
Maria Sharapova advanced to the Australian Open semifinals for the fourth straight year with a convincing 6-4, 6-0 win Tuesday over top-ranked Justine Henin, snapping the Belgian’s 32-match winning streak. “Even though I beat Justine, it’s definitely not over,” Sharapova said. “I still have a lot of business to take care of.”
Sharapova won in 1 hour, 38 minutes, inflicting the first 6-0 set on Henin since 2002.
“I really felt like I was in a bubble,” Sharapova said. “I think it was one of the most consistent matches where I did all the things I wanted to do, and I did them correctly from the beginning to the end … and just played the way I can play.”
Henin, who struggled with her serve and was broken five times, said she had a minor concern over a lingering knee injury but called the loss an inevitability. “It’s very hard to be at your best level all the time,” she said. “I’ll have to think about that and build again for the future.”
In the semifinals, Maria will face Jelena Jankovic, who eliminated defending champion Serena Williams on Tuesday. Venus Williams followed her sister out of the Open in the quarterfinals, losing 7-6 (3), 6-4 to fourth-seeded Ana Ivanovic today.
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2 Responses to 'Maria advances to the semis'
On January 26th, 2008 at 7:47 pm abhishek says:
sheeeeeeeeee is sex yin her bikini as welll as her gameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
On December 4th, 2008 at 2:51 am maria says:
hey ms maria lets take yuor performance going down ,just upgrde that. and more power t u
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