LONDON (AP) — On a chaotic day at Wimbledon when injuries forced seven players to quit, Maria Sharapova managed to play and finish her match. The end result was the same: Sharapova is out of the tournament. In the second major Wimbledon upset in three days, the third-seeded Sharapova was knocked out of the grass-court Grand Slam by a 131st-ranked qualifier. The 2004 Wimbledon champion was stunned 6-3, 6-4 by Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal in the second round. Sharapova slipped and fell several times on the grass on Court 2 and received medical treatment from the trainer in the second set. It wasn't serious enough to force Sharapova to quit, as so many others did Wednesday either by...
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