Maria Sharapova

Women's tennis desperately wants Maria Sharapova to do well – never more so than on the eve of the French Open – and, need it be repeated, not exclusively for reasons to do with the clean swing of her racket.She played competently enough at the Foro Italico to beat the Australian Sam Stosur for the ninth time in a row and take the Rome Masters title, but it was a grinding performance in a dull