The five-time Grand Slam victor and former world No. 1 returns to competition from a doping ban next week as a wild card in Stuttgart's Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
I think it's very questionable, allowing a player that is still banned to play a tournament that week. But I don't know about the players.
She was even given a Wednesday start as that's the day her ban - imposed for testing positive for meldonium at last year's Australian Open - comes to an end.
"For the kids, for the young players, it is not OK to help with a wild card the player that was banned for doping", said the fifth-ranked Halep, adding that "it is not about Maria Sharapova here, but it is about all the players that are found doped". "It's also odd for the players, that she can walk on site on Wednesday and she can play on Wednesday". "She paid for her mistakes", Vinci said on Monday.
Her impending return has caused a divide in the tennis world with certain players and ex players ready to welcome her back while others believe she does not deserve the wild cards and should work her way back.
Far from being remorseful, Sharapova recently hit out at tennis authorities for failing to give her sufficient warning that meldonium had become a banned substance.
Sharapova's prospective second-round clash in Stuttgart against Poland's Radwanska could be an awkward encounter. I am preparing all in the same way as (for) other tournaments.
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"Not for those suspended for doping".
Besides Stuttgart, Sharapova has also been handed a free passage into the main draws at Madrid and Rome in May, but organizers of the French Open have yet to decide about an invitation for the Russian.
"All those are "journeymen" players like Radwanska and Wozniacki who have never won a Slam and the next generation passing them".
"They are smart to try to keep Maria out of Paris". "If they think having big names there is going to sell more seats, then they're going to do that". German player Angelique Kerber has expressed her misunderstanding by saying that "This is all over a unusual situation".
Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci, who will be the first player to stand across the net from Maria Sharapova in 15 months come Wednesday (April 25), has weighed in on the wild-card debate surrounding the Russian. It's normal that people talk about her, she's an enormous champion, but from there to promoting her return to such an extent.
"It's also odd for the players, that she can walk on site on Wednesday and she can play on Wednesday". Cibulkova pulled out of the event with a right wrist injury.
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