The 2014 Maria Sharapova tennis season officially began on 30 December 2013 with the start of the 2014 WTA Tour.
 Sharapova began the season, having only played one match since the previous June due to a shoulder injury, at the Brisbane International.
 After failing to defend her points during the winter and spring hard court season, Sharapova almost dropped out of the Top 10.
 She rebounded by dominating the clay court season which saw her win Stuttgart, Madrid and the French Open.
 Her only loss on clay came to a resurgent Ana Ivanovic.
 She then won her first hard court title since the 2013 BNP Paribas Open at the China Open.
 Her season ended on 24 October 2014 following her elimination from the round robin stage at the 2014 WTA Finals in Singapore.
 She ended the year raned No. 2 behind Serena Williams.
István Gulyás (Hungarian: "Gulyás István" ; 13 October 1931 – 31 July 2000) was the second Hungarian tennis player to become a Grand Slam finalist.
 He was defeated in the 1966 French Open Men's final by Tony Roche of Australia in three sets, after allowing the match to be delayed 24 hours to allow Roche to recover from an ankle injury.
 It was Gulyas' lone Grand Slam final, though he made the semi-finals of the tournament the following year (and the quarter-finals in 1971).
 He was ranked inside the world's Top 10 on more than one occasion and holds the record for most Hungarian National Championship titles having won it 15 times in his career.
 Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph ranked Gulyás as World No. 8 in 1966.
The 1976 New South Wales Open, also known by its sponsored name Marlboro New South Wales Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
 The men's was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix circuit.
 It was the 84th edition of the event and was held from 26 December 1976 through 1 January 1977.
 The singles titles were won by Kerry Reid and 33-year-old Tony Roche.
 It was Roche's fourth singles title after 1967, 1969 and 1974.
 Roche won AUS$13,500 first-prize money while Reid's title was rewarded with AUS$5,000 prize money.
Marta Domachowska (; born 16 January 1986 in Warsaw) is a Polish retired professional tennis player ranked World No. 37 in singles (2006) and World No. 62 in doubles (2006).
 She reached 2008 Australian Open fourth round in singles and won 2006 Canberra International in doubles with Roberta Vinci.
 She also reached three WTA Tour singles finals at 2004 Hansol Korea Open (lost to Maria Sharapova), 2005 Internationaux de Strasbourg (lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues) and 2006 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships (lost to Sofia Arvidsson).
 She was 2003 Australian Open finalist in girls' singles, represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was member of Poland Fed Cup team.
 Domachowska was the best female Polish tennis player after Magdalena Grzybowska's retirement and before Agnieszka Radwańska's successes.
Anthony Dalton Roche, AO MBE (born 17 May 1945) is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta.
 He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga.
 He won one Grand Slam singles title and thirteen Grand Slam doubles titles, and was ranked as high as World No. 2 by Lance Tingay of "The Daily Telegraph" in 1969.
 He also coached multi-Grand Slam winning World No. 1s, Ivan Lendl, Patrick Rafter, Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and former World No. 4, Jelena Dokic.
The 2008 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles was the singles event of the 2008 Bausch & Lomb Championships, a WTA Tier II tennis tournament held in April.
 Tatiana Golovin was the defending champion, but withdrew from this year's event with injury.
 Maria Sharapova defeated Dominika Cibulková in the final to become the 2008 champion.
 This was Sharapova's 19th career singles title but the first she had won on clay courts.
Tatiana Golovin (Russian: Татья́на Григорьевна Голови́на , "Tatyana Grigoryevna Golovina" ; born 25 January 1988) is a Russian-born French retired professional tennis player.
 She won the 2004 French Open mixed doubles event with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 US Open, losing to the eventual champion Maria Sharapova.
 Her highest singles ranking to date is 12.
 In 2008, she was diagnosed with lower back inflammation and was forced to stop playing competitive tennis indefinitely.
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова ; ] ; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.
 A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001.
 She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks.
 She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam.
 She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
This is a list of the main career statistics of professional Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova.
 To date, Sharapova has won thirty five WTA singles titles including five Grand Slams, one year-ending championship, six WTA Tier I singles titles, three WTA Premier Mandatory singles titles and five WTA Premier 5 singles titles.
 She was also the silver medallist in singles at the 2012 London Olympics.
Rossana de los Ríos (born 16 September 1975) is a retired professional tennis player from Paraguay.
 She was born in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, and now lives in Miami, USA, with her daughter Ana Paula Neffa de los Ríos and her husband Gustavo Neffa, a retired Paraguayan Association football player who played for Boca Juniors.
 Rossana achieved a career high singles ranking of No. 51 on 12 September 2001, and No. 52 in doubles on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.
 De los Ríos played doubles with Grand Slam champions such as Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, as well as Jelena Janković and Dinara Safina.
 Rossana is also a former world number one Junior player, having won the 1992 Roland Garros Juniors event.
 De los Ríos participated in six editions (1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2010) of the Australian Open.
 She was the only female tennis representative for Paraguay in the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games.

Question: Which champion tennis player is older, Maria Sharapova or Tony Roche?
Answer: Anthony Dalton Roche