Sharapova out, Mauresmo has room to breathe
Maria Sharapova hadn’t played since March. Now she won’t play until almost June. The world’s 2nd ranked player called it quits in Rome after a nagging shoulder injury. Furthermore, Justine Henin didn’t make the trip either. So what does that entail for the women’s draw in Italy?
It means Amelie Mauresmo is the top seed and would want nothing more than to take some Roman clay home with her.
But first she has to make it out of Berlin. Yesterday Mauresmo beat Yan Zi 6-3, 6-3. So now she’s in the third round. Despite the victory, Mauresmo looked a bit rusty.
Amelie confessed, “She had 10 break chances against me in the first set, but I won the key points. I wasn’t frustrated, I knew that I wasn’t able to play completely the way I wanted yet.”
That’s understandable being that this match was her first since undergoing Appendectomy surgery in March. And it won’t get easier in Berlin before it’s all said and done. Henin, Hingis, and Jelena Jankovic are still swinging their rackets in Germany. So before number 3 can even breathe a sigh of relief about Rome, she has to scrub off the rust and tighten up the catgut. She’s in for the long haul.
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