UAEのドバイで行われているドバイ・テニスチャンピオンシップに出場しているマリア・シャラポワは
準決勝のリンジー・ダベンポートとの対戦にも勝って決勝進出を決めた。
スコアは3-6, 6-1, 6-3の逆転勝ちだった。
シャラポワのコメント
「今日は1日の間にまったく違うタイプの2人の選手との対戦になったので
準決勝はアジャストするのに少し時間が必要だった。
ジュスティンとの対戦はすごく楽しみ。全豪オープンの準決勝でもすごくいい試合ができたから。」
ダベンポートのコメント
「第1セットはすごくいいプレイができたのに、第2セットは何が起こったのか自分でもわからない。
カリフォルニアではいつもいい成績が残せるので、2週間後のインディアンウェルスの大会を楽しみにしている。」
大会は前日が雨天で1試合も消化できなかったため、この準決勝はマルティナ・ヒンギスとの準々決勝と同じ日に行われた。
ちなみにまだ女子高生でもあるシャラポワはお昼頃のヒンギスとの対戦の後、いったんホテルに戻って化学の勉強をし、その後大会会場で夜の準決勝を戦ったそうだ。
そして強行日程のため、準決勝が終わったのはほとんど日付が変わるころだったとか。
もう1試合の準決勝は、ジュスティン・エナン＝アーデンが6-2, 7-5でスベトラーナ・クズネツォワを破った。
この結果、決勝はシャラポワvs.エナン＝アーデンとなった。
シャラポワはエナン＝アーデンには1月の全豪オープン準決勝で敗れるなど、過去の対戦成績は1勝3敗。
なんとか倒して優勝して欲しい！
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シャラポワがモデルになって話題のSports Illustrated 水着特集号
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参考にした英国The Independent紙の記事
Sharapova hands out double lesson
By Paul Newman in Dubai
Published: 25 February 2006
Like all good students, Maria Sharapova knows the importance of fitting in your homework between games. The Russian world No 4 beat Martina Hingis in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open at lunchtime here yesterday, went back to her hotel to study chemistry in the afternoon and returned in the evening to the tennis courts, where she beat Lindsay Davenport to earn a place against Justine Henin-Hardenne in tonight's final.
Rain interruptions had forced the organisers to schedule the quarter-finals and semi-finals on the same day and it was nearly midnight by the time Sharapova had completed her 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Davenport, the defending champion. Davenport had been taken to three sets earlier in the day by another young Russian, Maria Kirilenko, and it was Sharapova who lasted the distance in a hard-hitting contest full of bold winning shots.
Hingis, continuing her comeback after three years out of the game, was unable to repeat her win in Tokyo earlier this month over Sharapova. The way in which the 19-year-old Russian raised her arms in celebration of her 6-3, 6-4 victory showed how much it meant to her. "I was fighting to get my revenge," Sharapova said. "I knew she would fight till the end."
A vociferous crowd was largely on the side of Hingis, who won several thrilling rallies and again displayed the wonderful variety in her game. The 25-year-old Swiss even made a number of successful forays to the net, but paid for a large number of unforced errors and was frequently exposed by Sharapova's booming forehand.
"I wasn't as concentrated as the last time we met, but she played well," Hingis said. "It was just a lack of patience which made me come up short. You can't allow someone like her back into the game. I had so many game points I couldn't take."
The other half of the draw featured Amélie Mauresmo, whose run of three tournament triumphs and 16 unbeaten matches ended when she was beaten 7-6, 6-4 by Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals.
For someone who had played so positively on her way to victories in Melbourne, Paris and Antwerp, it was a curiously subdued display by the Australian Open champion. Mauresmo wasted four set points before Kuznetsova won a 22-minute first-set tie-break 13-11 and squandered a 3-0 lead in the second set.
Kuznetsova was unable to take her form into the next match, losing to Henin-Hardenne. The Belgian, who had beaten Italy's Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6 in the morning, defeated the Russian 6-2, 7-5 despite suffering a stomach ailment and sore shoulder.
