Monday, 20 April 2009
Sharapova tounament schedule 2009
| Scheduled Tournaments | ||
| DATE | TOURNAMENT | LOCATION |
| Feb. 16 - 22 | WTA Dubai Tennis Championship | Dubai, UAE |
| Feb. 23 - Mar. 1 | WTA Abierto Mexicano TELCEL presentado por HSBC | Acapulco, Mexico |
| Mar. 2 - 8 | WTA Monterrey Open | Monterrey, Mexico |
| Mar. 11 - 24 | WTA Indian Wells | Indian Wells, California, USA |
| Mar. 25 - Apr. 5 | WTA Sony Ericsson Open, Miami Florida, USA | Miami, Florida, USA |
| Apr. 6 - 12 | WTA MPS Group Championships | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA |
| Apr. 6 - 12 | WTA Andalucia Tennis Experience | Marbella, Spain |
| Apr. 13 - 19 | WTA Tour Family Circle Cup | Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| Apr. 13 - 19 | WTA Barcelona KIA | Barcelona, Spain |
| Apr. 27 - May. 3 | WTA Grand Prix S.A.R La Princesse Lalla Meryem | Fes, Morocco |
| Apr. 27 - May. 3 | WTA Tour Porsche Tennis Grand Prix | Stuttgart, Germany |
| May. 4 - 10 | >WTA Internazionali d'Italia | Rome, Italy |
| May. 4 - 10 | WTA Estoril Open | Estoril, Portugal |
| May. 9 - 17 | WTA Madrid Open | Madrid, Spain |
| May. 18 - 24 | WTA Warsaw Open | Warsaw, Poland |
| May. 18 - 24 | WTA Qatar Total German Open | Berlin, Germany |
| May. 18 - 24 | WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg | Strasbourg, France |
| May. 25 - Jun. 7 | French Open | Roland Garros, Paris, France |
| Jun. 8 - 14 | WTA AEGON International | Birmingham, England |
| Jun. 15 - 23 | WTA AEGON International | Eastbourne, England |
| Jun. 22 - Jul. 5 | All England Lawn Tennis Championships | Wimbledon, England |
| Jul. 6 - 12 | >WTA Gaz de France Grand Prix | Budapest, Hungary |
| Jul. 6 - 12 | WTA Tour Nordea Nordic Light Open | Bastad, Sweden |
| Jul. 13 - 19 | WTA ECM Prague Open | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Jul. 13 - 19 | WTA Tour Internazionali Femminili di Palermo | Palermo, Italy |
| Jul. 20 - 26 | WTA Gastein Ladies | Bad Gastien, Austria |
| Jul. 20 - 26 | WTA Banka Koper Slovenia Open | Portoroz, Slovenia |
| Jul. 27 - Aug. 2 | WTA Tour Bank of the West Classic | Stanford, Connecticut, USA |
| Jul. 27 - Aug. 2 | WTA Istanbul Cup | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Aug. 3 - 9 | WTA East West Bank Classic presented by Herbalife | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Aug. 10 - 16 | WTA Tour Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open | Cinncinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Aug. 17 - 23 | WTA Rogers Cup | Toronto, Canada |
| Aug. 24 - 30 | WTA Pilot Pen Tennis presented by Schick | New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Aug. 31 - Sep. 13 | US Open | Flushing Meadows, New York, USA |
| Sep. 14 - 20 | WTA Tour Bell Challenge | Quebec City, Canada |
| Sep. 14 - 20 | WTA Guangzhou Women's Open 2009 | Guangzhou, China |
| Sep. 21 - 27 | WTA Tour Hansol Korea Open | Seoul, Korea |
| Sep. 21 - 27 | WTA Tour Tashkent Open | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| Sep. 28 - Oct. 2 | WTA Tour Toray Pan Pacific Open | Tokyo, Japan |
| Oct. 3 - 11 | WTA Tour China Open | Beijing, China |
| Oct. 12 - 18 | WTA Japan Women's Open Tennis | Osaka, Japan |
| Oct. 12 - 18 | WTA Generali Ladies Linz | Linz, Austria |
| Oct. 19 - 25 | >WTA FORTIS Championships | Luxembourg |
| Oct. 19 - 25 | WTA Kremlin Cup | Moscow, Russia |
| Oct. 26 - Nov. 1 | WTA Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships | Doha, Qatar |
| Nov. 2 - 8 | WTA Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions | Bali, Indonesia |
Sharapova Sponsorers
Maria Sharapova's Sponsors- Honda - Following her Wimbledon victory in 2004, Sharapova signed a one-year deal with automobile manufacturer, but the deal was only in Japan.
- Land Rover - In April 2006, Sharapova signed a three-year deal to endorse their vehicles. One source with knowledge of the deal said it was worth approximately U.S. $2 million per year. Sharapova gets a free Land Rover Range Rover Sport in Florida and a chauffeured Land Rover Discovery wherever she wants.
