AFP, Stuttgart :
Maria S0″cheater” claims on Thursday, telling the Canadian that she is “way above” getting into a slanging match over her controversial comeback.
Bouchard, long seen as the Russian’s heir in the sport’s marketability stakes, had attacked Sharapova over her return from a drugs ban and suggested the former world number one should be kicked out of tennis for life.
But after reaching the Stuttgart quarter-finals on Thursday on her return from a 15-month suspension, Sharapova attempted to put Bouchard in her place.
“I don’t have anything to say-I am way above that,” she told reporters when asked to respond to Bouchard’s comments after seeing off fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-1 in Stuttgart.
Bouchard said the Women’s Tennis Association was sending the wrong message in allowing the five-time Grand Slam-winner to come back from her ban.