Like all good students, Maria Sharapova knows the importance of fitting in your homework between games. The Russian world No 4 beat Martina Hingis in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open at lunchtime here yesterday, went back to her hotel to study chemistry in the afternoon and returned in the evening to the tennis courts, where she beat Lindsay Davenport to earn a place against Justine Henin-Hardenne in tonight's final.
Rain interruptions had forced the organisers to schedule the quarter-finals and semi-finals on the same day and it was nearly midnight by the time Sharapova had completed her 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Davenport, the defending champion. Davenport had been taken to three sets earlier in the day by another young Russian, Maria Kirilenko, and it was Sharapova who lasted the distance in a hard-hitting contest full of bold winning shots.
Hingis, continuing her comeback after three years out of the game, was unable to repeat her win in Tokyo earlier this month over Sharapova. The way in which the 19-year-old Russian raised her arms in celebration of her 6-3, 6-4 victory showed how much it meant to her. "I was fighting to get my revenge," Sharapova said. "I knew she would fight till the end."
A vociferous crowd was largely on the side of Hingis, who won several thrilling rallies and again displayed the wonderful variety in her game. The 25-year-old Swiss even made a number of successful forays to the net, but paid for a large number of unforced errors and was frequently exposed by Sharapova's booming forehand.
"I wasn't as concentrated as the last time we met, but she played well," Hingis said. "It was just a lack of patience which made me come up short. You can't allow someone like her back into the game. I had so many game points I couldn't take."
The other half of the draw featured Amélie Mauresmo, whose run of three tournament triumphs and 16 unbeaten matches ended when she was beaten 7-6, 6-4 by Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals.
For someone who had played so positively on her way to victories in Melbourne, Paris and Antwerp, it was a curiously subdued display by the Australian Open champion. Mauresmo wasted four set points before Kuznetsova won a 22-minute first-set tie-break 13-11 and squandered a 3-0 lead in the second set.
Kuznetsova was unable to take her form into the next match, losing to Henin-Hardenne. The Belgian, who had beaten Italy's Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6 in the morning, defeated the Russian 6-2, 7-5 despite suffering a stomach ailment and sore shoulder.
準決勝のリンジー・ダベンポートとの対戦にも勝って決勝進出を決めた。
スコアは3-6, 6-1, 6-3の逆転勝ちだった。
シャラポワのコメント
「今日は1日の間にまったく違うタイプの2人の選手との対戦になったので
準決勝はアジャストするのに少し時間が必要だった。
ジュスティンとの対戦はすごく楽しみ。全豪オープンの準決勝でもすごくいい試合ができたから。」
ダベンポートのコメント
「第1セットはすごくいいプレイができたのに、第2セットは何が起こったのか自分でもわからない。
カリフォルニアではいつもいい成績が残せるので、2週間後のインディアンウェルスの大会を楽しみにしている。」
大会は前日が雨天で1試合も消化できなかったため、この準決勝はマルティナ・ヒンギスとの準々決勝と同じ日に行われた。
ちなみにまだ女子高生でもあるシャラポワはお昼頃のヒンギスとの対戦の後、いったんホテルに戻って化学の勉強をし、その後大会会場で夜の準決勝を戦ったそうだ。
そして強行日程のため、準決勝が終わったのはほとんど日付が変わるころだったとか。
もう1試合の準決勝は、ジュスティン・エナン＝アーデンが6-2, 7-5でスベトラーナ・クズネツォワを破った。
この結果、決勝はシャラポワvs.エナン＝アーデンとなった。
シャラポワはエナン＝アーデンには1月の全豪オープン準決勝で敗れるなど、過去の対戦成績は1勝3敗。
なんとか倒して優勝して欲しい！
人気blogランキング（テニス）
シャラポワがモデルになって話題のSports Illustrated 水着特集号
---------------------------------------
参考にした英国The Independent紙の記事
Sharapova hands out double lesson
By Paul Newman in Dubai
Published: 25 February 2006
Like all good students, Maria Sharapova knows the importance of fitting in your homework between games. The Russian world No 4 beat Martina Hingis in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open at lunchtime here yesterday, went back to her hotel to study chemistry in the afternoon and returned in the evening to the tennis courts, where she beat Lindsay Davenport to earn a place against Justine Henin-Hardenne in tonight's final.
