Wimbledon: Maria won the silver medal at the olympic games

Serena Williams won first place and gold medal and Maria Sharapova (WTA ranking third) won the silver and Victoria Azarenka WTA ranking leader) the bronze, disputed this Saturday after the final and the match for third place women's tennis tournament of the Olympic Games in London in the 'Cathedral' of Wimbledon.

London: Maria beat Lisicki

Maria Sharapova survived the strength of the German Sabine Lisicki to reach the quarterfinals of the Olympic tennis tournament after winning in straight sets (6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3).

Maria said that sweets are on 20 August.

It's official!! Sugarpova is coming live August 20th....so exciting!!! And yes, its about time! Below is one of the flavors.

Maria enjoying a delicious dinner.

London, I'm baaaack! After a nice hit on the grass it's time for dinner with the Russian Olympic tennis team. We are currently waiting for dessert and tea...Russian style.

Novak and Maria are back on the set of another head tennis commercial

Novak and Maria  are back on the set of another HEAD Tennis commercial. And all I can say is that this one is sweet revenge.

Maria enjoying the few holidays

It's moments like these (besides the ones holding the trophy duhhh) that make the hard work seem so worth it. It certainly makes for a guilt-free getaway (umm server, can I get that pastry basket?)! Spending a few days on Lake Powell felt l...ike the clock stopped and the canyons just kept on rolling.
On a different note I just found out I'm nominated for 3 ESPYS awards this year including Comeback of the Year...wow thank you! Link below is where you can vote...am I allowed to vote too?! http://es.pn/Nke9BE

 

 

Wimbledon: Maria was eliminated in the second round late

The hopes of the Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova for a second title at Wimbledon on Monday when the world number one was eliminated in the fourth round of the tournament at the hands of the German Sabine Lisicki became extinct.

London - The hopes of the Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova for a second title at Wimbledon on Monday when the world number one was eliminated in the fourth round of the tournament at the hands of the German Sabine Lisicki became extinct.

Sharapova, first seeded at Wimbledon, fell 6-4 and 6-3 after less than an hour and a half of game.

Lisicki, number 15 of the world rankings, pressured Sharapova from the start and forced her to commit a series of unusual errors that allowed him to recover his defeat to Russia in the semifinals of last year.

The German, who had complained about the screams of Bojana Jovanovsky, his rival in the second round, had to endure the screams of Sharapova. However, he maintained the concentration and broke the serve of the Roland Garros champion in the 10th game of the first of the set.

Lisicki returned to break service to his rival in the second set and sealed the triumph to realize your third point with a direct throw.

Maria Sharapova leaves Wimbledon after stage 4. And after a short break he returned to London to participate in the Olympic Games.

Sharapova wins and you're in the second round of Wimbledon

The Russian won 6-1 6-4 against Su-Wei of Taipei.

London, 29 June-the maximum favorite for the title, the Russian Maria Sharapova took a step more towards its goal and this Friday to qualify to the second round of the Wimbledon tournament after overcoming uncomplicated to Hsieh Su-Wei of Taipei.

Sharapova, Monarch here in 2004 and runner-up last year, had an overwhelming start, and although his rival wanted to react in the second round, won without complications by 6-1, 6-4 after one hour and 21 minutes of play.

In a duel that took place in the Court one of the All England Club, the Siberian was strong in the first few minutes and after specified three service breaks took advantage.

But in the second round Roland Garros champion a few weeks ago made some mistakes - five double faults - that allowed the reaction of the Taiwanese, who improved on the first set but was not enough.

The winner finished with six breaks in his favour, three aces and five double faults, while his rival dismissed the third Grand Slam of the season with two, none and two respective way, both with 57 per cent of effectiveness in your service.

His opponent in the fourth round will be the German Sabine Lisicki, fifteenth in the preferences, who left on the road to the American Sloane Stephens in three sets, 7-6 (7/5), 1-6, 6-2 in one hour and 52 minutes.

