Maria Sharapova, fresh off her upset of Nadia Petrova in Round 2, continued her push through the French Open on Friday as she overcame a slow start to knock off Yaroslava Shvedova 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 and advance to Round 4 at Roland Garros, keeping her in line for a career Grand Slam.
By all accounts it appeared as if Sharapova was outplayed as the Russian committed 51 unforced errors compared to 33 for Shvedova, had 11 double-faults compared to 4 for Shvedova and had her serve broken four times out of seven opportunities. Despite all of that Sharapova scored the big points when she needed them to get one step closer to her first French Open singles title. She will next face Li Na of China tonight and her path to the semi-finals looks bright after Venus Williams exited the tournament.
Sharapova has won three Grand Slam singles titles in her career with her first coming at Wimbledon in 2004. Her next title came at the U.S. Open in 2006 and in 2008 she won the Australian Open, leaving only the French Open as the only Grand Slam event she hasn’t won. Her best finish at Roland Garros was a semifinals appearance in 2007.
In the men's all top seeds are stil in except Novak Djokovic. -Sigh- Sad.
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