Maria reaches another semis in Stuttagart overcoming a 2 hours and 16 minutes battle against Ana Ivanovic.
The Russian beauty was struggling at the beginning to warm up as she was trying to recover from a 3 hours battle she had the day before when she defeated Safarova in a very intense match.
From Maria
“It was hard to get my body going, I need some time to warm up a little,” Maria said. “Another tough one.”
“Ana has a much bigger game, a big forehand, I really had to push myself through the end, I am glad I got thru,” added Maria
Finally Sharapova won the math in 3 tough sets 7-5 4-6 6-4.
Next vs Kerber
The Russian beauty will play against the home favorite Angelique Kerber that downed Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3 7-6 (2).
Head to head is 3-1 for Maria, 1-0 on clay, but this time Angelique will be much fresher than Maria
