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It was a undesirable day on the clay for Maria Sharapova as she was bounced out of the Rome Masters by Ana Ivanovic, Thursday. It was the 1st time any person other than planet No.one Serena Williams experienced beaten the Russian on the purple stuff since the 2011 French Open. Sharapova experienced been tuning up for this year's grand slam at Roland Garros in fantastic fettle, winning tournaments in Stuttgart and Madrid, but Ivanovic stormed to 6-one six-four victory to stop her run in the 3rd round of the Rome occasion. "My energy amount nowadays probably was not the greatest," Sharapova told reporters in Rome. "But Ana played a really excellent match, she came out with winners from all more than the courtroom and she was the much better participant. "This can not get something absent from the last two weeks and I am fairly thrilled for the 7 days coming up for the grand slam." Great match right now men! Thank you for all your messages. Really proud of all the efforts. Hunting forward to tomorrow's match #ajde ????#rome〞 Ana Ivanovic (@AnaIvanovic) May possibly 15, 2014 Ivanovic, the Serbian 2008 French Open winner, experienced missing her last 7 matches in opposition to Sharapova. Australian Open up winner Li Na ticked off a six-3 6-1 earn more than Sam Stosur while Serena Williams beat fellow American Varvarato Lepchenko to also advance to the last 8. Read through: New dad Federer defeated in Rome In the men's draw, Tommy Haas claimed a massive acquire above Australian Open up champion Stan Wawrinka. It was the 36-yr-outdated German's initial best-ten get in more than a calendar year. Wawrinka, the planet No.3, said the upset would make no difference to his preparations for this month's French Open. "I am not targeted on successful the French Open, it's so considerably away and there are so numerous players completely ready to acquire," he explained. "I know if I am prepared, feeling very good and my degree is there to acquire a lot of matches but I don't assume to get the French Open up. Maria Sharapova's style for company In the footsteps of 'Grand Slam Stan' "There's Rafa, you have Novak, Roger is heading to be ready and match. I need to concentrate on myself, on the attract, and to be prepared." The eight-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal finds himself conference outdated rival Andy Murray in the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters. Murray celebrated his twenty seventh birthday with victory above Jurgen Melzer while Nadal cruised past Mikhail Youzhny. The Wimbledon champion revealed minimal-important birthday celebrations before turning his feelings to his initial meeting with Nadal given that 2011. "I have had two playing cards and two cakes, but no provides or anything at all," said Murray. "I'm hoping when I go residence there will be some. If there just isn't a few I will be rather unhappy. "It will not be a poor issue to play against Nadal. I have not played him for perhaps three a long time. "With the French Open and Wimbledon coming up I haven't practiced with him rarely at all either, so I would be quite intrigued to play in opposition to him before to see how his sport has altered.