莎娃退出澳網 - 網球 Tennis

※ [本文轉錄自 Sharapova 看板]

作者: VWilliams (VStarr) 看板: Sharapova
標題: [情報] 莎娃退出澳網
時間: Sun Jan 11 12:26:57 2009



莎娃現在的積分是5030
扣掉澳網的兩千分之後 會變成3030
大約是排在15.16名附近....

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24898228-11088,00.html



Maria Sharapova out of Australian Open
Article from: Herald Sun
By Leo Schlink

January 11, 2009 03:03pm

EXCLUSIVE NEXT week's Australian Open has been rocked by the withdrawal of
defending champion Maria Sharapova.
Sharapova's management contacted Melbourne Park officials today with news her
right shoulder injury had not fully recovered.

Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley confirmed Sharapova's battle
for fitness had been lost.

"I'm obviously disappointed for Maria because she's extremely disappointed,"
Tiley said.

"We've been in constant contact with Maria and she's decided to withdraw
because she's not ready in her rehabilitation process.

"She's loves the Australian Open and she loves Melbourne - she's bitterly
disappointed."

Sharapova, 23, has not played since Montreal in August because of chronic
soreness in her shoulder.

Sharapova had been desperate to defend the Melbourne Park title.

But she last week withdrew from a Hong Kong exhibition, triggering fears she
would have to bypass the Open.

The decision comes as a massive blow to the Russian, who spent 10 weeks in
Arizona rehabilitating.

"We were working hard on my strength and building up all the muscles around
my shoulder," Sharapova said on her website.

"Since I can only do that for two hours a day, I also worked really hard on
working on other parts of my body.

"Unfortunately after my 10 weeks of shoulder rehab, I started hitting and
serving again and I still felt the same exact pain that I have had in my
shoulder since March."

Sharapova then underwent arthroscopic surgery - but believed she would
recover in time for the next week's Open.

"I miss competing so much. I am trying to do everything possible to be ready
for Australia, but I have promised my doctors, coach and family that I will
not rush back," she said.

"I have only been able to practice so many hours at a time which is why I
don't feel like I am ready to compete at a high level right now and this is
why I need to pull out of the exhibtion in Hong Kong.

"But the great news is that we have taken care of the problem that has been
bothering me so much over the last couple of years, and now is the time to
get into what I call 'match shape'."

Sharapova joins Lindsay Davenport (pregnant) and Nadia Petrova (viral
meningitis) as high-profile absentees.

Russia's world No. 5 Nikoloay Davydenko (foot) is the most notable casualty
on the men's side.


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