Maria Sharapova plays at her very best to concede just 4 games to world no.9 Ana Ivanovic. Ana Ivanovic manage to get on the scoreboard only in 8th games after she was 0-6 0-1 down. At that point we finally had a match with Maria winning the decisive break only in the 9th game. The final score was 6-0 6-4.
Some numbers
Maria scored 68 points vs. Ivanovic’s 53. Sharapova was once again very erratic with her serve to fire 9 aces and commit 9 double faults. The Russian was exceptionally good in defending the break points he has conceded to concede just 1 service game on 9 break points. Match Stats.
Sharapova: It got tricky at the end
Maria commented “I thought I executed quite well with the plan that I had in mind from the beginning of the match. I felt that I was really the one kind of going for it, just making her move. Sometimes the rallies I lost were when she was on the run – I was all right with those. I’d rather lose those types of rallies than if she’s pushing me back and hitting winners. It definitely got tricky in the end, but I was happy to get through today.”
Next vs. Kvitova
Maria will play Petra Kvitova for the title and for becoming the next world no.2. Head to head is 5-2 for Sharapova that has won the last 4 matches. The Russian is the favorite for the title.
