The elite tennis player Maria Sharapova got over a great opponent and a score deficit to overcome a big loss in the first round of the U.S. Open.
Maria Sharapova was the 2006 champion at the Flushing Meadows edition, she played very consistent and overwealming after the first set with scores of 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 achieving the victory against the Australian Jarmila Groth ranked 60th.
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Jarmila Groth hit fourteen double faults including the final point of the 2nd set. Groth was very aggressive and took risks that sometimes paid off and sometimes didn’t. Jarmila hit twenty four winners to nineteen for Maria Sharapova, and concluded with 48 mistakes against Sharapova’s 17 errors.
Maria Sharapova has never been eliminated in the first round in any of the seven U.S Open she has played. In the other hand she hasn’t been able to pass from the third round after winning the championship in 2006.
Player Profile
Name: Maria Sharapova
Country: Russia
Residence: Bradenton, Florida, USA
Date of birth: April 19, 1987
Age: 23
Place of birth: Nyagan, Soviet Union
Height: 1.88 m
Turned pro: April 19, 2001
Plays: Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money: US$13,621,022
Career record: 356 – 85 (81.0%)
Career titles: 22 WTA
Highest ranking: No. 1 (August 22, 2005)
Current ranking : No. 17 (August 30, 2010)