05 September,2009 07:06 AM IST | | AFP
Maria Sharapova can feel her confidence grow and her overall skills returning more every day, serving notice to US Open foes that her shoulder surgery woes are gone.
The 22-year-old Russian beauty took just 73 minutes yesterday to rout US teen Christina McHale 6-2, 6-1, and advance to the third round of a draw suddenly wide open thanks to several seeded upset victims.
"I feel like the belief in the game, the confidence, is coming back," said the former World No 1.
"I served pretty good. I'm playing a lot better than I was when I first got back,"u00a0 added Sharapova, who next meets US teen Melanie Oudin, who upset Russian fourth seed Elena Dementieva.
