And here the champion is back! Defeating Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-3, Russian Maria Sharapova has reached her first French Open final on Thursday, reclaiming the world number one ranking and moving one win away from a career Grand Slam.

Earlier the Russian second seed, reached in the semifinals in Paris twice, first in 2007 and later in 2011 and now she will tackle Italian 21st seed Sara Errani in Saturday's final, the first meeting between the two players.

"It's an amazing feeling to be in my first final. I have been in two semifinals but it was always my dream of getting to the final stage. That's pretty special. After my shoulder surgery, my ranking was out of the 100 in the world, but I thought if I could be number one in the world before that then I could do it again," said Sharapova, who will take the number one spot for the first time since 2008.

Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open champion, will become just the 10th woman to complete a career Grand Slam if she takes Saturday's final. But she admitted she is in for a tough contest against Errani, who defeated Australian sixth seed Samantha Stosur earlier Thursday to reach her first major final.

Our good wishes are with you Sharapova and we hope that you emerge out as real champion yet again!

Source: TNN