Maria Sharapova Injuries Derailing Her Career? Sharapova Needs Trainer for Hip Strain During Loss at Australian Open [VIDEO] : TENNIS : Sports World News

Maria Sharapova tried to place a optimistic spin on her ouster within the fourth spherical of the Australian Open.

Privately, she could also be involved that her physique merely might not maintain as much as the extent she must compete at a top-tier degree.

Sharapova, the No. 3 seed, misplaced to Twentieth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a match lasting greater than two hours.

Sharapova’s nemesis, Serena Williams, already had been bounced from the event, so Sharapova had an opportunity to return to tennis after a 5 month layoff with a Grand Slam victory.

As a substitute, she now has to beat one other harm. Sharapova took a medical timeout on the finish of the second set to obtain therapy of a hip pressure, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. It added that Sharapova was bothered by a hip pointer final summer season at Wimbledon.

That harm, nevertheless, was unrelated to her five-month absence. She needed to relaxation her ailing shoulder on her proper arm.

Sharapova declined to make use of the hip pressure as an excuse for the loss.

”I have never been enjoying one of the best tennis of this event however I discovered methods to get by means of the final two matches,” mentioned the Russian. ”I attempted to try this once more at this time, however she performed extraordinarily nicely.”

Sharapova checked out her run by means of the Australian Open as a exceptional signal.

”It is a success in phrases that I am again and I am wholesome,” she mentioned. ”That is fairly essential. In any other case I would not give myself an opportunity to play. On that be aware I’ve to take a look at the positives and see the place I’ve come from within the final 4 or 5 months.

”I will surely have cherished to play a bit of bit extra earlier than enjoying a grand slam, however that is the prospect I used to be given. I am good sufficient to have the ability to take it and acknowledge that I am nonetheless fairly fortunate to be within the draw and giving myself an opportunity to win it.”

However doubt must be creeping in Sharapova’s thoughts, at the least a bit of. She has not been fully wholesome in a event in virtually a yr, between the shoulder and the hip.

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