Tour by playing doubles with countrywoman Elena Vesnina. They lost in three sets, but Maria was still satisfied to to be back on the court.The Russians lost to Ekaterina Makarova and Tatiana Pouchek, 61 46 10-7. Sharapova and Vesnina were up 7-4 in the match tiebreak, but couldn't close it out.
"It's really good to be back. It seems like forever ago I last played," Sharapova said. "There are so many things I've missed about playing - the preparation for the match, going on the court and playing... I started training a couple of months ago. It has been difficult. Right now I'm still working up to being 100% again."
The singles matches consisted of only Top 50 players, three of them being between No. 40 and No. 50 in the world.
No. 41 Samantha Stosur, No. 42 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and No. 48 Lucie Safarova all won their matches in straight sets, Stosur winning to Fransecsa Schiavone, 61 64, Pavlyuchenkova beating Marta Domachowska 61 63, and Safarova ousting Melanie Oudin 63 61.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Singles - First Round
Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) d. Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 64 64
Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 61 64
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. Marta Domachowska (POL) 61 63
Lucie Safarova (CZE) d. (WC) Melanie Oudin (USA) 63 61
Vera Dushevina (RUS) d. (Q) Petra Martic (CRO) 64 63
Edina Gallovits (ROU) d. Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 36 75 75
Roberta Vinci (ITA) d. Ayumi Morita (JPN) 63 64
Tamira Paszek (AUT) d. Mara Santangelo (ITA) 63 62
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 63 62
Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP) d. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 76(5) 76(9)
Karin Knapp (ITA) d. (WC) Vania King (USA) 62 61
(Q) Petra Cetkovska (CZE) d. (Q) Stéphanie Foretz (FRA) 62 75
(Q) Kristina Barrois (GER) d. Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 61 62
(Q) Anastasiya Yakimova (BLR) d. (Q) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 64 61
(Q) Angela Haynes (USA) d. (WC) Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 75 62
(WC) Sania Mirza (IND) d. Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 26 63 62
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