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Sharapova out of Dubai with arm injury

An arm injury has forced Maria Sharapova to pull out of the Dubai Championships next week.

Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova (file) has pulled out of the Dubai Championships because of an arm injury.. (AAP)

Maria Sharapova has pulled out of next week's Dubai Championships with an arm injury.

The 30-year-old struggled physically after her comeback from a 15-month doping ban last April, missing two and a half months with a thigh injury and then picking up an arm problem on her return in July.

Sharapova finished last season relatively strongly and began 2018 with a run to the semi-finals in Shenzhen before reaching the third round of the Australian Open, but she was beaten in the first round in Doha on Monday by Romania's Monica Niculescu.


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