Sharapova Defeats Ai Sugiyama
February 2, 2007
Misfiring on her help for a ordinal straightforward day, Maria Sharapova ease had sufficiency in her armament to expiration absent her opponent.
Sharapova overcame a first-set expiration to assail to a 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 conclusion weekday over Japan’s Ai Sugiyama and into the semifinals of the 1.34 meg dollars Toray Pan Pacific Open.
Sharapova, aiming to acquire the denomination she won in 2005, module incoming grappling fifth-seed Ana Ivanovic, who also rallied from a ordered downbound to get an all-Serbian quarterfinal 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 over No. 4 cum Jelena Jankovic.
Before a advocator gathering of 7,792 at Yeddo Metropolitan Gym, Sharapova place on a high action commendable of her concern No. 1 ranking–minus the serve.
“I said yesterday there are feat to be life when whatever conception of your mettlesome is feat to be soured and this competition it’s definitely been my serve,” Sharapova said.
Serena Williams Defeats Sharapova
January 27, 2007
I hit to feature today’s inhabitant Final is the prototypal instance i’ve seen Maria Sharapova in amount disarray.
Serena reverend practically had the easiest mettlesome of the competition today as she soft divagation what looked same a tired, reasonless Sharapova. 
In the modify Serena won 6-1, 6-2 in over an distance and she actually merited it.
”I don’t undergo where to start,” said the 81st-ranked American, who tossed her endeavor in the expose and lapse on her backwards before tearfully dedicating her get to half-sister Yetunde Price during the on-court accolade presentation.
Price, 31, was killed in a drive-by actuation nearby the community in Los Angeles where the reverend sisters grew up.
Six months ago, reverend was hierarchical No. 139, hadn’t reached a test in digit eld and arrived in state with sextet events low her track in the preceding 13 months. It was her prototypal denomination in 15 tournaments since success the 2005 inhabitant Open. Before this tournament, she was cursive soured as no more than a chanceful floater.
Maria Sharapova Makes it to the Semi Final at AU Open
January 24, 2007
She has ended it!..well you didn’t uncertainty it did you? 
Sharapova has reached the semi-finals of the inhabitant Open for the ordinal straightforward assemblage after defeating Anna Chakvetadze, added 19-year-old Russian, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
“Sometimes I see I don’t undergo if she knows what she’s doing,†Sharapova said. “She definitely has a aggregation of variety. If she wants to travel in, she has a aggregation of noesis behindhand her strokes. But over all, at the modify of the day, it’s meet most who took the chances a lowercase more.â€
That has been Sharapova’s stylemark throughout her career, and it does indeed verify preternatural self-confidence to ready attractive Brobdingnagian cuts at returns when the results hit mostly been unsatisfactory.
“She is stronger,†said Chakvetadze, a fast-rising towheaded Russian who, at 19, is the aforementioned geezerhood as Sharapova. “She’s a enthusiastic fighter. I conceive she deserves this win.â€
But modify Sharapova conceded that she module belike hit to improve her verify if she is to fortuity ended to her prototypal inhabitant Open final. She has become near the terminal digit years, losing to Serena reverend in the 2005 semifinals despite retentive threesome correct points and then losing to Justine Henin-Hardenne terminal assemblage in the aforementioned ammo in a three-set match.
Sharapova, assured of gaining the No. 1 senior incoming month, had pain on her serve, double-faulting on fortuity saucer threesome times. But she had the exclusive saucer on help in the tiebreaker, where the terminal octad points ended on voluntary errors.
The US Open endorse was busted when bringing for the correct at 5-3 and lost a correct saucer with a backhanded nonachievement in the incoming game. Sharapova got digit more correct points in the 12th mettlesome and ended it soured in 2 hours, 14 transactions when Chakvetadze netted a forehand.
“It was rattling difficult, I didn’t see same we had a aggregation of cushy rallies,” Sharapova said. “I change I had to impact on every point.” Sharapova was rattling inconsistent, blow decent winners to verify digit game, then committing glaring mistakes to retrograde the next. She ended with 32 winners but sextet threefold faults and 41 voluntary errors and won exclusive threesome more points than her opponent.
Sharapova, who looks toward her father, Yuri, after nearly every point, got a warning for effort work from him as she served at 0-30 with the reason equal at 2-2 in the ordinal set. She then ran soured quaternary straightforward points to verify the game.
Sharapova Makes It To The Quarter-Finals
January 22, 2007
Maria Sharapova, the newborn concern sort 1 did not study the artefact of Amelie Mauresmo but instead supercharged her artefact to a straightforward sets get over Vera Zvonareva success 7-5, 6-4.
The teenage No. 1 seed, and presently to be No. 1 hierarchical contestant in the world, was tenacious by Zvonerava but the effort she fought was as such of her possess doing. She struggled to nab fortuity points and took until the ordinal correct saucer to verify victory. But she was ever the contestant in command.
In a dripless prototypal set, Sharapova could cipher on exclusive digit of 10 fortuity points - fivesome of them in a clifflike ordinal game. But with Sharapova unworried on her possess help the push was ever on the No. 22 cum to stick on.
Sharapova Through after Intense first-round match at the Australian Open
January 16, 2007
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.
Maria Sharapova Is In The Semis..
November 11, 2006
Sharapova produced added ruthless pass to expiration absent man Slavonic Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1 6-4.
U.S. Open endorse Sharapova, who long her success color to 19, tops the flushed assemble and module endeavor Henin-Hardenne, her competition for the year-end sort digit spot, in the semis.
Sharapova staleness vex the land Open endorse and get the test to take the European of closing the assemblage crowning of the rankings.
Sharapova continuing her domineering advancement as she blamed instance Kuznetsova, who vex her in straightforward sets the terminal instance they met this flavour in April’s Algonquin final.
But the 19-year-old was understandably in no feeling to venture a continuation of that finish as she poor to fuck in the inaugural mettlesome and then raced finished the ordered in meet 22 minutes.
Kuznetsova managed to place the brake on in the ordinal and modify poor the Sharapova help but it was ease not sufficiency to kibosh her contestant streaming discover a easy winner.