Rain interruptions had forced the organisers to schedule the quarter-finals and semi-finals on the same day and it was nearly midnight by the time Sharapova had completed her 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Davenport, the defending champion. Davenport had been taken to three sets earlier in the day by another young Russian, Maria Kirilenko, and it was Sharapova who lasted the distance in a hard-hitting contest full of bold winning shots.
Hingis, continuing her comeback after three years out of the game, was unable to repeat her win in Tokyo earlier this month over Sharapova. The way in which the 19-year-old Russian raised her arms in celebration of her 6-3, 6-4 victory showed how much it meant to her. "I was fighting to get my revenge," Sharapova said. "I knew she would fight till the end."
A vociferous crowd was largely on the side of Hingis, who won several thrilling rallies and again displayed the wonderful variety in her game. The 25-year-old Swiss even made a number of successful forays to the net, but paid for a large number of unforced errors and was frequently exposed by Sharapova's booming forehand.
"I wasn't as concentrated as the last time we met, but she played well," Hingis said. "It was just a lack of patience which made me come up short. You can't allow someone like her back into the game. I had so many game points I couldn't take."
The other half of the draw featured Amélie Mauresmo, whose run of three tournament triumphs and 16 unbeaten matches ended when she was beaten 7-6, 6-4 by Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals.
For someone who had played so positively on her way to victories in Melbourne, Paris and Antwerp, it was a curiously subdued display by the Australian Open champion. Mauresmo wasted four set points before Kuznetsova won a 22-minute first-set tie-break 13-11 and squandered a 3-0 lead in the second set.
Kuznetsova was unable to take her form into the next match, losing to Henin-Hardenne. The Belgian, who had beaten Italy's Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6 in the morning, defeated the Russian 6-2, 7-5 despite suffering a stomach ailment and sore shoulder.
Like all good students, Maria Sharapova knows the importance of fitting in your homework between games. The Russian world No 4 beat Martina Hingis in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open at lunchtime here yesterday, went back to her hotel to study chemistry in the afternoon and returned in the evening to the tennis courts, where she beat Lindsay Davenport to earn a place against Justine Henin-Hardenne in tonight's final.
Rain interruptions had forced the organisers to schedule the quarter-finals and semi-finals on the same day and it was nearly midnight by the time Sharapova had completed her 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Davenport, the defending champion. Davenport had been taken to three sets earlier in the day by another young Russian, Maria Kirilenko, and it was Sharapova who lasted the distance in a hard-hitting contest full of bold winning shots.
Hingis, continuing her comeback after three years out of the game, was unable to repeat her win in Tokyo earlier this month over Sharapova. The way in which the 19-year-old Russian raised her arms in celebration of her 6-3, 6-4 victory showed how much it meant to her. "I was fighting to get my revenge," Sharapova said. "I knew she would fight till the end."
A vociferous crowd was largely on the side of Hingis, who won several thrilling rallies and again displayed the wonderful variety in her game. The 25-year-old Swiss even made a number of successful forays to the net, but paid for a large number of unforced errors and was frequently exposed by Sharapova's booming forehand.
"I wasn't as concentrated as the last time we met, but she played well," Hingis said. "It was just a lack of patience which made me come up short. You can't allow someone like her back into the game. I had so many game points I couldn't take."
The other half of the draw featured Amélie Mauresmo, whose run of three tournament triumphs and 16 unbeaten matches ended when she was beaten 7-6, 6-4 by Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals.
For someone who had played so positively on her way to victories in Melbourne, Paris and Antwerp, it was a curiously subdued display by the Australian Open champion. Mauresmo wasted four set points before Kuznetsova won a 22-minute first-set tie-break 13-11 and squandered a 3-0 lead in the second set.
Kuznetsova was unable to take her form into the next match, losing to Henin-Hardenne. The Belgian, who had beaten Italy's Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6 in the morning, defeated the Russian 6-2, 7-5 despite suffering a stomach ailment and sore shoulder.
よかったです。
ダベンポートにも勝って、マーシャ今回は
気合いが入ってますね。
少し分が悪いエナン＝アーデンとの決勝ですが、
今回はやってくれそうな気がします。
エナン＝アーデンに勝ったら、勢いづきそうですね。
がんばれ！マーシャ。