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Sharapova plays through pain

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, May 28, 2006

PARIS -- Fourth-seeded Maria Sharapova came into the French Open with lingering questions about the status of a right ankle injury she sustained in practice in Monterey, Mexico in late April and, consequently, also about her match readiness. An MRI exam Friday, in Sharapova's words, showed a "bad" bone bruise with "a lot of fluid." She had not played a tour match since falling in the Nasdaq-100 Open final in Miami to Svetlana Kuznetsova on April 1. What she won't exit her first-round match wi ...

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