Injured Sharapova in Games doubt
Friday, 1 August 2008
Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the WTA Rogers Open in Montreal with a shoulder injury which could jeopardise her Olympics and US Open participation, reports BBC.
The world number three will have an MRI scan Thursday after struggling with pain in her second-round 7-5 5-7 6-2 win over Poland's Marta Domachowska.
Sharapova, 21, said her presence at the Olympics and then US Open in August depends largely on the test results.
Elsewhere, top seed Ana Ivanovic stuttered to a win over Petra Kvitova.
"You try to do every little possible thing you can. But at the end of the day when you go on court and you're thinking about aggravating things, you're thinking about an injury, it's not really the way to play.
The world number three will have an MRI scan Thursday after struggling with pain in her second-round 7-5 5-7 6-2 win over Poland's Marta Domachowska.
Sharapova, 21, said her presence at the Olympics and then US Open in August depends largely on the test results.
Elsewhere, top seed Ana Ivanovic stuttered to a win over Petra Kvitova.
"You try to do every little possible thing you can. But at the end of the day when you go on court and you're thinking about aggravating things, you're thinking about an injury, it's not really the way to play.