Meanwhile, for the second round match, Jana Cepelova Slovak beated in a hard-fought game to Spanish Anabel Medina Garrigues, 6-7 (7/9), 7-6 (7/5) and 6-3, and will face in his next duel the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.

Results of the third round matches:

Maria Sharapova (RUS/1) to Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) 6-1, 6-4

Sabine Lisicki (ALE/15) to Sloane Stephens (USA) 7-6 (7/5), 1-6, 6-2

Second round result:

Jana Cepelova (SVK) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP/26) 6-7 (7/9), 7-6 (7/5), 6–3

Sharapova emerges unscathed after ding-dong battle

Sloppy. That is the way Maria Sharapova described her tennis when she returned to No.1 Court on Thursday to resume her second-round match against Tsvetana Pironkova, which was yesterday suspended due to bad light.

The top seed advanced to the third round with a 7-6(3), 6-7(3), 6-0 victory over the world No.38 in 2hr and 23mins and although she demolished the Bulgarian in the final set, she admitted to being shaky when she returned to do battle leading a set and 3-1.

It was perhaps not surprising given the previous day’s events and the calibre of her opponent. Quite simply, Tsvetana Pironkova knows how to conduct herself on the velvety lawns of the All England Club.

A semi-finalist here in 2010, a quarter-finalist a year ago before bowing out to eventual winner Kvitova, the Bulgarian was always going to prove a tricky contender for the Russian. Yet not many would have predicted that she would be the one showing the world No.1 who was boss on the hallowed turf at the start of the match at least.

But when Pironkova set about her business on Wednesday evening she was in devastating form delivering an array of punishing, accurate ground-strokes that pinned the Russian to the back of the court and helped her dart to a 3-0 lead.

Maria was by no means playing badly - producing the equivalent sparkling grass-court tennis that saw her dismantle world No.133 Anastasia Rodionova in 70 minutes in the previous round – but it was her 24-year-old opponent who was commanding the court, powering back deep balls with interest and precision.

“I think if she played on grass 365 days a year she’d be top five probably,” Sharapova said after the match.  “Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that. She has the perfect game for it, she always does well against top players, she really rises for the occasion.”

Pironkova’s mastery of grass allowed the Bulgarian to carve out her first set point opportunity on serve at 5-2 but the French Open champion denied her that chance by delivering a blistering forehand.  

A further four set points passed Pironkova by – at one stage she had 0-40 on the Russian’s serve – but  by then it was too late. Sharapova had clawed her way back into the match, pocketed the set on a tie-break and earned an early break to lead 3-1 in the second before bad light intervened at 9.02pm, halting the day’s play.

When the women returned at 1pm on Thursday in humid conditions to pick up where they left off, the top seed looked sluggish and an error-strewn tie-break peppered with double faults cost the 2004 Wimbledon champion the second set.

“I started with no motor whatsoever, I was just on pause, everything... my feet,” Sharapova said.

“I felt like everything was a little bit slow. I wasn’t moving up to the ball, she hit a few short balls. I made errors, I let her play. I didn’t feel like there was enough pace on my ball... she’s someone that just comes out and just fires and if things go well, they go well.”

Even so, Sharapova managed to banish the so-called sloppiness from her game by the final set. Aggressive play saw her win six games on the trot to claim the match and set up a third-round clash with Su-Wei Hsieh.

Sharapova discusses with Simon for topic of prizes in money.

 The Russian Maria Sharapova greets the public after defeating Anastacia Rodionova of Australia in         Wimbledon.

The Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova joked of his French colleague Gilles Simon on Thursday for having said that the women were not deserving the same prizes in money that the men, appearing that " there are more people who sees my parties that them of him ". After going on to third round in the Opened Britisher, Sharapova, maxim preclasificada of the tilt, he said that the women had fought very much to equalize the prizes of the tennis.

