Russia's Maria Sharapova, the world no.2 meets Czech 25th ranked left handed Lucie Safarova in the second round of the Stuttgart clay court tennis championship Thursday today.
Maria is meeting Safarova for the fourth time in her professional career since she first played against Safarova at Madrid in 2010. Though Sharapova lost her first encounter in the first round of WTA Madrid, she went on to win the two later encounters at Madrid and Tokyo in 2012.
Sharapova has won nine of ten matches she played recently - she last lost to Serena Williams in the final of Miami this year.
Safarova on the other hand has not played well recently as she lost seven of her last ten matches recently, of which three were played on clay.
The match is scheduled for Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:00 GMT
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