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Wimbledon 2012 Day 7: Sharapova v Lisicki

Other that the first couple of rounds, the next worst day to be affected by rain is Manic Monday - where all Fourth Round matches are scheduled.

And the weather was NOT going to be our friend.

First up was Maria Sharapova and Sabine Lisicki.  Lisicki won hearts here last year with her smiling and cheerfull demeanour, and of course Sharapova reached the final after successive injuries had threatened to curtail her career altogether.

As if both women were mindful of the weather they went off at a cracking pace, Sharapove breaking Lisicki in the first game.


The wind was playing havoc with their serves and already early on there were UEs all over the place.
Lisicki broke straight back and then held.


Lisicki was punching back everything coming at her with pace, nice and flat and broke again


Sharapova was continuing to struggle - either being drawn and stranded at the net, or just swinging too much.
It wasn't until she was serving to stay in the set that she seemed to have found her range on target, holding to stay in the set, and then breaking the German and looking as though she had finally settled into the match.
However - it was shortlived as Lisicki broke her again to take the first set.


At the start of the second set fine drizzle was falling and swirling about - Lisicki was feeling the grass and called the umpire down, who agreed and called them off.

When the women returned, Lisicki was not hanging about, breaking Sharapova in the second game.
Sharapova's time taking between points can be distracting enough.  They are a nightmare when you are sitting in a freezing Court 1!  I had packed in a fleecy pullover for the evening (if we got that far) and had to resort to it as we were shivering.


Maria did get herself on the board but this match was slipping away from her fast



Sabine took the match with an ace, sending last year's runner up off in the fourth round.




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