Anastasia Myskina refused to back down on Thursday after saying she would not play for Russia if Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova joined the team.



"Why should I feel sorry for what I said yesterday?" Myskina said when asked if she regretted her words about the Florida-based teenager and her father.



"I don't want to be on the same team with people who don't show respect to me as a person. End of story."



Sharapova has been kept out of this year's Fed Cup team by ...

Russia Fed Cup coach Larisa Neiland feels it would be difficult for Maria Sharapova to break into the Russian team next year because of her father.



"I don't think she'll find it easy being on the same team with all the rest of our girls," said Neiland, speaking on the eve of the Fed Cup Final Four.



The 17-year-old Wimbledon champion has been kept out of the team by French Open champion Anastasia Myskina and U.S. Open winner Svetlana Kuznetsova as Russia looking for their fi...

Yesterday an organizer of the Watsons Water Champions Challenge announced that Maria Sharapova will participate in the 6th edition of the tournament which will be held between the 5th and the 8th of january.



In his speech, Mr. Colvin Brown said “With immense pride, I am delighted to reveal that we have secured three Grand Slam champions and the World's No. 1 player to compete in our event.”


The President went on to explain that the Mixed Men's & Ladies Event from 2004 could n...

"Ave, Maria!" shouted Izvestia. Evening newspaper Vechernyaya Moskya headlined with a nationalist twist: "Good Masha, You're Still Ours. Russia heralded Maria Sharapova victory at the WTA Championships this week as souvenir supplements highlighted the countries success on the major stage in 2004.



"Maria Sharapova won the final victorious point of the best season ever for Russian tennis," the business daily Kommersant commented.



Izvestia compared her dramatic win over Serena...

World number four Maria Sharapova has pledged $56,000, the money from the sale of the Porsche Cayenne sports car the 17-year-old was awarded after her victory in Los Angeles to the families of the victims of the Beslan school hostage tragedy in which 344 people died in September.



It was the first time that the winner of season-ending WTA Championships was awarded a Porsche to donate to the charity of her choice.