July 2, 2011

Sharapova vs Kvitova Wimbledon live stream online free

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All England Lawn Tennis Championships | Wimbledon, England

Saturday, 2 July 2011

LIVE MATCH IN PLAY HERE (link goes Live with the match)

QUICK HITS

This year’s Wimbledon champion will be the youngest woman to win the title here at Wimbledon since 2004 (Sharapova won at 17 years, 76 days; the last time a player younger than 25 raised the trophy here), and the youngest at any major since at least 2009 Roland Garros (Kuznetsova, aged 23 years, 11months)
Kvitova and Sharapova are the 4th and 5h different players to reach a singles Grand Slam final this year. Only Roland Garros winner Li Na has reached more than 1 major final in 2011
Kvitova has dropped two sets (Sharapova yet to drop a set) in advancing to the final, yet has been on court for 35 minutes less over the six previous matches

SHARAPOVA QUICK HITS

Sharapova has advanced to the final without dropping a set; a woman has won the Wimbledon title without dropping a set 9 times in the Open Era (28 times overall); the last Wimbledon champion to win the title without dropping a set was SerenaWilliams in 2010
Sharapova has dropped 32 games en route to the final
Sharapova has won all 8 three-setmatches she has played in 2011; coming intoWimbledon, she had a career 74.8% winning record in 3-setmatches, themost for any player in the Top 300
Sharapova is bidding to win her 4th Grand Slam title after 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open; she was also runner-up at 2007 Australian Open
Sharapova is bidding to become the 9th woman to win multiple singles titles atWimbledon in the Open Era
Sharapova is contesting her second Wimbledon final (2004); the 7-year span between final appearances at
Wimbledon is the longest time-gap between finals at Wimbledon in the Open Era.(Goolagong-Cawley won her two Wimbledon titles 9 years apart, in 1971 and 1980; also reaching finals in 1972, 1975, 1976)
In the Open Era, in addition to the 5 women that won all 4 Grand Slam titles, 8 women have won 3 of the 4 GS titles, including Maria Sharapova. Of those 8, 5 women have reached the final of the Grand Slam tournament that they have not won

KVITOVA QUICK HITS

Kvitova is bidding for her 4th title of the year after Brisbane, Paris [Indoors] and Madrid; she is 1 of 4 players to have won multiple titles this year (also Wozniacki, Li, Azarenka)
This is Kvitova’s second career grass court final, also at 2011 Eastbourne (l. Bartoli)
After losing her first 4 career matches on grass, Kvitova has reached SF at 2010 Wimbledon, R-Up at 2011
Eastbourne and is in the final at Wimbledon; she has won 15 of her last 17 matches on grass
Kvitova is 6-9 vs. Top 5 opponents in her career and has won her last 4 such matches; she is 4-1 vs. Top 5 ranked
opponents this year (equals Li for most this year)

Its going to be one hell of a final.. So make sure you stick with us and Watch Sharapova vs Kvitova Wimbledon live stream online free !