Serena Williams won against Maria Kirilenko 6-2 3-6 6-2, so  in the Friday's quarter-final Maria Sharapova will play Serena Williams.

To my surprise, earlier today Victoria Azarenka lost to Marina Erakovic 6-4 5-7 2-6.

So let's wait for the tomorrow's match schedule!! GO MARIA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should be a great match. Maria needs to stay focussed and keep her first serves in. She cannot lax with this one who serves aces to overpower her opponents. Maria has the advantage of a day's rest. Serena just played a 3 setter. I didn't watch her play last night. What is her physical health like? Can she breathe in that humdity?

I might have to wake up early to watch this one.

Good Luck, Maria. I know you always try so hard. Keep it up.

You heard it here first:

Maria Sharapova has hired Vladimir Voltchkov as her full-time hitting partner. Voltchkov worked with Sharapova during the grass court season and is with her at Stanford, along with her coach, Thomas Hogstedt. Sharapova also worked with hitting partner and part-time ATP player Cecil Mamitt of Los Angeles this year. 

"It was more of a feeling," Sharapova told TENNIS.com said of her decision to go with the Belarusian, who reached the 2000 Wimbledon semifinal before falling to Pete Sampras. "Cecil worked with me tremendously on clay — there isn’t a ball he couldn’t run down, I was like, ‘When am I going to hit a winner?’ But at Fed Cup earlier in the year I hit with Voltchkov a few times and I asked him if there was a time during the year we could work together and it worked during the grass season. I like his ball and the way he hits shots and he can actually make me better."

Sharapova, who attempted a co-coaching relationship between her former coach Michael Joyce and her new coach Hogstedt at the end of last year and at the start of the this year that did not work out, cautioned that Voltchkov would not be in a similar leadership position as Hogstedt.

"It’s pretty tough to have two cooks in the kitchen. He’s great cause he willing to travel full time – it’s a sick Russian mentality, you just want to stay home I’m not sure why, we are crazy," she said with a laugh. "There are also some weeks when Thomas can’t come because he has to be with his family and then I can have [Voltchkov] for a few weeks. I’m excited about it."

http://tennis.com/articl...leid=13480&zoneid=25 

Introduction of the "t" in the transliteration of the name is an obvious device to deflect searches. The name under which he should be searched in VOLCHKOV. I posted during Wimbly a month ago:

to be honest I hardly believe they are "friends" off the court. Competitors yes, and they have respect for each other, but friends, no.

You guys make me laugh. Serena has an ego as big as Maria's bank balance, and no other players like her off court. She is a loudmouth, she's rude, got a dirty mouth and is a racist. Maria simple thinks she is the most beautiful person in the world to ever grace the tennis courts and nobody likes her snooty attitude, or her bad taste in fashion...and she has no tits. The pair of them were made for each other... They got nobody else.

I think I remember Maria talking about how Wozniacki is friends with lots of girls on tour. She said that since they're competing with eachother that it would be tough to be friends with them (except Kiri I guess). Its a lifestyle choice, not that Maria is hated. But I agree what you said about Serena.

A really disaster.

I thinks she lost confidence now but at least she knows now where she is

and that she has to work harder to improve ( a lot ).