By Andrew Baker
Sharapova's game looked in fairly robust shape in the course of a sporadically testing first round match on No 1 Court.
Her opponent, Stephanie Foretz, is a 27-year-old French journeyperson who has never made it beyond the quarter-finals of a Tour event and whose recent history consists largely of failed attempts to qualify for proper tournaments.
She made it into Wimbledon, though, and her brave Gallic heart must have sunk when she heard about the draw. Nothing in the form book suggested that Foretz would be any more threat to Sharapova than a road bump en route to the press conference.
That was the way that it looked in the opening set, when descriptive notes resembled the station log at Peckham CID. The 2004 champion slaughtered Foretz's feeble serve, murdered her ground strokes and beat up her occasional lobs.
Sharapova captured the first set 6-1 in less than half an hour and at the changeover her diminutive opponent looked more in need of a comforting hug than an energy drink and a bite of banana.
SOURCE: Telegraph UK - Full story here...
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