Newsday (N.Y.): Maria Sharapova loses to Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England -- They call it Manic Monday here. Think of it as a tennis version of March Madness. Everyone remaining is scheduled in a fourth-rounder. The next thing you know, a favorite is defeated, and the survivors are tiptoeing to the quarterfinals.

As Serena Williams will be. As Maria Sharapova will not be.

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Los Angeles Times: Maria Sharapova falls at Wimbledon, but she'll always have Paris

By Art Spander
Special to The Los Angeles Times

WIMBLEDON, England — The way Maria Sharapova was talking, discussing her French Open victory last month as opposed to her Wimbledon loss Monday ("I'll have that for the rest of my career"), it was easy to think of the film "Casablanca."

"We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart says in that familiar line. So will Sharapova.

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