PARIS: Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova bring their career-long bitter feud to Roland Garros on Monday with the bad blood between the sport’s two iconic stars threatening to boil over. The 22nd match of their one-sided rivalry will once again be played out against a familiar soundtrack of suspicion and public bickering. “I think Serena hated me for being the skinny kid who beat her, against all odds, at Wimbledon,” Sharapova wrote. Williams has monopolized their on-court clashes for the last 14 years so much so that Sharapova has taken just one set in a decade. Two-time Paris champion Sharapova, meanwhile, is wary of the enormity of the routs she has suffered.

Source: Manila Times June 04, 2018 11:15 UTC