I don’t know that it would have been so easy if she had to face Lindsay Davenport in the semis but that’s tennis and Maria Sharapova walked away from the Bausch & Lomb Championships with her first clay court title. Sharapova beat Dominika Cibulkova 7-6, 6-3 en route.
You know, I think my job would be […]
I played tennis yesterday. The weather was glorious and my tennis game…sucked. I realize I haven’t played in almost a year. That doesn’t do wonders for tennis skills.
There were moments of brilliance. A wicked cross-court backhand winner. A low bouncing forehand down the line. But they were fleeting - oh so fleeting. Obviously I […]
It wasn’t pretty and it certainly wasn’t short but Maria Sharapova managed to eke through a tough third round at the Bausch & Lomb Championships against Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Three set and three and a half hours later, Sharapova had survived a clay court test. It was just the thing she had been looking for […]
I’m not exactly sure when Novak Djokovic was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno but he was, at some point, fairly recently. I’m not a big fan of Jay Leno and it’s nothing personal - I don’t like any late night television. Maybe that makes me inhuman - I have no idea nor do […]
Maybe they’re going to start at the bottom and work their way up. Or maybe they’re just out to ruin a young tennis player’s life. Either way, it sucks for nine-year-old Lauryn Edwards who was banned by the Mount Caramel Tennis Club for grunting too loudly when she played. The ban came on the heels […]
It didn’t have a pretty start but the United States survived Germany in the quarterfinals of the Fed Cup and will be facing the Russians in the semifinals at the end of April. Time to get scared? I’m going to give that an affirmative.
Russia has its front-line battling for them. Maria Sharapova hasn’t lost a […]
After spending two and a half hours getting my car out of the snow, trying to find a place to park it, getting it stuck again and finally getting it out and landed at the liquor store, I find myself back on the couch and wondering why I got up this morning.
Considering the fact that I’m […]
The chips are in and the cards are down. The fortnight at the Australian Open is a closed book, but there are 10 moments from Down Under that were pretty special.
10. No Americans at the Australian Open past the quarterfinals.
I should take that back. There was one American who lost in the semifinals and that […]
I knew Maria Sharapova was going to win the Australian Open after she beat Justine Henin in the quarters. Not that there is any great super power in that. I’m sure many tennis fans worldwide were cognizant of the same thing.
But watching Sharapova take a straight-set 7-5, 6-3 victory over Ana Ivanovic in the Australian Open […]
I may not like Maria Sharapova too much, but I’m not a complete jerk and I’ll give credit where credit is due. Sharapova rolled No. 1 Justine Henin in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in a dominant 6-4, 6-0 show.
Beating the world’s No. 1 is no easy task, and Sharapova made it look like […]
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Written by Erica Beck [email] for b5media.
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