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Posted at 3:34 am June 25, 2009 admin

Maria Sharapova defeated at the Wimbledon 2009

The biggest upset of the Wimbledon 2009 has been produced Wednesday. Russian sensation Maria Sharapova has found herself out of the tournament in a premature stage. Fans watch live Wimbledon online could see today how Masha lost in 3 sets against Gisela Dulko.

Sharapova started the game as she used us too, after returning from the important shoulder injury. She lost the first set 2-6 but managed to fight back in the second and claim it for 6-3. The 3rd set was decide by a single break of serve and Maria had to leave the tournament.

Wimbledon tennis fan know that this is the first big upset of the season. Many considered Sharapova one of the top favorites, after the Williams sisters, of winning the 2009 Ladies’ Singles title.

The Gentlemen’s events haven’t produced any important upsets so far, but those have been completed only 3 day.

The Russian former Wimbledon winner (2004) and former World Nr.1 couldn’t face today’s pressure and will have to start preparations for the next Grand Slam, which is due in almost 2 months!” coarse fishing tackle

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Posted at 6:59 am April 7, 2009 admin

Sania-Chuang stun 2nd seeds

India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Chuang Chia-Jung beat second seeds Anabel Garrigues and Virginia Pascual.

They defeated them 6-3 7-6(4) and sailed into the women’s double semifinal of the USD 4.5 million Sony Ericsson Open.

On a day of upsets, Sania and Chuang made their presence felt by pulling the rug from under the feet of their seeded opponent whose last ditch effort for a fightback wilted in tie-breaks with the Indo-Taiwan pair seeing it through.

Sania and Chuang’s semifinal opponents will be winner of the remaining quarterfinal match to be played between third-seeded Kveta Peschke and Lisa Raymond and Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.

Sania and Chuang seemed to have struck the perfect chord and they had earlier stunned eighth seeds Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta in a gruelling three-setter in their previous encounter.

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