" It was a great challenge and nobody supported us ", he declared one of the world the número. " Some years have happened since we achieve it. We are really proud of it and are going to continue constructing the sport to make it bigger ", he added. For your part, the American tennis player Serena Williams - four times champion in Wimbledon - also interfered in the discussion. " She is much better than he ", Williams declared, referring to his Russian rival. Simon should have confronted the topic in the press conference later to his defeat in the second round opposite to the Belgian Xavier Malisse, in which 15 of 16 questions were on the topic of the prizes. The Frenchman hurried to indicating that the spectators had to pay 15 pounds sterlings (23,26 dollars) more in the masculine final than in the feminine one.

" Only look at the prices of the income by the masculine final and of the feminine one, for example. Thereby it works ", it held. " I have the sensation that the masculine tennis is more interesting than the feminine tennis ", added the Gallic player, insisting in that was a question of entertainment and not of the quantity of sets that are played. The men play parties to better of five sets, whereas the women do it to better of three. " When Shakira sings, more money wins that the majority of the men because the whole world wants to see her. It is like that ", held Simon.

The Frenchman said that he was sure that most of the tennis players men were thinking in the same way as he when he speaks with them in the wardrobes. " Maybe they cannot say it, maybe do not do it, probably 2 million dollars lose in his contracts if they say it ", he noticed. BEGINNING OF EQUALITY After losing in sets traversed before Malisse, a journalist suggested that Simon should return 20 per cent of the entry for his party because it had not managed to compare the value of the worn-out money. " Maria is more famous than I ", said Simon. " I know it. She deserves to gain more money him that I. This it is not the problem ", it continued.

Williams clarified that he believes that the feminine tennis frequently criticized in comparison with the golden age which he enjoys the masculine tennis with the presence of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, is so valuable as is deserved. " The feminine tennis is really impressive ", was affirmed by it. " It is the great one fights. For years (we) also fight with Billie Jean King and Venus (his major sister) ", he added. Four tilts of the Grand Slam pay the same quantity of money in prizes for men and women. Stacey Allaster, executive chairwoman of the WTA - governing entity of the feminine tennis-, published a communiqué related to the debate.

" The tennis, including (tilts of) Grand Slam, is aligned by our modern and progressive company when it is a question of the beginning of equality ", he noticed. " I cannot believe that in these days there is anybody who could think otherwise. This type of thoughts are the reason for the one that was founded the WTA and always we will fight for this right ", it underlined.

Wimbledon: Maria and Kim

Maria vs Rodionova on Monday

Maria will play her Wimbledon first round match on Monday against world no.133 Anastasia Rodionova of Australia.

This match will be played on Centre Court and is the second match of the day and the schedule of play begins at 1.00 PM local time (2.00 PM CET, 8.00 AM ET & 5.00 AM PT).

Maria leads the series 4-0 against Rodionova, here are the matches they have played against each other:
2003 Roland Garros QR1: Maria won 6-3 6-3
2006 Los Angeles R2: Maria won 6-3 6-1
2007 Australian Open R2: Maria won 6-0 6-3
2011 Cincinnati R2: Maria won 6-1 6-3

The weather forecast for Monday is cloudy.

Sharapova means business

When Maria Sharapova bowed out to Petra Kvitova in the 2011 Wimbledon finals she had no idea what the future had in store. Twelve months on the Russian is in possession of a career Grand Slam having won the French Open in Paris just a few weeks ago and a world No.1 ranking. And should Sharapova’s sparkling form continue, she will become the first female player since Serena Williams in 2002 to win Roland Garros and Wimbledon back to back.

However, the top seed is under no illusion about the difficulty of that particular feat. “I think it’s the toughest back to back Grand Slam-wise, no doubt,” said Sharapova this afternoon. “Especially if you’re coming off a French Open win or a final it’s the toughest turnaround. As much as you want to celebrate and enjoy, you come here and it’s like a whole new ballgame.”

