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Comeback lifts Sharapova to career Grand Slam

(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

By EDDIE PELLS

AP National Writer

PARIS (AP) On the days when her doctors argued over what was wrong and her right shoulder barked each time she reared back to serve, Maria Sharapova used to ask herself a question.

When is this going to end?

One thing she never questioned was how much she loved tennis.

A three-year comeback that began from the depths of a hard-to-diagnose shoulder injury reached a high point Saturday, when Sharapova walked out of Roland Garros as the French Open champion.

She completed the career Grand Slam with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Sara Errani and picked up the last piece of that puzzle on the red clay.

Updated June 10, 2012

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