Dartagnan, Please. This is supposed to be a forum for people who can make intelligent contributions...'Maria Sharapova should be number one. It is her real place.' Really, that is the dumbest thing I've ever read on here. She got to Number One by accident all three times and was never able to defend the position....EVER, so dont talk rubbish.

Here we go again...still making excuses 3 years after she returned to Tennis . (season 2009, 2010, and now 11). Her shoulder is fine...she keeps telling everybody.
But, I've said all along, you can never believe a word she says anyway. She was saying it was fine all through 2007 and 8, right up to the moment of the injury, then she admitted it had been giving her pain day and night for two years. Point is, it's not good for publicity to admit she is still injured or afraid to use it to it's full potential...Her Sponsors might start worrying about their investment and pull out. So, we have to put up with mediocre tennis from her just so she can keep them happy.
She will never return to the form that she had in 2004/5 and 6. Back then she was hungry and greedy for success and money. She got both.

Twice, so far this year, she has said at interviews that she doesn't have to prove anything anymore...she's been Number One and has won 3 Grand Slams. To that, I can only say...She does have something to prove....namely...That she can do it AGAIN.

JJ thrashed the arse off American Coco Vandeweghe. She said all she had to do was wait for Coco to return the ball then hammer it by her.
Coco Said: "I'm definitely a little bit more accustomed to getting more free points off my serve." The 19-year-old said. "Some of the shots that she'd get back, sometimes I thought: 'Hey, that's a winner.'

Hehehehehe. Doesn't that sound familiar? Dont we know another player who thinks like that?

Expected a "Russian match" but it was a "Masha Match". One of her best if indeed Dinara went all the way...?

Masha is indeed a "possible" winner here!!