Victoria Azarenka Vs Maria Sharapova - 2012- Australian Open - Final
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJhoPlKlY0
WHY DID MASHA LOSE THIS MATCH?
Let's watch the important parts of the match:
From this match we can see that Vika controlled all the balls and sets. She made Masha to run a lot after her balls. She imposed her game to Masha.
Even if Masha plays a good tennis, it is a good lesson for Masha, she should improve her tennis with the help of her team and coach. Intelligent work and physical conditions need to be increased !!!! Errors should be corrected. There is no other solution. For example we have to answer to this question: Why did Vika control most of the balls in this match?
Azarenka has a french coach Sam Sumyk a Breton (from north of France), the one who trained Zvonareva before.
But since she decided to take up with coach Sam Sumyk (who used to work with Vera Zvonareva) at the end of 2009, she began to progress. Half way through 2010, her management team at Lagardère - which includes agent John Tobias, her manager, and the former American player Meilen Tu (who is married to Sumyk - convinced her that it was time to being so mistrustful of outsiders and to let her vibrant off court personality flourish. She was no longer as standoffish, and began to engage the media and other members of the tennis industry. Right around the same time, she began to put the pieces together in her game.
"I think with my team, my agent, really helped me to just open up a little," Azarenka said. "Because some people judge you by how you are on the court. Some people judge you by a certain thing you do, which obviously can be a mistake sometimes. I'm a different person when I'm off the court. It just helped me to figure out that it's important to be yourself. That's the most important thing. You don't try to pretend that you are somebody who you're not. I'm always looking to be honest, to know what I feel, because there is no point to really hide that. If you're open, if you can admit your feelings, you can admit what you've done wrong, what you did right, it's easier to move on."
Move on she did and with Sumyk teaching her to be more self reliant on court, her results picked up. She committed more to off court fitness, became quicker and was able to last through long three setters. Last spring, after her grandmother gave her pep talk, she won Miami, Marbella, reached her first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon and finished the year at a career high No. 3 in the world.
Any defeat is a lesson for other matches. 
http://www.usta.com/Pro-...s_changing_of_the_guard/
"I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi." said Sharapova Maria.
