Will Maria Sharapova miss the Olympics and U.S.Open because of a cold shoulder?

Question

Will Maria Sharapova miss the Olympics and U.S.Open because of a cold shoulder?

Answer 1

MONTREAL (AP) -- Third-seeded Maria Sharapova withdrew from the Rogers Open after her second-round victory Wednesday because of a shoulder injury, possibly jeopardizing her participation at the Beijing Olympics.

Sharapova of Russia defeated Marta Domachowska of Poland 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 in a match that took nearly three hours. She will have an MRI on Thursday.

Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic, playing with a swollen thumb, advanced to the third round with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Petra Kvitova.

Trailing 3-4 in the second set, Sharapova had the trainer come out to look at her right shoulder, an injury that might have contributed to her committing 17 double faults in the match. Though she eventually lost the second set, Sharapova won the first four games of the final set to lock up the match.

"It's obviously unfortunate,'' Sharapova said. "You know, you try to do every little possible thing you can. But at the end of the day when you go on court and you're thinking about aggravating things, you're thinking about an injury, it's not really the way to play.''

Sharapova said she considered not coming out for the third set, and she will have tests on the shoulder that's been bothering her since March when she aggravated it at Indian Wells.

She said her presence at the upcoming Olympics and the US Open, which begins in late August, will depend largely on the results of the tests.

"At the end of the day, it's tough to go on court and not be close to even 50 percent,'' Sharapova said. "I'm too good of a player to go out there and try to fight through something that I think can eventually become something serious.''

Third-seeded Maria Sharapova also advanced despite an injury, beating Poland's Marta Domachowska 7-5, 5-7, 6-2. Sharapova called for the trainer trailing 3-4 in the second set to look at her right shoulder, an injury that might have contributed to her committing 17 double faults in the match.

Though she eventually lost the second set, Sharapova of Russia won the first four games of the final set to lock up the match.

Ivanovic, who hurt her right thumb while practicing 10 days ago, refused to use the injury as an excuse for her performance in her first match since Wimbledon.

In other matches, Second-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia beat Aleksandra Wozniak of nearby Blainville, Quebec, 6-0, 6-4.

No. 7 seed Dinara Safina of Russia and ninth-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland each advanced to the third round in straight sets.

Safina easily dispatched fellow Russian Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 6-4. Schnyder came back from a 2-5 hole in the second set to beat Monica Niculescu 6-1, 7-5.

Sixth-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze of Russia beat Jill Craybas of the United States 6-2, 7-5.

Two seeds lost Wednesday. No. 13 seed Maria Kirilenko fell to local favorite Stephanie Dubois of Laval, Quebec, 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4), and 15th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy lost 6-3, 0-6, 6-3 Michelle Larcher de Brito, a 15-year-old qualifier from Portugal.

Answer 2

she'll miss the olympics but she'll play the us open, that's what i heard, that she will try to recover so she could play the us open

Answer 3

Yes. She got that cold shoulder when she fell off her high seat. Get it, high seat?

Answer 4

this woman is extremely anti-russian, she says shes russian but evertime she should play for russia, a sudden injury or illness comes up!

Answer 5

I 2 saw dat on t.v. nd reporters said she hs decided 2 step bck frm olympics.must b pretty hard on her since olympics evry 4th yr.

Answer 6

Yes she is out.  She has won a few titles and can go her way now.  She is constantly getting injured now and that means her days of winning are over too.  She unlike Roget didn't bring anything to the game of tennis.  I saw her on TV talking about her shoulder and it seems it's very bad.  This is bad for her as she will be out for a while and when she comes back, she will have to start all over again and by then it will be too late.  She looked pretty sad talking about it as she knows her days of winning are almost certainly over because her only game was the serve.  She has also aged alot for her age.  She looks like an old wrinkled up woman already.  Too bad.

Answer 7

I heard she is out of the Olympics, but nothing about US Open until now.  see article below.

Answer 8

Yes - it was confirmed through Yahoo! Sports that she will miss the Olympics as well as the U.S. Open.  It is particularly fishy that her trainers didn't spot a torn tendon in her shoulder - isn't that why they go to school and learn to identify symptoms of injuries?  

I think Sharapova, as the above poster mentioned, may see a drop in her level of play because her serve was a primary weapon in her game.  I think her coach and trainers will have to re-adjust her serve motion, which they have done a couple of times, in order to lessen the stress and intensity of impact on her shoulder.  I feel that her coaches need to really step up her footwork training and specifically, her return of serve and backhand.  

Since her serve will be noteably weaker, she must rely on her groundstrokes and getting back as much balls as possible to extend rallies and wait for openings to hit winners.  Sharapova cannot not rely too much on hitting service winners or aces anymore - there's too much risk involved.

Answer 9

Yes,she will miss both of them because of the shoulder injury

she said she'll be out about 2-3 months.....

and yes she is so sad about that!!!!

she had the injury since april