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Playing style

Sharapova is a power baseliner, with power, depth, and angles on her groundstrokes.[9] Instead of using a traditional volley or overhead smash, she often prefers to hit a powerful "swinging"



volley when approaching the net or attacking lobs.[10] Sharapova is thought to have good speed around the court, especially considering her height.[9] At the beginning of 2008, some observers noted that Sharapova had developed her game, showing improved movement and footwork and the addition of a drop shot and sliced backhand to her repertoire of shots.[11]


Sharapova playing at the Zurich Open in 2006
Sharapova's preferred surfaces are the fast-playing hard and grass courts because her game is not as well-suited to the slower-playing clay courts.[12] She lacks confidence in her ability to move and slide on this surface[12] and once described herself as like a "cow on ice" after a match on clay.[12] Her limitations on this surface are reflected in her career results, as she did not win a Women's Tennis Association tour title on clay until April 2008 (despite having won 18 titles on other surfaces) and because the French Open is the only Grand Slam singles title she has not yet won.
Sharapova's first and second serves are powerful.[9] She is able to serve at speeds that very few women are capable of reaching. At the Rome Masters (Internazionali BNL d'Italia) she hit at




206kph (128mph) fault serve against Dominika Cibulková,[citation needed] and, at the World TeamTennis in 2007, she struck a clean 126mph serve,[citation needed] just 4mph short of the WTA record serve.[citation needed] She is often able to produce an ace or a service winner or provoke a weak reply from her opponent, which allows her to take control of the rally immediately. A serious shoulder injury in early 2007, however, reduced the effectiveness of her serve for several months, as she routinely produced eight to ten double faults in many of her matches during this period.[13] She later changed her service motion to a more compacted backswing (as opposed to her traditional elongated backswing) in an attempt to put less stress on her shoulder,[14] but she nevertheless periodically experienced problems with her serve




throughout the rest of the year, most notably producing 12 double faults in her third-round loss at the US Open.[15] Her serve appeared to be more effective at the 2008 Australian Open, as she produced just 17 double faults in seven matches while winning the tournament.[16] Her servingproblemsresurfaced, however, during the spring of 2008, as she produced 43 double faults in just four matches at the French Open[17] and eight double faults during her second round loss at Wimbledon.[18] Television commentator and two-time US Open singles champion Tracy Austin believes that when Sharapova experiences problems with her serve, she often loses confidence in the rest of her game, and as a result, produces more unforced errors and generally plays more tentatively.[19]




Sharapova is known for on-court "grunting",[20] which reached a recorded 101 decibels during a match at Wimbledon in 2005.[20] She has maintained that grunting is an element of her game. She faced criticism for it though, from fellow competitor Elena Dementieva and Judy Murray, mother of Andy, at Wimbledon that year. Monica Seles, a notorious grunter, came to her defence, saying that the noise produced is involuntary and a part of women's tennis.[21]