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 | Sharapova won the tournament in Rome15-05-2011 |
Seeded seventh in the tournament scheme, Maria Sharapova beat Samantha Stosur, No. 6-seeded, with 6:2 and 6:4 and won her first tournament this year. The final between Sharapova and Stosur nyakolkochasovo started with a delay due to heavy rain. After several weeks of sunny weather in the Eternal city, the rain began to fall when the two finalists heating the court. Sharapova and Stosur spent several hours in the locker room before you leave for the final game. Masha started game in the best possible way, her powerful strokes almost always lies within the court and the Australian was helpless to almost perfect game of her opponent. Sharapova quickly won four straight games, reducing Stosur 2-4, but its ambitions for a turnaround were new Broken after two games in the account of Russian. The second part of Sharapova's dominance was not so serious, but nevertheless continued to prevail and it was 5-4 when serving for the title.
Followed the controversial game in which Stosur led by 15-30 but lost the next three rallies and eventually after 81 minutes play Masha achieved the greatest success on clay in his career.