Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth19 April 1987
CityNyagan, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Physically it was very difficult to keep up with Svetlana today. I just wasn't physically ready to run down a lot of balls.
She's a great mover and makes you play another ball, but I was ready for that.
She's a complete player. There's no big weakness in her game. I have to be ready for a tough match.
I should have finished it off, but that's not the way it went. But I have to forget about it and get ready for the final.
Right now the most important thing to become number one is to be healthy and ready to play. When you are healthy and happy, then you perform your best, so that's very important that I'm healthy.
I don't think I'm ready for it now,
It's disappointing but no hard feelings, ... I know you can't win everything and you're going to lose sometimes. I'll go home and train now and get ready for the U.S. Open.
I think we got the point that there was a soccer match or something going on.
I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.
I think it's the toughest grand slam to win because of the traffic getting here and the busy city.
It gives me a lot of confidence that I can pull out a win like that when there are points in the match where you don't feel great.
I think today I played much better, especially in the first set, than in my first match on Wednesday,
Overall I'm happy to get through the match, but it definitely wasn't the best match I played,
I think I learn a lot from losses and they make me a lot tougher,