Happy birthday Maria! :bdaycake: I really hope Maria can make her 23rd birthday a special one with a huge quarterfinal win over Jie. :tennis:
P.S. - I never knew when I nicknamed Maria Kirilenko Makiri on the Sanex WTA Tour message board about 7 years ago that that nickname would stick and become a well known nickname for her. :yeah: I enjoy reading articles where the writer refers to Maria as Makiri.
She has always been nicknamed Makiri because people think that Masha is for Maria Sharapova but in Russia, all the Maria are nicknamed Masha...I don't like the nickname Makiri, i prefer Kiri or Masha.