Maria Sharapova's eagerly-awaited return to the Australian Open ended swiftly on Monday when she was sensationally knocked out of the first grand slam of 2010 just hours after it began.
Maria Sharapova beat Marion Bartoli 6-1, 6-2 to book a place in the Los Angeles Open quarter-finals.
Maria Sharapova has lost just two games in her first two matches but the 20-year-old Russian is taking nothing for granted in her drive to defend her U.S. Open title.
Maria Sharapova recovered from a second-set wobble to dispatch third seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday and set up a Madrid Open final clash against rising talent Simona Halep.
Images from Day Seven of the US Open tennis tournament being played in New York.
Should the 30-year-old three-time Rome champion, ranked 211 in the world, reach the semi-finals, she would almost certainly earn an automatic Wimbledon main draw slot ahead of the May 22 rankings cut-off date.
Sharapova beat Lindsay Davenport while the defending champion beat Amelie Mauresmo in the women's singles semi-finals at Wimbledon.
Serena Williams outplayed Maria Sharapova to claim the 2015 Australian Open championship in straight sets on Saturday.
Maria Sharapova's hopes of a second successive WTA Tour title ended when she was shocked by fellow Russian Elena Dementieva in the Los Angeles Open semi-finals.
Former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova started her grasscourt season in convincing fashion with a 6-4, 6-2 first-round win over Canada's Stephanie Dubois in the Edgbaston Classic in Birmingham on Monday.
Maria Sharapova saved a match point to beat Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) in the Italian Open final on Sunday after a two-hour rain break effectively turned the match into a tiebreak shootout.
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Sharapova's quarter-final defeat by Williams at the 2016 Australian Open was the last competitive match the Russian played for 15 months after she received a doping ban while American Williams was on a maternity break for most of 2017.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova won her second Pan Pacific Open title after Jelena Jankovic retired with a wrist injury in Saturday's final. It was Sharapova's first title since shoulder surgery last October and the 20th of her career. Her last tournament win came at Amelia Island in April 2008.
The blonde Sharapova -- billed the new Anna Kournikova -- was one of eight women given berths in the main draw of the grasscourt Grand Slam.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova battled back from a torrid start against French teenager Caroline Garcia to book her place in the French Open third round with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 victory on Thursday.
Russian fourth seed Elena Dementieva picked up her third title of the year and denied compatriot Maria Sharapova a comeback win with a 6-4, 6-3 victory in the final of the Toronto Cup Sunday.
Photos of the French Open women's final game between Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep
The Russian tennis star, Maria Sharapova, who recently met Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon at an award function, easily towered over the actor during the event.
Still shaking off the rust from a 15-month doping ban and a string of nagging injuries, the 30-year-old Sharapova needed all her skill, determination and two hours and 44 minutes to snatch victory in front of a packed Arthur Ashe stadium.
'Maria will look at it and see no one dominant. Serena Williams is the only player in the past who has been like a thorn in her side, but she feels mentally superior to most of the other and she feels she can win against them all'
The Russian can qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon by reaching the semi-final of either the Madrid or Rome tournaments.
Maria Sharapova continued her build-up for Wimbledon by winning back-to-back matches to reach the quarter-finals of the Edgbaston Classic on Thursday.
Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova has recovered from the illness that forced her to pull out of the Paris Open.
The Wimbledon champion crushed China's Li Na 6-0, 6-2 to become the fifth Russian woman to reach the fourth round.
Maria Sharapova marched into the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Open after crushing Australian Samantha Stosur 6-3, 6-2 on Friday to set up a last four meeting with fellow-Russian Vera Zvonareva.
Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova eased past Luxembourg's Anne Kremer 6-0 6-2 to reach the final.
Favourite Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova will meet in the women's singles final at Wimbledon. The former stormed back after a shaky start to beat Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-3 while eighth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova showed the greater will, ambition and control of her nerves to overcome Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.
Maria Sharapova powered into the Wimbledon semi-finals with an awesome display every bit as spectacular as the thunder claps that rattled the All England Club on Tuesday. The Russian fifth seed, the stand-out name in an unfamiliar looking last eight, roared to a 6-1, 6-1 win over shell-shocked Dominika Cibulkova under Centre Court's roof and now only wildcard Sabine Lisicki stands between Sharapova and her first final here since she won the tournament in 2004.
Defending champion Li Na was shown the door while Maria Sharapova remained on course for a maiden title after the fourth round of the French Open on Monday.
Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is putting her time away from tennis to good use.
'I definitely feel the respect from the athletes. Certainly when I play against them, in terms of the level they play with'
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