Maria Sharapova ready to rock in Australian Open 2013 after Injury

The 1st match of Maria will begin at 11.00 AM local time on Monday 14 Jan that is 5:30 AM on Monday in India. Starting the year with neutral yellow colors, new textured material and unique detailing of the straps. “It was pretty surreal,” Sharapova told Telegraph Sport, “because the next day I took the flight from Paris to Alicante on, like, some Jetstar airline. We were working on certain shapes ahead of the launch, which was coming up in August.

“I am sitting there in Murcia, Spain, which is really in the middle of nowhere and I was thinking, how surreal is this? Anyone else would probably be in St Barth’s right now or St Tropez, living it up.

But I absolutely loved it and I felt so proud that I was able to achieve that win and then go the next day to work on something that is so unique to what I do.”

It's been five years since Maria Sharapova won her first and only Australian Open title. The No. 2-seeded Sharapova will play fellow Russian Olga Puchkova at Rod Laver Arena.