Maria Sharapova defeats Agnieszka Radwanska
Bank of the West Classic in its 40th year
7/31/2010
Agnieszka Radwanska began playing at age 4, when her father introduced her to the sport. Her birthplace was in Krakow, Poland where she now
resides. She grew up playing at a club in Gronau, Germany. Agnieszka is now 21 years of age. She speaks both Polish and English. She ranks 11 in the world-turned pro in April of 2005. Now here at Bank of the West Classic at Stanford University (in its 40th year) on a Saturday July 31, 2010 she went to-to-to with one of the best in the world, Maria Sharapova born in Russia but now resides in Florida USA, is 23 yrs old who ranks 15 and turned pro April of 2001.
Nevertheless, Maria on her comeback from an injury has seemed to overwhelm many highly ranked opponents. Maria did it again last night. She had to reach down deep with this match to overcome her 11th ranked adversary Agnieszka 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Maria was placed on Bank of the West Classic tourney chart as number 5 overall, as Agnieszka was placed 3rd. Maria at this point of the tournament has been hot hot hot, It has not been an easy task for Maria thus far for her victories. Maria talked about her first serve rough start, “I just fell over the matt a little while. I made way too many errors. It wasn’t like she was making me do something wrong. I needed to cut down on, and little by little I did,” said Maria.
Maria was asked if there
was a certain point of the match that she was tired due to certain
errors, although she did come through strong. “No”, said Maria, “there’s no
point or that point of me being tired, not even if it takes 10 balls
starting a rally. You can’t be making excusing by huffing and puffing and
saying it’s too tuff.” This Sunday Azarenka, Sharapova to Play for 2010 Bank
of the West Classic Singles Title. Sunday's singles final is set for 12
p.m., with the doubles championship to follow.
Bank of the West Classic as mentioned above story is in its 40th year of women tennis and has been very successful thus far. Back in the 70’s, women tennis was somewhat of laughter to many and especially many men players. It was tough for women tennis players back then such as Billie Jean King who played in the 70’s, was a champion American tennis player winning a total of 39 grand slam titles in an illustrious career. Billy helped orchestrate and fought for women’s rights for tennis. ”We struggled in ’71; we lost 300, 000 that year. "We were very excited and scarred that year,” said Billy. Billy continued to say, “We used to tell people in the 70’s there will be millions,” as she referred to the future. “Back then that was our vision to be successful, and now kids are doing it!” However, in 1973, when Billy and company had “Battle of the Sexes” tennis matches, that is when the women tourney exploded.
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