My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it. Maria Sharapova More Quotes by Maria Sharapova More Quotes From Maria Sharapova On paper it's a step in the right direction. It's tough to just assess a single tournament. I have to put a lot of things in perspective for the last-four, five weeks since the clay season, coming into this part of the year, I was losing a few first-round matches, matches that I wanted to be winning. But to have had the victories I have had... obviously moving a step in the right direction. But today was not one of those steps. Maria Sharapova sports I just didn't feel free, and I felt there was a lot of force behind all the shots and that it wasn't coming natural to me — didn't have the rhythm. Maria Sharapova sports I don't expect extremely long rallies against an opponent like that, but sometimes it's not what it takes to win a match, and I think you have to kind of take care of your service games, and I have to serve better than I have been and take care of the return. Maria Sharapova sports I would love to be there( on centre court) again, of course. And from a draw perspective, it's an anticipated seeding match if those two seeds went through, it's a match that maybe. people anticipated. Maria Sharapova sports I really dug deep but sometimes you need to go through these types of matches where things don't go the way you want, happy the way I came back in the third set. Maria Sharapova sports You are very much in the moment, your team just hands you over, literally on to the stage, onto your universe for the next hour, hour-and-a-half, two or three, and you have to find a way to deliver. Maria Sharapova sports That's why I still continue to do this, because I have that passion of figuring things out and getting it done, whether it's a tough day, or whether it's a great day. Maria Sharapova sports When you've experienced grand slam victories, it's absolutely natural to have that goal in your mind, it would be silly for me to say my goal for this year is to win a lower-tier tournament because I strive to be on the big stage and to win on the big stage. Maria Sharapova sports I haven't set a time table for Maria Sharapova, but I've always said that I would do it on my own terms... i'd love to play in another Olympics, but I don't know if that will happen and at this point in 2018, I don't really want to know. I want to keep going and I want to keep working and see where that takes me. Maria Sharapova sports Yes, you're rusty and you're trying to get the rhythm again, it's my first match in a while, but this is what I've done for so long, and when you're in the moment, you try to block everything out, and you compete. And I'm a competitor by nature, even when things are not working. That's what I do. Maria Sharapova top-news I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. Maria Sharapova top-news I was given this medicine by my doctor for several health issues that I was having back in 2006. I was getting sick a lot. I was getting the flu every couple of months. I had irregular EKG results as well as indications of diabetes with a family history of diabetes, (Mildronate) made me healthy, and that's why I continued to take it. Maria Sharapova health-news I made a huge mistake. I know that with this I face consequences and I don't want to end my career this way. Maria Sharapova company-news I made a huge mistake. I let my fans down and I let the sport down, i take full responsibility for it. Maria Sharapova most-read-articles I think if you're serving maybe 180( kph) against somebody else compared to Serena, that's an ace, against Serena, as we all know, the return is one of her great strengths. She's very explosive. Maria Sharapova sports It's obviously always frustrating, i mean, it's motivating. It's motivating because she's at a different level. She makes you go back to the drawing board, not just for me, but for many other players. She makes you work. That's inspiring. Maria Sharapova top-news You're always trying to improve, i got Maria Sharapova into the quarterfinal of a grand slam. Maria Sharapova world If I lose every match I'm still happy to be out there doing what I love, i just want to play as much as possible. I kind of almost want to play catch-up. Maria Sharapova sports Since Richel Hogenkamp was playing on my court, I like to see what the conditions are, how the court is playing, i think we're quite professional in what we do. Maria Sharapova top-news I felt like I had small openings, i just wasn't able to keep that level up today. She was able to do that for a longer period of time. Maria Sharapova world
