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| Serena Williams Vs. Sharapova |
This is the greatest rivalry in women’s tennis — a feud which flows as powerfully off the court as on it. Bound at the top of the game by an obvious mutual antipathy are Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, who face each other in a highly-charged semi-final at Wimbledon today.
Williams, 33, is the more physically powerful, with a ferocious temper and the mindset of a battling champion.
However, she cannot compete with Sharapova’s media-friendly combination of blonde Siberian beauty and sponsor-friendly image control — which has meant Sharapova, 28, has waltzed away with a fortune of £125 million and counting.
Added to that, Sharapova’s boyfriend, Grigor Dimitrov, was once Serena’s lover. It’s an awkward situation given that the two women spend 20 weeks a year in close proximity on the tennis tour — all the while ignoring each other, or throwing out coded barbs.
We put the queens of tennis head to head Serena Williams has beaten Maria Sharapova on clay, on grass, indoors and outdoors, year in and year out. Of their 19 meetings during their 11-year rivalry, Serena has won 17 times.
They first played each other in 2004 in Miami — when Williams won. However, that was the year Sharapova went on to beat Williams and win Wimbledon. Since then she has only beaten her on one other occasion.
After their last meeting, through evidently gritted teeth, Sharapova said: ‘I love every time that I step on the court against her because she’s the best. And you always want to play against the best. I’m proud to play in the same era as her.’ Dailymail
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