Friday, 3 June 2011

Maria Sharapova: Will Sharapova Ever Be Capable to Conquer the French Open?






Maria Sharapova Ousted By Li Na in French Open Semifinals
After years of struggles, it seemed more and more resembling Maria Sharapova was going to conquer her mud demons once and for all this year.
After once relating herself as a "cow on ice" when playing on mud, Sharapova won the Rome Masters in believable style, and then steamrolled her way to the semifinals at the French Open.
Unluckily, coming up for her was not any other than Li Na, who became the first Chinese player to ever take part in a Grand Slam final when she squared off against Kim Clijsters at the Australian Open. She easily defeated the 24-year-old Russian 6-4, 7-5 to move on to her second directly Grand Slam final.
Just like that, Sharapova's mission to become the 10th woman in history to absolute a career Grand Slam fell separately./
Now that Sharapova's all-to-brief runs of triumph on clay, we obviously have to wonder whether or not it was a stroke of luck. And after watching her gets outclassed by Li on the red clay of Roland Garros, it definitely seems like this may be the case.
While heavy air stream was certainly a feature, Sharapova's power game just wasn't much of an argument for Li's athleticism. She was all over the court, and it just seemed like she had an answer for everything Sharapova threw at her.
This evidently had a negative result on Sharapova's confidence, which physically guided her to try to do too much with her serves. The result: 10 double-faults, counting on match point.
The good news is that Sharapova is going to have abundance more opportunities to win the French Open. The dreadful news is that she may never get another opportunity like the one she just had.
The cards were definitely piled in Sharapova's good turn in this year's tournament. The field was without Serena Williams, Clijsters was coming off an ankle injury, and Sharapova had just shown in Rome that she is proficient of handling world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki. reasonable
Make no mistake, this was a reasonable chance, and Sharapova couldn't exploit. As a result, she may very well be stuck on three out of four for the rest of her career.

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