[tennis] Sharapova Loses to Dementieva in Final

Maria Sharapova's run in the Roger's Cup came to a halt at the final stop when she lost to country mate Elena Dementieva in the final. Sharapova, ranked 49 before this week, lost the final in straight sets after putting on a brave fight to the world no 4. Dementieva won the match of the Russians 6-4, 6-3.
The highly competitive first set saw more number of services being broken then held. Of the 10 games Sharapova was broken 4 times while breaking her opponetns service thrice. Finally, Dementieva got the decisive break when at 4-4 to  go up 5-4. And then she saved a few more break points to reatin the service game and the set.
The second set saw the resistance of Sharapova breaking down and the only break of the game was in her serve and she lost the set 3-6 and thus conceding the title.
This was Dementieva's 3rd title this year and overall the count rose to 14 while Sharapova was vying for her first title this year. The loss in final helped Sharapova improve her rankings by 19 positions to get to 30 in the new week.