Getting her lunch handed to her
Sharapova had an interesting run in Paris this year. In the match against Schnyder the Parisian crowd turned on her at 7-7 in the final set when she won a disputed point while serving at 30-love. Schnyder watched a serve land in, then complained she had held up a hand to call for time.

Her complaint was heard by the chair umpire, but it might as well have fell on deaf ears as the point counted, and on it Sharapova recorded her first ace of the tournament. Not accustomed to hearing jeers, Sharapova said later she didn't see Schnyder's hand up calling for time until after she struck the ball. She also said she had no regrets about what happened.

"It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Teresa at the same time," Sharapova said about the controversial point. "You're fighting for every single point out there."

Against Ivanovic Sharapova's fight for points didn't blow anyone away. She was the first to admit that she wasn’t at the top of her game, but she didn't -- at least outwardly -- show any dejection.

Even in defeat she came up with one of her great one-liners. When asked about the lack of atmosphere around the court at the beginning of the Ivanovic match with the suggestion that many people might have still been at lunch, Sharapova joked, “I would have loved to be having lunch then, too. I don’t blame them. I’d rather be having a chocolate croissant than being down 3-0.”

No lock on grass
At the French Open Sharapova failed to look like a player who has won two other majors. After losing to Ivanovic, the Russian beamed a smile in the press room, saying that Wimbledon is next and everything is going to be fine. She may be right, but I’m not banking on Sharapova as the favorite going into Wimbledon.

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Amelie Mauresmo is the defending champion at the All-England Club, but who knows what kind of shape she will be in after having an appendectomy earlier this year. This Paris fortnight Mauresmo lost in the third round. Serena and Venus Williams can't be counted out of having shots to win Wimbledon, but if I was a betting man, I’d be backing Justine Henin as the favorite at the grasscourt major.

Henin, who missed the Australian Open earlier this year while going through a divorce, is going to have great momentum from her strong showing at the French Open. And while the Belgian has yet to win Wimbledon, she’s been to the final twice, in 2001 and last year so she knows how to mow down grass almost as well as how to sweep up on clay.

We'll see a more confident Sharapova on the grass courts, but will we see a player who has learned a lesson and will be open to getting away from her standard approach in a match if that approach isn't working?

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