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Sharapova lost in the first match at Australian Open

The winner of the Australian Open 2008 Maria Sharapova is concluded by the first tournament of the season Grand Slam in the first round. Offender Sharapova became her friend Maria Kirilenko, winning in three sets – 7:6 (7:4), 3:6, 6:4.

“We never easy to play against each other, but all of our matches are obtained persistent – said after his sensational victory Kirilenko, – I arrived in Melbourne with confidence in our abilities “.

Sharapova at a press conference admitted that she did not intend to make of the tragedy: “I leave the tournament on Monday the first game of the week, that explains a lot. At the same time I get upset, but I can take it for granted, to return to the court and continue to work. I choose the second option “.

been in the second round of last year’s finalist of the tournament, the second racket of the world Dinara Safina, who beat Magdalena Rybarikovu from Slovakia – 6:4, 6:4, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Anastasia trumped Sevastovu from Latvia – 6:2, 6:4.

Ex-Ukrainian, and now a representative of the United Kingdom Elena Baltacha in three sets was greater than the Frenchwoman Pauline Parmentier — 6:4, 3:6, 7:5.

match against another rossiyanki Vera Dushevina be Elena Dementieva, who excelled last week in Sydney. Dementieva, the fifth line occupies a world ranking in the final of the competition, which she won the second year in a row, play the best tennis player at the moment of the world American prison Serena Williams – 6:3, 6:2. For the Olympic champion in Beijing this title was 15-meters in his career.