Sharapova through at Stanford
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MARIA Sharapova played her first WTA match in the United States since 2015 and beat Jennifer Brady 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 on Monday night in the opening round of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford, California.
Sharapova, a wildcard entrant and five-time Grand Slam champion, won the opening four games of the match, lost the first three of the second set and cruised in the third.
“I feel like I just want to hug everyone and say thank you,” Sharapova said in an on-court interview. “It’s my first match in the States in a really long time, and it’s the closest thing to home for me.”
Sharapova served a 15-month ban after testing positive for a newly banned drug at the 2016 Australian Open. She returned in April and played in three tournaments, but missed Wimbledon because of an injury.
Top-seeded and reigning Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza of Spain will play 17-year-old American Kayla Day, a 6-4, 6-2 winner over Japanese veteran Misaki Doi.
Ana Konjuh, the No. 5 seed from Croatia, won 6-3, 1-0 after New Zealand qualifier Marina Erakovic retired from the match with an injury. Seventh-seeded Lesia Tsurenko beat Spain’s Lara Arruabarrena 6-3, 6-3.
In Kitzhuehel, Austria, former champion Philipp Kohlschreiber advanced to the second round of the Generali Open by beating Facundo Bagnis of Argentina 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 yesterday.
Coming off a semifinal run in Hamburg last week, the German led Bagnis 2-0 in the second set before losing five straight games. He broke Bagnis once in the final set to close out the win.
Kohlschreiber, who won the event in 2015, next plays seventh-seeded Czech Jiri Vesely, who defeated Yannick Hanfmann of Germany 6-4, 6-4.
Also, Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo upset two-time former champion Robin Haase of the Netherlands 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4, and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina saved four match points in the second set before beating Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil 2-6, 7-6 (11), 7-6 (4).
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