Maria Sharapova pulls out of 2008 Olympics

No, Russian cutie pie, Maria Sharapova, will not be doing this or any other activity at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. According to her official website, Maria has pulled out of the Olympics because of a shoulder injury.

Maria was playing in the 2008 WTA Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada being held July 28-Aug. 3. She was the 3rd seed. After a 1st round BYE, she defeated 56th ranked Marta Domachowska of Poland in a close 3-setter, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2. She then had to withdraw from the tournament because of her shoulder injury.

Tatiana Golovin to miss French Open

Cutie pie, Tatiana Golovin, will miss the French Open this year. The world No. 21 player will not take part in the tournament as she recently underwent surgery in order to remove a cyst from her abdomen, according to Techtainment. She is now recovering from that operation.

Tatiana is from France. It has to be a big disappointment to miss a Grand Slam in her home country. Hopefully she’ll be recovered for the next Grand Slam.

Daniela Hantuchova withdraws from French Open

Cutie pie, Daniela Hantuchova, has withdrawn from the French Open because of a stress fracture in her foot. The World No. 9 player announced the news on Thursday at her official website.

In a statement reported at On The Baseline, Daniela said “A near heartbreaking day for me. After final consult with my team, I am sad to announce that I will be missing my first Roland Garros as a professional athlete. Every player’s dream is to compete in the Grand Slams and I so much wanted to make Paris happen.” We hope she’ll be healed up and ready for the next Grand Slam.

Maria Sharapova out with injury

Cutie pie, Maria Sharapova is out of the 2008 Internazionali d’Italia tennis tournament being played in Rome, Italy due to an injury.

Maria had made it to the semifinals with wins over Dominika Cibulkova, Caroline Wozniacki, and Patty Schnyder. She was scheduled to play Jelena Jankovic today, but pulled out of the match with a left calf strain.

That’s the bad news. The good news is, she doesn’t think the injury will affect her preparations for the French Open which begins next weekend. The injury is described as a strain. They will test it again after three days off.

Elena Dementieva retires from match with injury

Cutie pie Elena Dementieva was the only one of our cutie pies remaining in the Sony Ericsson Open Tournament going into the 4th round. But that was the end for all our cutie pies.

Elena played Jelena Jankovic in her quarterfinal match. Jankovic was leading 6-1 3-1 in the contest when Elena, who had a back injury treated on court earlier in the match, decided she could not carry on. She retired from the match before making her back problems worse.

Hopefully her injury will not keep her out of future tournaments.

Maria Sharpova injury

Cutie pie Maria Sharapova is not playing in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami this week. She is the only one of the top players not participating.

According to On the Baseline
“Maria Sharapova is in no rush to return to the tennis courts after re-injuring her shoulder at Indian Wells.The 2008 Australian Open champion learned her lesson last season and this time she is willing to take as long a break as necessary to recover. Sharapova tweaked her right shoulder last week at the Pacific Life Open, prompting her to withdraw from the mandatory Sony Ericsson Open. ”

Injury – Ana Ivanovic

I’m sad, but not because of this photo of Serbian cutie pie Ana Ivanovic. I like the photo, a lot! This photo is of Ana playing a backhand during her Jan 24th semi-final match against Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in the Australian Open 2008. That’s a nice backhand!

I’m sad because Ana sprained her ankle when she slipped on the baseline when leading Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 5-1 in a second round match at the Qatar Open last Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. She struggled to finish and win, but then had to withdraw before her next match because her ankle did not improve enough overnight.

Ana was the top-seed this tournament. It’s too bad she had to drop out. That makes me sad.