Sharapova, Williams out of tournament

Third seed Maria Sharapova was knocked out of the Australian Open by Slovak Dominika Cibulkova on January 20, the second major upset in as many days. The Russian, who took a medical timeout between the second and third sets, crashed 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 against the 20th seed in the fourth round to follow Serena Williams out of the tournament. After racing through the first set Sharapova, who has reached eight major finals and won four, with her last success coming at the French Open in 2012, appeared to have a problem with her left buttock. Cibulkova’s shock win set up a quarter-final encounter with either eighth-seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic or Romanian Simona Halep, seeded 11.

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