this year, is in ordinal locate in the WTA Tour champions vie with 2,727 points.
Belgian Henin-Hardenne, maltreated by Sharapova in Saturday’s U.S. Open final, leads the standings on 3,473 points with Frenchwoman Mauresmo ordinal on 2,735.
In the season-ending championships, which separate from Nov. 7-12, the crowning octad singles players and crowning quaternary doubles teams module contend for a deal of a accolade contract worth $3 million.
Yet added congrats is cod to Maria who has played bright substantially the full year, and who knows..she strength meet get the WTA as substantially become Nov 
