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Paris, France (Sports Network) - Russian superstar Maria Sharapova will face diminutive Italian Sara Errani in Saturdays ladies final at the 2012 French Open. The fellow 25-year-olds will meet for the first time in their careers. The second-seeded three-time major champion Sharapova, who will be become the new No. 1 player in the world on Monday, will appear in her first French Open final and is a Saturday victory away from completing a career Grand Slam. She would become the 10th woman in history to capture a career Slam with a win. The tall Russian will appear in her third Grand Slam final at the last four majors. She lost to Petra Kvitova in last years Wimbledon finale and succumbed to current No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in Januarys Aussie championship match. Sharapova defeated Kvitova in the semifinals here in Paris on Thursday. Sharapova is 26-16 in her career finals, including a 2-3 record this year. She titled on clay in Stuttgart and Rome and has been a runner-up at the Aussie Open, Indian Wells and Miami this season. The 6-foot-2 stalwart is 3-3 in her career Grand Slam finals, with the victories coming at Wimbledon in 2004, the 2006 U.S. Open and 2008 Aussie Open. Sharapova is a surprising 17-1 on clay this year. The 21st-seeded Errani, meanwhile, has beaten top-10 women in her last two outings, this after going winless in her first 28 matches against top-10 competition. She topped 2010 French Open runner-up Sam Stosur on Thursday, and surprised world No. 10 German Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals. Errani, who is 24-3 on clay this year, will appear in her first-ever Grand Slam final and gives Italy a finalist at Roland Garros for a third straight year. Francesca Schiavone upset Stosur in the 2010 final and Schiavone lost to Chinas Li Na in last years title match at the worlds lone clay-court major. The 5-foot-4 Errani, who already owns three clay-court titles this season, beat a pair of former French Open champs in Ana Ivanovic (2008) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (2009) in the third and fourth round here, respectively. Errani had never made it past the third round at any of her first 17 Grand Slam events before reaching the quarterfinals at the Aussie Open back in January. The gritty Errani, who captured the 2012 French Open womens doubles title alongside fellow Italian Roberta Vinci on Friday, will appear in her ninth career WTA singles final (5-3) and fourth title match of 2012 (3-0). She authored wins in Acapulco, Barcelona and Budapest this season -- all on clay. This years first-time French Open champ will pocket $1.5 million. jerseys from china . Goodrow scored a pair of goals and Miller had the eventual power-play winner late in the second period as Brampton doubled the Sudbury Wolves 4-2 in Ontario Hockey League play. wholesale jerseys . -- The New England Patriots have placed the franchise tag on Wes Welker, the receiver who caught more passes than anyone else in the NFL last season but couldnt come down with one that might have clinched a Super Bowl victory. http://www.chinawholesalejerseysnfl.com/ . Williams beat 2011 French Open champion Li Na of China 7-6 (1), 6-3 for her second win in round-robin matches to seal a semifinal spot at the tournament for the top eight players in the world. cheap jerseys . The third-ranked Spaniard withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Tendinitis has kept him out of action since his stunning loss at Wimbledon in late June. nfl jerseys china . Louis. If Toronto has any hope at all of challenging for a spot in the postseason, they must, in very short order, become a far superior defensive team to the one that took the ice a year ago.WASHINGTON -- First baseman Adam LaRoche and left-handed reliever Sean Burnett are free agents after voiding mutual options in their contracts with the Washington Nationals. LaRoche bypassed a $10 million option for 2013, while Burnett would have earned $3.5 million next season under his old deal. The Nationals still could sign bothh players, who can have a chance to test the free-agent market.dddddddddddd LaRoches 33 homers and 100 RBIs helped the Nationals win their first NL East division title this season, and he collected his first Gold Glove this week. Burnett went 1-2 with a 2.38 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 56 2-3 innings over 70 appearances in 2012. ' ' '
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