- Motorola - a fee, plus a mobile phone and all her mobile phone bills paid, plus a share of the income of downloads from HelloMoto/Maria. She was criticized at the U.S. Open by some members of the American press for holding a RAZR to her ear at roughly the same time her father was seen talking on a similar phone, as this may have violated the United States Tennis Association’s no sideline-coaching rule.
- Gatorade - energy drink
- Tropicana - orange juice
- TAG Heuer - In December 2004, she signed a deal with Swiss sports watch TAG Heuer to become their latest “sport and glamour” ambassador.
- Nike Inc. - Sharapova has been known to wear somewhat eccentric or revealing outfits from Nike on court, best exemplified by a Breakfast at Tiffany’s-inspired dress at the 2006 U.S. Open, which many admired for its use of sequins and futuristic neckline. She also has been featured in several Nike marketing campaigns, including one advertisement in 2006 that has her walking and riding through the streets of New York City and Arthur Ashe Stadium while everyone around her sings “I Feel Pretty” until she returns a serve with her trademark loud grunt.
- Prince Sports, Inc. - Sharapova has committed to a “lifetime” of sponsoring the only tennis racket brand she’s used as a pro. The endorsement deal that will last until the end of her playing career and beyond.
- Canon Inc. - Sharapova promotes both their office and camera products.
Sharapova’s endorsements have earned her considerably more than she has won in tournament play. In June 2005, Forbes magazine listed her as the highest-paid female athlete in the world, with annual earnings of U.S. $18 million. (CBS, the American television network, reported in August 2006 that the figure is over U.S. $20 million.) In total, she earns over UK £13.4 million per year, over 90 percent of which comes from endorsements. When asked about her income, she said, “It’s never enough. Bring on the money. There’s no limit to how much you can make.” In a later interview, she said, “You know, one of the greatest things about being an athlete and, you know, making money is realising that you can help, you know, help the world, and especially children, who I absolutely love working with.”
Sharapova is visible in and outside of the court for her looks. Sharapova posed in a six-page bikini photoshoot spread in the 2006 issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, annual magazine that debuted on Valentine’s Day, along with 25 scantily-clad supermodels. Sharapova joined the ranks of other athletes who have previously appeared in the publication. In April 2005, Sharapova was listed by People Magazine as among the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world. In 2006, Maxim magazine named Sharapova the hottest athlete in the world for the fourth consecutive year.
Awards And Acheivements
Maria Sharapova's Awards & Achievements
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Sharapova Biography
Blonde, leggy, and beautiful. If those are the only adjectives you use to describe Maria Sharapova, then you’re selling the tennis world’s newest star short. While she may compare favorably to Anna Kournikova on the modeling runway, Maria is most dazzling when she steps on the tennis court. Her serve is overpowering, her ground strokes are penetrating, and her will to win is punishing. Maria officially arrived with her 2004 Wimbledon title—and she’s not likely to leave anytime soon. This is her story…
Maria Sharapova personal details:
Date of Birth
19 April 1987, Nyagan, USSR [now Russia]
Birth Name
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova
Nickname
Masha
The Siberian Siren
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Personal life
On February 14, 2007, Maria Sharapova was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and donated US$100,000 to UNDP Chernobyl-recovery projects. She is arrangement on settled Synonyms back to the area later Wimbledon in 2008.
Playing Style
Maria Sharapova has been labeled a sway baseliner by tennis observers, with brilliant energy, intensity, and angles on her, which are particularly effectual on hard and grass courts. She is not a traditional volleyer, instead preferring to use a powerful hail for net approaches. This also occurs when it comes to attacking a lob as she frequently uses a powerful cascade instead of an above your head slam-dunk Synonyms. And critics also demand that, for her pinnacle, Sharapova has good on-yard slowness. At the 2008 Australian Open, prominent that Sharapova to have settled Antonym her game,
presentation improved pressure group and maneuvering and added the drop shot and the sliced to her repertoire of shots.
Maria Sharapova's game is not as well-fit to clay as it is to fresh surfaces. This is predominantly because she confidence in her gift to move on clay, largely because she appears uncomfortable sliding, and she herself once described as like a "cow on ice" on clay. Her limitations on the inner are reflected in her career results, as she did not win a WTA tour title on clay until April 2008 (despite having won 18 titles on new ) and because the French Open is the only Grand Slam singles title she has not yet won.
