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Maria Sharapova wins her first French Open crown and completes a career grand slam


Women’s tennis finally has a bona fide superstar as its number one.

She’s Maria Sharapova who not only won the French Open singles trophy on Saturday, she also completed a rare career grand slam.

Sharapova’s 2012 French Open victory follows her wins at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open.

She joins Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King, Margaret Court and Serena Williams as winners of the career Slam in the Open era. She’ll return to the No. 1 ranking on Monday for the first time since 2008.

“It probably is the most special moment in my career,” Sharapova told NBC after the match. “When I looked at that trophy today, I never felt this happy. It’s really incredible.”

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  1. Good for Maria! She worked very hard on her least favorite surface and deserves the win. Having said that Sara impressed me more. She beat Li(defending champion), Kuznetsova(2009 Champion), Kerber(#9 in the world as of Monday), Sam Stosur(2010 runner up)to get to the single final AND won the womens doubles the day before with Roberta Vinci. She’s also risen from 38 last year to the newly minted # 10 in the world.

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