Maria Sharapova advances to Wimbledon semifinals

Maria Sharapova looked like a champion under the Centre Court roof at Wimbledon, advancing to the semifinals at the All England Club for the first time since 2006 with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Dominika Cibulkova on Tuesday.


Sharapova, the only Wimbledon champion remaining in the women's draw after the Williams sisters were eliminated a day earlier, won eight straight games to win the first set and take control of the second. The fifth-seeded Russian has not lost a set at this year's tournament, and she was nowhere near losing one Tuesday. "It's been a few years since I got past the fourth round, and now I'm in the semifinals," said Sharapova, who won the tournament in 2004 and also reached the semifinals in '05. "So this a great chance for me to take it a step further."


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Maria Sharapova Beats Peng Shuai

Maria Sharapova has advanced to the Wimbledon quarterfinals by beating Peng Shuai of China 6-4, 6-2.



The fifth-seeded Russian, who won the 2004 title at the All England Club, broke for the first time to take a 5-4 lead in the first set Monday. From that break, she won seven straight games to take control.

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Maria Sharapova storms into last 16 at Wimbledon 2011

Maria Sharapova advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon by defeating Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-3.



The fifth-seeded Russian won the title at the All England Club in 2004, but last reached the semifinals in 2006.

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Maria Sharapova stops 17-year-old Robson at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova overcame Briton Laura Robson and a partisan crowd on Number One court to reach the Wimbledon third round on Friday.



The Russian former champion won 7-6 6-3 but the 17-year-old Robson, world number 254, delighted the home fans by roaring into a 4-1 lead in the first set. Fifth seed Sharapova grew increasingly tetchy as the crowd sensed a huge upset but she fought back to force a tiebreak which she won 7-4.

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Maria Sharapova wins all-Russian match at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova moved into the second round at Wimbledon on Tuesday, winning an all-Russian match against Anna Chakvetadze 6-2, 6-1.


The No. 52-ranked Chakvetadze managed to break once in the second set but was otherwise outclassed by her sixth-seeded opponent in just over an hour.

Sharapova, who won the tournament in 2004 but hasn't gone beyond the fourth round since 2006, is the only former champion in the women's tournament other than Venus and Serena Williams.

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Maria Sharapova: if I could win another Grand Slam ...

Maria Sharapova says a 2011 Wimbledon win would be biggest Grand Slam of her career. After winning Wimbledon in 2004 with an unlikely victory over Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova has won only two other Grand Slam events, and none since her 2008 shoulder surgery.



"If I could win another Grand Slam," Sharapova said Saturday, "it would mean more than the previous ones that I have, because of the injury and everything.

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Maria Sharapova in new Nike ads

Maria Sharapova and French Open 2011 champion Li Na has been started in a new advertising manufacture of sports clothing and footwear Nike.


Sharapova has first singed with Nike in 1999, where in early 2010 she had re-signed an eight year sponsorship contract with the Nike Company, which it was expected nearly 70 million dollars. Sharapova has become the lost highly paid athletes in the world by the Magazine Forbes from July 1st to June of 2010, where she earned around 24.5 million.


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Maria Sharapova reaches French Open 2011 quarterfinals

Maria Sharapova stormed into the semi-finals of the French Open with a 6-0 6-3 drubbing of Andrea Petkovic.




Sharapova, the Russian seventh seed, rallied from 0-40 down to break in the first game and breezed through the opening set in 32 minutes. Germany's Petkovic, the 15th seed, broke twice in the second set but Sharapova wrapped up an emphatic win. Sharapova will meet Li Na in the last four after the Chinese beat fourth seed Victoria Azarenka 7-5 6-2. Sharapova is looking to complete a career Grand Slam, having won the other three major tournaments once apiece.


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