Maria Sharapova's first and another serve is generally considered powerful. This means the serve seldom produces an ace or a assistance champion or results in a weak reply from her ally, which Sharapova to take restraint of the assembly immediately. However, a stern assume injury during early 2007 cut-price the effectiveness of Maria Sharapova's serve for quite a few months, as she routinely produced to ten double faults in many of her during this period. She after Antonym new Antonym her facility wave to a more compacted backswing (as conflicting to her traditional stretched out) in an attempt to put less hassle on her take on, but she nevertheless from time to time experienced problems with her serve throughout the rest of the year, most notably 12 double faults in her third-round loss at the 2007 U.S. Open. Her serve appeared to be more inoperative at the 2008 Australian Open, as she just 17 double faults throughout her full title run at the game. However, her plateful problems during the spring of 2008, as she 43 double faults in just four matches at the 200
8 French Open and eight double faults in her subsequent round loss at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. Observers, including Tracy Austin, trust that when Sharapova experiences problems with her serve, she repeatedly loses confidence in the rest of her game, and as findings, produces many voluntary errors and plays generally more timidly Antonym.
Life Story
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian
professional player. At the end of 2006, she was the sphere's highest-paid feminine participant.
M
aria Sharapova's parentage from Homyel, Belarus, to Siberia, Russia, in 1986, after the Chernobyl fissionable pileup. She was born the following year in Nyagan, Russia.
At , Sharapova was brought to the United States by her initiator, Yuri Sharapov, to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Her mother, Yelena, who could not come with them because of visa , followed a few yonks later. Sharapova has
lived in the United States since then but retains her Russian right of abode Synonyms.
In 2002, Sharapova bought a shore home in Manhattan Beach, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, but most of the year near the IMG training facility in Bradenton.
Maria has been as a nation-state baseliner by and fans. She is noted for an poor double- backhand and serves, specifically for the potency and siting of shots.
She is also renowned for having a good. Likewise, critics claim that for her summit, Sharapova has fitting Antonym liveliness on-courtyard. Being an offensive player, Sha
rapova is usually able to daze her opponents or keep them on the run with biting Antonym angles from the baseline.
Maria Sharapova is ambidextrous and left- until she was ten a month of Sundays old, before deciding to play acceptable-handed. Although she just about for all time a fit- forehand and double-handed backhand, she has one of the most accurate double- backhand and is known to occasionally hit left-handed shots as a result of her initial left- training.
In 2007 Maria Sharapova was fixed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme. Maria has won every Grand Slam singles title except the French Open. She believes that best the French Open will be a big contest because her assertive game does not suit clay superficial. She has for no reason won a WTA tour singles title on that shallow (yet).
In the year 2004, Maria $10,000 to victims of the tsunami adversity in Thailand. In January 2005 she donated takings of an auction for the Porsche car she won at the time-consummation WTA Tour Championships of more than $50,000 to victims of the school blockade in Beslan, Russia. On February 14, 2007, Sharapova was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and US$100,000 to UNDP Che
rnobyl-recovery . She is arrangement on settledSynonyms back to the area after Wimbledon in 2008.
On-court tennis outfits
Maria Sharapova is well known for designing her unique outfits, mainly for Grand Slam tournaments. Among her most memorable were her nighttime 2006 US Open dress, motivated Antonym by Audrey Hepburn's look from Breakfast at Tiffany's, her swan dazzling Antonym silver dress during the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and her 2007 US Open nightly dress, which was red and sequined with over 600 Swarovski crystals.
For the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she wore a pair of with a tra
nslucent vest top with a tuxedo type front. The outfit also came with a blazer. She said that the suit was outstanding by haberdashery and was planned to be classy and apposite for Wimbledon.
Record against other top players
As of May 19, 2008, Sharapova's win-loss past performance against certain players who have been classified World No. 5 or higher is as follows:
- Elena Dementieva 8-2
- Daniela Hantuchová 7-1
- Anna Chakvetadze 6-0
- Lindsay Davenport 5-1
- Nadia Petrova 5-1
- Jelena Jankovic 4-1
- Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-4
- Mary Pierce 3-1
- Ana Ivanovic 3-2
- Venus Williams 3-2
- Kim Clijsters 3-4
- Justine Henin 3-6
- Martina Hingis 2-1
- Anastasia Myskina 2-3
- Serena Williams 2-5
- Jelena Dokic 1-0
- Amelie Mauresmo 1-3
- Jennifer Capriati 0-1
- Monica Seles 0-1
| Title Win in Singles | Title Win in Doubles | ||
| 2008 | Australian Open | 2004 | DFS Classic |
| 2008 | Qatar Total Open | 2003 | Japan Open |
| 2008 | Bausch & Lomb Championships | 2003 | Japan Open |
| 2007 | Acura Classic | ||
| 2006 | Pacific Life Open | ||
| 2006 | Acura Classic | ||
| 2006 | US Open | ||
| 2006 | Zurich Open | ||
| 2005 | Toray Pan Pacific Open | ||
| 2005 | Qatar Total Open | ||
| 2005 | DFS Classic | ||
| 2004 | DFS Classic | ||
| 2004 | Wimbledon | ||
| 2004 | Hansol Korea Open | ||
| 2004 | AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships | ||
| 2004 | WTA Tour Championships | ||
| 2003 | Japan Open | ||
| 2003 | Bell Challenge | ||
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