
Former wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova was put out of Wimbledon today, the victim of a stunning straight-sets upset by 154th-ranked Alla Kudryavtseva in the second round.
Maria, the 2004 champion, lost 6-2, 6-4 to her fellow Russian amid a wave of double faults and ugly unforced errors. It was the third-seeded Sharapova’s earliest exit from a Grand Slam event since her first full season on the circuit in 2003. Since her breakthrough at Wimbledon in 2004, Sharapova has won the 2006 U.S. Open and 2008 Australian Open.
Kudryavtseva, 20, has never won a WTA Tour title. She lost in the first round at Wimbledon to eventual champion Venus Williams last year. She has been ranked as high as No. 59 last year. “She had nothing to lose,” Maria said. “She went for her shots. I can’t be really happy about anything today.”
Kudryavtseva even rubbed it in by trashing the fashion icon’s widely publicized Wimbledon ensemble of tuxedo-style blouse & shorts. “I don’t like her outfit,” said Kudryavtseva, who was born in Moscow but, like Sharapova, now lives in Florida. “It was one of the motivations to beat her.”
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