probably could do with this thread to keep all the videos together and leave the photos thread for photos...
Nouf might repost some of his vintage Mvids in here as well...they are a must for Maria fans especially the ones from Wimby, USO & RG 2004, as well as the offcourt ones.
aussiesharapova thank you! I'll never forget RG 2012! It would be amazing and it would make me so happy to see her defend her title or win it again once!
well she was young, voice changes with years, grows old, she doesn't sound the same anymore, but her lough does
edit: btw i asked once, i will once more, has anyone link or clip of interview when the top 10 players were asked who is the greatest player ever that they played againstž' and all answered serena except maria who said monica seles
please if anyone has, i'm trying to find it on you tube, i'm desperate
IOC are greedy bastards so OG rights are a big deal hence everything and anything OG related get's blocked. Not sure why it still happens at this stage as they aren't gonna make any money from highlight vids if they themselves aren't putting them up, or maybe you can still get them online on NBC etc. I doubt it though.
It's clear Maria wanted to win this match more than most in her career. She was pumped, animated, and irritated out there. The combination of it being the Olympics and the fact that Maria was really annoyed with losing to Lisicki at Wimbledon made her want this badly. She probably wanted it a little too much because she made the match tougher than it should have been.
But I do love seeing Maria getting more emotional than usual on the court.
She actually did that a bit throughout the OG, she was much more rattled looking after UEs etc although I'm sure that's how she feels during all her matches, but she was so pumped for the OG she didn't care about letting it show.
I hope that she's healthy next time around, she should team up with someone for mixed like Vika did this year. Yeah singles is her main thing but an Olympic Gold is Olympic Gold.
I just watched the Lisciki video and I just love to see Maria so expressive and angry in her matches:lol: I think this is the only time I've seen her smash a racket in the ground
Nope I think it's just because she's somehow a tough match-up for Martha even though IMO Maria should win in comfortable straights against her every time. Plus the crying/drama-queenery after W '12.
Re-watching the HL's, and totally forgot/blocked out that Martha had SP in the first set. I'm sure I lost 10 years off my life thanks to that match.
The Lisicki match at the Olympics was how I first discovered TF - I was in the cinema during the match, and saw on Twitter that she'd hit a left-handed shot volley, I wanted to figure out where in the match it was, so googled it and found TF - as people had been going crazy over it in the LC thread!
This is an old interview but I had never seen in before I think it's before the 2009 USO. It's really interesting how the interviewer says to Maria her attitude is more mature since the injury and I have to agree. Although I often regret her injury and how it took her career back a couple of years it really matures her as a person. I definitely like a lot more this Maria than the one before that