Sharapova returns
Those unmistakable shrieks punctuating point after point on Court 1 at the French Open in Paris on Monday trumpeted Maria Sharapova’s return to the Grand Slam stage.
Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus is not the sort of opponent who would normally trouble a top-of-her-game Sharapova, yet there was trouble.
Still, a win is a win, and Sharapova’s first match at a major tournament in nearly a year ended with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Yakimova of Belarus and a spot in the French Open’s second round.
Elsewhere, Rafael Nadal extended his French Open winning streak to a record 29 matches by beating Marcos Daniel of Brazil, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3, in the first round.
Nadal is trying to become the first player to win five titles in a row in Paris, and the man he beat in the last three finals, Roger Federer, also won easily. More noteworthy, perhaps, was Andy Roddick’s 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory over French wild-card entry Romain Jouan, the American’s first victory in the tournament since 2005.
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