While it is never easy wearing the runner’s up hat –especially in a Grand Slam final – Sharapova describes last year’s Wimbledon adventure as a “big step in the right direction,” for her career.
“It was the first time in a few years where I had reached the end of Wimbledon, it had been a while,” she recalled. “It was just really good to be at that stage of a Grand Slam again. I was really happy that I was here. You come off that loss and as tough as it is to lose Grand Slam finals, probably one of the toughest things for a tennis player, it’s really about getting yourself back out there and improving and hoping for another chance.”

Of course the All England Club provides many happy memories for Sharapova, who claimed the scalp of Serena Williams in 2004 to lift her maiden Grand Slam title in 2004 at the tender age of 17. Since then the 25-year-old has been prone to injury - a troublesome shoulder saw her undergo traumatic reconstruction in October 2008. But her sheer hard work and determination has paid off – her Roland Garros victory proved to be her first Grand Slam title in more than four years.

Now Sharapova is back on SW19 soil and means business. Like last year, she refrained from playing in a warm up even ahead of The Championships. The reason? “I don’t think I was physically ready,” she said. But the Russian has been practising here for more than a week and “feels good”.

“I think everybody knows the meaning of this tournament for me, ever since I was a young girl, how special it was," she adds. To be part of its history for the rest of my career and life means a lot. I certainly hope I can achieve the success I had many years ago here."

Wimbledon 2012 Draw

Wimbledon 2012 Draw

The draw for the third Grand Slam of the year at Wimbledon has been released and Maria is the top seed and will face world no.133 Anastasia Rodionova of Australia in the first round on Monday.

Maria leads the series 4-0 against Rodionova, here are the matches they have played against each other:
2003 Roland Garros QR1: Maria won 6-3 6-3
2006 Los Angeles R2: Maria won 6-3 6-1
2007 Australian Open R2: Maria won 6-0 6-3
2011 Cincinnati R2: Maria won 6-1 6-3

The first seed Maria can meet is no.29 seed Monica Niculescu of Romania in the third round.

This will be Maria's tenth appearance at the All England Club and her best result was her magical run to the title in 2004.  Last year, Maria made her second appearance in the final but this time she lost to reigning champion Petra Kvitova.

Wimbledon Opening Party

It has carried out the traditional opening party at Wimbledon, for the second consecutive year the board met British fashion designers of the main UK to create costumes for the best female Tennis players of these designs the product will be in auction it used for charitable purposes.

 7 players were chosen to wear the dresses.
 
Maria Sharapova: Antonio Berardi.
Serena Williams: Christopher Bailey / Buberry.
Agnieszka Radwanska: Emma Hill / Mulberry .
Petra Kvitova: Sarah Burton / Alexander McQueen                                                                                  Caroline Wozniacki: Stella McCartney.
Ana Ivanovic: Matthew Williamson .
Li Na: Giles Deacon.

Photos:

Wimbledon : Maria dress (original )

Maria posing with the dress to be used in Wimbledon.

australian open 2013: maria, Vicka and djokovic in advertising campaign

has launched an advertising campaign for 2013 will not waste time using the players to achieve their purposes.

chelsea handler congratulates Maria Sharapova

chelsea gives a shout out (on june 12th 12) to maria on winning the us open.

Forbes publishes the mejorea full athletes

#26 Maria Sharapova

Total earnings: $27.9 million
Salary/winnings: $5.9 million
Endorsements: $22 million

The world's highest-paid female athlete earns much more off the court than on it, thanks to deals with Evian, Head, Nike, Samsung and Tag Heuer. Sales for the Maria Sharapova Collection, her line of products at Nike subsidiary Cole Haan, doubled last year. Her ballet flat is the best selling female shoe for Cole Haan. Next up: her own candy company called Sugarpova.



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Maria, nominated for best athlete in the 2012 Teen Choice Awards

Maria Sharapova was nominated in the category of'' best athlete'' on the adjudication of worldwide fame among teenagers in the Teen Choice Awards 2012. Teen Choice icons held the teens best of television, music, movies, sports, comedy Moday. will be a two-hour event and broadcast live on Sunday, July 22 ( 8:00 _10: 00 pm ET