Sharapova to meet Venus for title after making short work of Chakvetadze
There's one in every crowd.
As scores of press photographers flashed and whirred with every move Maria Sharapova made at the JB Group Classic last night, one brave soul kept his focus firmly on her opponent, Anna Chakvetadze.
No matter to him that Sharapova turns heads, and sells newspapers, everywhere, our man seemed determined to prove everyone else wrong. The story, his actions screamed, is at the other end of the court, and no one but me seems to have realised.
How wrong he ended up being. Sharapova shrugged off early jitters before dispatching Chakvetadze 6-4, 6-3 to move into the final of the exhibition event for the second consecutive year.
Victoria Park's capacity crowd - bar one - was well pleased as the darling of the tennis world moved into the final of the event for the second year running.