Entertaining matches going on at the Bank of the West Classic this week in Stanford. Caught the middle of the Sharapova/Dementieva match on ESPN2 last night (just before Elena took the second set). QF results are as follows: [5] Maria Sharapova (RUS) d. [2] Elena Dementieva (RUS) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 [1] Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. […]
fashion focus: maria sharapova’s wimbledon dress, in color
Maria Sharapova, fifth seed at this week’s Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, Calif., is safely through to the second round after taking out Zheng Jie 6-4, 7-5. As you may remember, Zheng beat Masha in the first week of the 2010 Indian Wells tourney. Draw: Up next for her in that bottom half […]
that’s “miss fabulous” to you
Bank of the West Classic wildcard Dinara Safina, here speaking to the media a day before facing Kimiko Date-Krumm in the tournament’s opening round. Whodathunk she’d be into Disney Couture? Follow: If you’re not doing so already, add Forty Deuce to your RSS readers (and Twitter feed) to get great coverage of the Stanford event. […]
one part temper, one part shriek…
Maria Sharapova and Yanina Wickmayer have teamed up and entered the Bank of the West Classic (at Stanford starting on July 26). This is the only the third time since 2005 that Masha’s played doubles. We love this Maria Doodle from FT (they didn’t quite get her penmanship right, though). Tix and info: Check out […]