Maria Sharapova 2008

The year 2008 begins well for Maria Sharapova. After she has recovered form the injury on her shoulder, Maria concentrated on the other precious objective: the third Slam of the career. It happened at Melbourne to the Australian Open. In the course of the torneo she obtains prestigious victories : she defeats Lindsay Davenport, the Serbs Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic, but she she is defeated by the n.1 of the world Justine Henin (she had 32 wins in a row). 2008 for the first time see Maria to wear the mesh of Russia: in fact she has made her debut in Fed Cup in the first turn against the Israel, winning the 2 left played. 24 February gains the torneo Qatar Total Open to Doha (Qatar) defeating in end the True compatriot Zvonareva for 61 26 60. The Russian, still inbattuta in 2008, arrives to the II tier I (Indian Wells, that she won in 2006 on Elena Dementieva) of the year with the favor of the pronostici. After a beginning not completely convincing Masha he arrives in the quarters of end where she defeats for the 7-6 6-1 detentrice of the title it and fresh semifinalist to australian open the Daniela Hantucova. The road towards the III tito ages it them seems smoothed by now when in semiend comes been strange from the compatriot Svetlana Kouznetsova, than she did not win against the beautiful Siberian from the end of Miami 2006. After this unexpected result, than however she improves her result of 2007, Maria announces that the torneo of Miami will not play from which the slid year Serene Siberian Williams.La has been malamente eliminated from the future vincitrice of the title it ripresenta on the field to the torneo of Amelia Island where the battle protrae till the tie begins in best of the ways the season on the earth winning in end against the Slovakian emergent Dominika Cibulkova with the score of the 7-6 6-3.In first set break where Maria gains thanks to its proverbiale physical and psychological resistance, while in according to set music she changes totally and the Sharapova is limited to control the adversary who slowly surrenders. To the International ones of Rome, the Siberian withdraws little hours before the semiend, than she would have opposite the Jankovic Serb, for of the muscular problems to a calf. Maria returns however number one of tennis thanks to the withdrawal of the Belgian Justine Henin, dominatrice of feminine tennis before the goodbye to the competitions. Al Roland Garros, loses to eighth at the hands of the compatriot Dinara Safina and yields the first place of the classfica to the Serb Ana Ivanovic, after that this last conquest its first title it of the Slam striking in end in charge of the unravelled one of Maria, that is the Safina. To Wimbledon 2008, Sarapova is surprising eliminated to according to turn from the compatriot To the Kudryavtseva for 6-2 6-4.

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