By Lauren Lynch
Photo Credit: Mark Howard

(March 28, 2011) 16th seed Maria Sharapova upset 4th seeded Samantha Stosur in the Sony Ericsson Open 4th round. The score was 6-4, 6-1. Sharapova maintained her winning record against Stosur 7-0.

She will play Alexandra Dulgheru match, who took out Shuai Peng 6-3, 6-4.

After suffering a shoulder injury Masha has been able to climb here way back up. She said, "Yeah, my goal has been just to be able to play consistently and being healthy consistently and playing matches. That always really helps, because, you know, you automatically know what to do and feel in certain situations as a match. You don't think twice. Things come a little bit more natural to you.That's something that when you're, you know, away from the game and then you're coming back, it just takes a really long while. Not only am I happy to be back, but I'm really happy to be, little by little, feeling better. With each match, with each different opponent, I feel like I'm coming through. No matter how many losses or wins are ahead of me, I just -- my goal right now is to improve and get better."