A female tennis player named Maria winning a first round match
in a Grand Slam tournament is hardly newsworthy. The fact that
it was Maria Kirilenko, a player that has never made a Grand
Slam quarterfinal, is surprising. Her achieving that victory
over former number one player in the world and multi-time Grand
Slam winner Maria Sharapova is shocking.  Sharapova's stunning
loss is the first time she has been defeated in the first round
of a Grand Slam tournament since the 2003 French Open. It also
served as her first loss at the Australian Open since she won
the title in 2008.  Only once in the past year has Sharapova
reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament when she
did so at the French Open last year. She lost in the second
round at Wimbledon and the third round at the US Open after
being ousted by Melanie Oudin.  In the loss to Oudin, she served
21 double faults and made 60 unforced errors. Sharapova faced
similar problems with Kirilenko, making 77 unforced errors.
Included in that are double-di