16 May,2014 08:32 AM IST | | AFP
Ana Ivanovic handed Maria Sharapova her first loss of the spring clay season as she beat the Russian eighth seed 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the quarter-fials of the ATP-WTA Rome Masters
Maria Sharapova
Rome: Ana Ivanovic handed Maria Sharapova her first loss of the spring clay season as she beat the Russian eighth seed 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the quarter-fials of the ATP-WTA Rome Masters.
Maria Sharapova
Sharapova had won back-to-back titles in Stuttgart and Madrid, compiling a dozen straight victories.
Ivanovic, the 2008 Roland Garros winner and world number one, had won just two of ten previous meetings with the four-time grand slam champion, the last seven years ago at a Roland Garros semi-final.
The Serb next plays Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.
