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...I found myself derailed by the bizarre view of courtside coaching in which the coach is attached to a microphone so that the TV audience can hear his every word. And what I saw in Maria Sharapova was a player who seemed utterly humiliated by the experience. The humiliation started yesterday in the match against Kleybanova. The coach mentioned to Maria that he knew that her arm was tired but t…