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On June 7, 2007, a professional tennis player, Maria Sharapova lost her first French Open semifinal to 19-year-old Ana Ivanovic, who ascended to a 6-2, 6-1 within just 65 minutes. After defeating Schnyder and Anna Chakvetadzke, Maria was defeated by the Ivanovic.

However, the shoulder injury, which caused so much trouble to her French Open build-up, is still a concern. In an interview Maria said that Ana plays pretty similar to Chakvetadze and hits the ball pretty flat and big.

Sharapova has won Grand Slam singles twice. In the final of the 2006 U.S. Open, Maria defeated Justine Henin. In 2004, Maria Sharapova won the Wimbledon Championships after defeating Serena Williams.

The 20-year-old, Sharapova became the first Russian to win Wimbledon Championship. Sharapova reached the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she held three match points against Serena Williams before losing 2-6, 7-5, 8-6.

Sharapova began climbing the ranks in the World Tennis Association (WTA), earning her first tournament title in Japan in 2003. In 2005, Maria failed to win Wimbledon Championship.

Off the court, Sharapova is famous for her good looks and was paid for several commercial endorsements. In August 2005, she was ranked #1 by the WTA for the first time in her professional career.

Maria was the world’s highest-paid female athlete by the end of the year 2006.
In her spare time, Sharapova enjoys dancing, watching movies, reading, listening Russian music and eating Russian food. In 2006, Maria won the Zurich Open.

In 2005, Sharapova was ranked among the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world by People Magazine. In 2006, Maxim magazine named Sharapova the hottest athlete in the world.

Sharapova became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme on February 14, 2007 and also donated US$100,000 to UNDP.

The American actress, Katie Holmes is now back to her work after staying for long at home for the care of her first child who was born on April 18, 2006. Currently, the actress Katie is shooting for the comedy movie “Mad Money.”

On November 18, 2006, the actress Katie was married to sixteen years her senior Cruise in Italy. The film is shooting on location in Shreveport, La and for her baby, Katie turned her trailer into a nursery.

While talking about her daughter, Holmes said that Suri is an active happy baby who’s walking, running and saying “dada” and “mama.”

Recently, Katie told the TV program that she definitely wants to have more kids. In an interview, Holmes even said that her husband Tom Cruise is not having any problem with her love scenes in the movie.

Katie Holmes is starred in a number of movies but is well-known for her roles in the movies such as: The Ice Storm as Libbets Casey, Go as Claire Montgomery, The Gift as Jessica King and Batman Begins as Rachel Dawes.

Cruise did a strong workout to lose some weight, and tone up his body just to impress his wife, Katie. For wife Katie Holmes, Cruise has bought 9858 Square foot home that cost around $30million pound.

Currently, Katie, 28, and Tom, 44 lives in Los Angeles with their daughter Suri and Tom’s two adopted children, Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12. Holmes revealed that enjoys being a stepmother to Tom’s other children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.

In 1999, Katie got her first leading role in the movie “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”. For a wonderful performance in the film “Batman Begins” as Rachel Dawes, Holmes was nominated for the Golden Raspberry award. Same year, Katie won MTV Movie Award for her role in the film “Disturbing Behavior”.

Fans of an American Actress, Keira Knightley can watch her partially nude in the upcoming film “Atonement” directed by Joe Wright. A steamy shot of the actress has been cut from the film just because the producers found it a bit “too rude”.

Keira recently said in an interview that she loves stripping naked in her movies and finds sex scenes “liberating.” There is a hot scene in the movie with her co-star James McAvoy wherein Keira Knightley dives into a deep fountain to get back a broken vase.

Earlier in a number of movies, Keira Knightley has flashed her flesh such as in the movies: “The Jacket,” “Domino” and “The Hole”. The director Joe said that he wanted to cast Keira as a woman, a sexual character and he successfully did it in the movie “Atonement”.

Recently in an interview with the with Elle magazine, Knightly said that she just want to enjoy her life completely and has now even started to concentrate on her weight.

For her superb performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the film “Pride & Prejudice” Keira Knightley was also nominated for the Oscar award. The readers of the Empire magazine have voted her the sexiest movie star of all time.

Keira Knightley is a very good friend of the British actress Sienna Miller. After completing the third “Pirates” movie, Keira revealed in an interview that she wants to keep herself away form the two things that include swords and ruddy big ships for some time.

Currently the actress Keira is filming “The Edge of Love” with her best friend Sienna Miller and other actors include: Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys. Keira has also revealed that she never reads newspapers, because she don’t like the way news are represented to people. Miller and Knightley love to spend a lot of time off-set with each other.