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Tuesday August 18, 2009

Maria Sharapova wins her first match at the Rogers Cup in Toronto over Nadia Petrova

The last time Maria Sharapova was at the Rogers Cup it was in Montreal last year and also her last match for long time.

Thats where she found her injurie was very serous and has to stop playing. She has been back for a few months now and said in her post intereview she was very happy to back and that her play was a work in progress.

Maria played Nadia twice since she has been back, lost the first match and won the last match in Stanford 6-1, 6-2.

Now she has won again in 2 sets 6-3, 6-4 which brings her winning record to 7-1 against Nadia.

Maria will now face Sybille Bammer in her next roundl

Other Results for Monday, August 17, 2009

Singles - First Round
Maria Sharapova (RUS) d. (10) Nadia Petrova (RUS) 63 64
Alona Bondarenko (UKR) d. (13) Marion Bartoli (FRA) 64 63
(14) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) 63 63
Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d. (15) Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) 62 36 61
Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. (Q) Heidi El Tabakh (CAN) 76(2) 76(4)
Patty Schnyder (SUI) d. Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 62 61
Sybille Bammer (AUT) d. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 36 64 62
Agnes Szavay (HUN) d. (WC) Valérie Tétreault (CAN) 62 64
Aravane Rezai (FRA) d. Alizé Cornet (FRA) 64 75
Ai Sugiyama (JPN) d. Iveta Benesova (CZE) 63 64
(Q) Roberta Vinci (ITA) d. (WC) Stéphanie Dubois (CAN) 61 62
(Q) Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) d. (Q) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 76(4) 62

Highlights: A.Radwanska vs. Suárez Navarro
Highlights: Schiavone vs. Mauresmo

Doubles - First Round
(5) Hsieh/Peng (TPE/CHN) d. Azarenka/Zvonareva (BLR/RUS) 46 60 106
Senoglu/Shvedova (TUR/KAZ) d. Chuang/Pelletier (TPE/CAN) 64 64
Kirilenko/Vesnina (RUS/RUS) d. (WC) Dubois/Marino (CAN/CAN) 62 67(5) 106
Amanmuradova/Kudryavtseva (UZB/RUS) d. Koryttseva/Poutchek (UKR/BLR) 76(10) 62
(WC) Kuznetsova/Mauresmo (RUS/FRA) d. Husarova/Parra Santonja (SVK/ESP) 60 64

Order of Play for Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Stadium (from 11.00hrs)
1. Magdalena Rybarikova vs. Ana Ivanovic
2. Venus Williams vs. Kateryna Bondarenko (NB 13.00hrs)
3. Alisa Kleybanova vs. Aleksandra Wozniak
4. Elena Baltacha vs. Kim Clijsters (NB 19.30hrs)
5. Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Samantha Stosur

Grandstand (from 11.00hrs)
1. Shahar Peer vs. Monica Niculescu
2. Yaroslava Shvedova vs. Daniela Hantuchova
3. Maria Kirilenko vs. Flavia Pennetta
4. Victoria Azarenka vs. Peng Shuai
5. Jans/Rosolska vs. Fichman/Wozniak

Court 1 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Lucie Safarova vs. Kaia Kanepi
2. Sara Errani vs. Dominika Cibulkova
3. Llagostera Vives/Martínez Sánchez vs. King/Niculescu (after suitable rest)
4. Yan/Zheng vs. A.Radwanska/Wozniacki

Court 3 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Alla Kudryavtseva vs. Julie Coin
2. Virginie Razzano vs. Ekaterina Makarova
3. Dushevina/Rodionova vs. Groenefeld/Schnyder
4. Mattek-Sands/Petrova vs. Kleybanova/Makarova (after suitable rest)

Court 4 (from 12.30hrs)
1. Elena Vesnina vs. Zheng Jie

ROGERS CUP
Toronto-CAN
August 17-23, 2009
$2,000,000/Premier
Hard/Outdoors

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