But Sharapova, the 2006 United States Open champion, steadily returned to previous form, returning to the No. 1 ranking and completing the career Grand Slam by winning the French Open last year.
A brilliant flurry of forehands saw the Swiss accelerate past Ferrer with a love break in game 10 that secured the set, and the 17-time Grand Slam champion steadily improved his game from then on.
Mesa Verde, which included men's champion Ryan Gale and women's champion Madelaine Campbell, steadily climbed into contention with a five-under back nine highlighted by Sargent's chip-in for birdie from behind the 14th green.
After a first session in which the scores were tied, the world champions forged ahead steadily and won by 79 inter national match points, 194 to 115.
Assertively pious and aggressively entrepreneurial, this new class, championed by Mr Erdogan, has been steadily chipping away at the economic and political power of the secular elite.
Once the Conservatives championed the property-owning democracy: now owner-occupation is steadily falling.
On the contrary, he championed notions that had percolated in Wilhelmine Germany and had been steadily gaining credence in intellectual and bourgeois circles.
But since the passage of the law -- championed by the Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, and his wife, Sylviane Agacinski, a professor -- the idea has steadily grown in popularity.
Mr. Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat who turned Republican, has been steadily criticized by citizens angered by the higher property taxes and more restrictive smoking laws he has championed.
Championed by a coterie of music critics and disc jockeys, Ms. McCorkle built a modest but solid career, recording several more albums for small labels and eventually landing on Concord Jazz, for which she recorded steadily over the next decade.
The first is that Britain's financial regulators are growing steadily more vehement in championing customers' causes.
