Maria Sharapova simply couldn't bear the thought of a U.S. Open taking place without her. So while sidelined with a torn shoulder a year ago, she refused to follow the tournament on TV.
Basically pretended it wasn't happening.

On Tuesday night, Sharapova was right where she likes to be: on the Grand Slam stage and in the spotlight. The 2006 U.S. Open champion returned to the tournament with an impressive 6-3, 6-0 victory over Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria.

"I was in the physical th...

Russian Maria Sharapova signaled she might be close to a return to top form by dismissing 10th seeded Nadia Petrova 6-3 6-4 in the first round of the $2 million Toronto Cup on Monday.

While her current ranking of 49th in the world suggests Sharapova provided a big upset, in reality it was a routine victory for the three-time grand slam winner as she improved her record against Petrova to 8-1.

Sharapova has made steady progress since returning to action in May after nine months on the sidel...

Due to my summer holiday I haven't been able to update you guys on the Los Angelos tournament. Maria reached the semi finals, which ofcourse is a great achievement!
Today the new rankings were released and Maria is now #49 with 1170 points. By reaching the semi's in LA she gained 200 points and 12 spots up the rankings. Maria is currently on spot #34 on the Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships rankings.
The next tournament Maria will attend is the Rogers Cup, in Toronto, starting next mo...

American Venus Williams crushed Russia's Maria Sharapova 6-2 6-2, while her younger sister Serena was upset by Australia's Samantha Stosur in the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic on Saturday.

Seven-time grand slam champion Venus had not beaten Sharapova in three previous matches on hard courts, but on Saturday she was the more aggressive and accurate in the hard-hitting rallies while destroying the Russian's second serves.

Sharapova only hit 11 winners and committed 30 forced errors.

"She's a tremendous athlete and was probably 10 steps faster to the ball than I was," said Sharapova, who was playing her fifth tournament since returning from shoulder surgery.

"I should have taken the opportunities I had. That's something that comes along with playing and right now, it's not on autopilot for me."

aria is through to the quarters at the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford as she defeated #5 seed Nadia Petrova of Russia.  Maria won 6-1 6-2 in 1 hour and 1 minute.

Maria put on a dominating display in the 1st set as she has wrapped it up 6-1 in 26 minutes.   Maria was serving well as she won every point on 1st serve.

The 2nd set was a similar story to the 1st set as Maria took the set 6-2 in 35 minutes.  In the last game when Maria was serving for the match, she didn't drop a point.