TENNIS - Maria Sharapova will play against Li Na in the semifinal of the 2013 Australian Open on Thursday. Sharapova has lost nine games in the first five matches of this tournament. This equals the second fewest number of games lost in a Grand Slam tournament for players reaching the final four (only players with five completed matches taken into account).
TENNIS - Maria Sharapova’s fourth career double bagel at a Grand Slam propelled her into the top 10 of that statistical category. There are six players that have recorded more. The record holder is Chris Evert on 13.
TENNIS - Maria Sharapova became the third woman in Open era history to register back-to-back ‘double bagels’ (6-0, 6-0 triumphs) in the same Grand Slam tournament, joining Margaret Court, who performed the feat in the second and third rounds of the 1973 Australian Open and Wendy Turnbull who did the same in Rounds 1 and 2 of the 1985 Australian Open.
TENNIS - Maria Sharapova’s fourth round exit at Wimbledon at the hands of Germany’s Sabine Lisicki signalled the sixth time in the history of the women’s singles at SW19 that the top seed has made her exit prior to the quarterfinals. It is also the first time that this has happened in successive years.
TENNIS - Maria Sharapova has won the 2012 French Open and has thereby won a career Grand Slam, having won each of the four Majors at least once. She is the sixth person to achieve this in the Open era, joining Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams.
TENNIS - The 2012 Roland Garros women’s singles final will be played between Maria Sharapova (RUS) and Sara Errani (ITA). For Maria Sharapova, it will be a unique opportunity to sharply etch her name in the tennis history books. In her first ever final on the clay courts in Paris on her 10th attempt, she can complete the Career Grand Slam.
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