Brent Hunsberger, the man behind the Playbooks and Profiles blog at The Oregonian, is reporting that Le Coq Sportif plans to scale back its North American operations, a move likely brought on by the weak dollar and slow U.S. economy.
Maria Sharapova beat Tzipi Obziler 6-0 6-4 to even the tie at 1 with Israel. Sharapova didn’t drop a game taking the first set with ease.
This weekend sees the opening round of the Federation Cup and unfortunately for the tournament, the weakest field of players in years. In newly crowned Australian Open Champion Maria Sharapova there is a controversial but much needed top ten player to liven up the competitions’ star-starved first round fixtures.
Defending champions Russia travel to Israel in [...]
Maria Sharapova won the Australian Open now she hopes to help Russia defend their Fed Cup title. This will be Sharapova’s debut in Fed Cup and her first trip to Israel but she said there will be no sight seeing because she is focusing on the matches. The tie is this weekend.
The strong Russian [...]
The defending champion Maria Sharapova lost to Agnieszka Radwanska 4-6 6-1 2-6 in the third round of the US Open.
The set started with both players holding serve. The number two seed got a break but was broken right back. The next 3 point were on serve and Radwanska got a break to go up [...]
Maria Sharapova has withdrawn citing a strain in her lower left leg for Saturday’s semifinal of the JP Morgan Chase Open in Los Angeles. Sharapova hopes she will recover soon as she wants to defend her US Open title in 2 weeks.
The injury seems to be the same one she had 2 years ago and [...]
Maria Sharapova has made it to the second round but was made to fight against French woman Emilie Loit.On a rainy centrecourt the Russian proved too strong for the French beating Loit in straight sets 6-3 and 7/6.
The score however doesn’t say much about the match. Loit took a 4-2 lead in the second [...]
Maria Sharapova proved why “Made in Russia” stands for quality in the tennis world. She beat Taipei’s Chan in straight sets 63 62.
Masha who has been having a lot of trouble when playing matches showed that there still is something to her not allowing Chan to get a hold of her service games saving all [...]
Maria Sharapova will be the topseed after all as the organizers of the Sony Ericsson Open decided to use the rankings before Indian Wells. Yet last year they used the ones after the Pacific Life Open.
The young Russian who is going to turn 20 on April 19th has a first round bye and then will [...]
Maria Sharapova retires in her match vs Ana Ivanovic 1-6 1-0 retired in the semi’s of the Pan Pacific.
The first set started with the first two games on serve. Ana went on to take the next five games for the set.
The second set started with Sharapova winning the first game then pulling out because a [...]
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