Sharapova enters Roland Garros final. Neuer unexpectedly injured

* Sharapova enters French Open final

In the semi-finals of the French Open, the 8th seed Maria Sharapova had a very difficult match against Eugine Bouchard. In the first set, the young Canadian played better, she broke Sharapova twice while Masha only broke her opponent's serve once. In this set, Bouchard won 6-4. The second set was also tense and it was not until game 11 that Sharapova took the lead to end the set with a score of 7-5.

Maria Sharapova reaches French Open final

Things got easier in the third set, Bouchard kept making mistakes, while Sharapova also attacked better. She had 9 break points in this set and took advantage of 2 of them to win 6-2. Thus, Sharapova reached the Roland Garros final for the 3rd time in a row. In the previous 2 times, she won 1 championship and lost 1 time.

Sharapova's opponent in the final match was Simona Halep. The Romanian tennis player continued her impressive form in the tournament with a 2-set victory over Andrea Petkovic. The score of the sets was 6-2, 7-6 in favor of Halep. She has not lost a set since the beginning of the tournament. With this victory, Halep reached the final of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.

* Italy and the Netherlands set off for Brazil

The Italian team has left for Brazil to prepare for the 2014 World Cup. There were many fans in Rome to see the players off at the airport. They cheered and encouraged the players and also reminded the team not to repeat the sad performance of 2010, when Italy stopped at the group stage. Recently, the team in blue caused disappointment when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Luxembourg in a friendly match to prepare for the tournament. At this World Cup, Italy fell into a very strong group with the participation of England, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

The Dutch team has also left for Brazil. Many fans of the orange team saw off Louis Van Gaal and his team at Schipol airport. The Dutch are preparing quite well after recently beating Ghana and Wales in friendly matches. In the World Cup group stage, the Dutch are in the same group as Spain, Chile and Australia.

* Neuer's shoulder injury makes Germans worried

The German team will have a friendly match against Armenia before leaving. In the last training session before this friendly, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer did not train with the team because of a shoulder injury. However, coach Joachim Loew still affirmed that he will recover in time for the first match of the German team against Portugal.

Neuer injured his shoulder in training

“Manuel Neuer has been working hard to be able to play again. But we decided to leave him out of this match to avoid any possible risks. In the first match against Portugal, Neuer will be able to play.”

Goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller replaced Neuer in the recent friendly against Cameroon. Meanwhile, midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and captain Philipp Lahm have recovered from injuries and will be available for the match against Armenia.

According to Thethaovanhoa.vn