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Serena Williams or Jelena Jankovic to lift Henin's French Open crown 2008-05-26 11:04:18 Serena Williams
or Jelena
Jankovic to lift Henin's French
Open crown
"Things have been looking pretty awesome for Serena since her shock defeat by Jankovic in the quarters of the Aussie Open"
You also can’t rule out Serena's big sister Venus - but there are so many girls in with a chance that the Roland Garros tournament promises to be the most open in years.
Tests of will, courage Read more:Serena
, Serena Williams
Jelena Jankovic digs deep to reach second round 2008-05-26 10:56:42 Jelena Jankovic digs deep to reach second round
Serbian Jelena Jankovic battled into the second round of the French Open with a 7-6 6-2 win over Romania’s Monica Niculescu on Monday.
Jankovic, seeded third, will meet either Italian Tathiana Garbin or New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic.
There were six breaks of serve in a scrappy opening set and, despite taking a 3-0 lead, Jankovic was forced to Read more:Jelena
One-on-one with Alizé Cornet in Roland Garros 2008-05-26 10:39:43 One-on-one with Alizé Cornet in Roland
Garros
By Eric Frosio
Favourite win
My first match at Roland Garros in 2005. It was fantastic as it meant that I played Amélie Mauresmo in the next round on the centre court. A great memory.
Worst defeat
I was playing in a small tournament in Morocco and I lost to a Canadian player after I had four match points. It was horrible but I let myself be beaten
Ashley Harkleroad to be in Playboy magazine 2008-05-26 06:38:46 Ashley Harkleroad to be in Playboy magazine
We told you yesterday that Ashley Harkleroad has made a photoshoot in Playboy Magazine... it looks like it got lot of atention and Ashley was asked about it ... check out what Harkleroad said on her press conference after losing to Serena Williams...
Ashley Harkleroad, the 61st-ranked American who lost to Serena Williams 6-2, 6-1 on Sunday in the Read more:Ashley
Ana Ivanovic's Roland Garros Interview - First Round 2008-05-25 23:09:01 Ana Ivanovic
's Roland
Garros Interview - First
Round
Ana Ivanovic won today her first round match in 2 sets... let's find out what Ana said after the match...
Q. So what can you say about your first match here, and more specifically about the second set? It was a little bit harder.
ANA IVANOVIC: Yes. First of all, I'm very happy with the victory. It was very nice to come back here to Paris
Serena Williams hammers Harkleroad in Paris 2008-05-25 21:52:00 Serena Williams
hammers Harkleroad in Paris
Fifth seed Serena Williams
, the only former champion in the women’s draw, cruised into the French Open second round amid the evening gloom at Roland Garros after an easy win over fellow American Ashley Harkleroad.
Williams, the 2002 champion, was broken in her opening service game but reeled off 12 games out of 13 to win 6-2 6-1 in 76 minutes on Read more:Serena
Watch Roland Garros Tennis Live Online and Free Video Streaming 2008-05-25 21:06:58 Watch Roland
Garros Tennis
Live Online and Free Video Streaming
Monday 5/26
04:30am ET to 14:30 ET
Roland Garros - French Open
Link
11:30am ET
Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
Tennis Channel Will be also show 4 courts... I read some persons are not able to watch it there but here is the link just in case... I can watch it perfectly
Link
Ana Ivanovic Diary - Early start / May 24, 2008 2008-05-25 18:44:09 Ana IvanovicDiary
- Early
start / May 24, 2008
Ana Ivanovic blogged from Paris before her first match in Roland Garros (She won in 2 sets) check out what she said to her fans...
Ana Ivanovic Blog post:
I had a funny feeling I would play the first match on Sunday, and that’s how it’s turned out. It will be a new experience for me, starting a Grand Slam on a Sunday.
I’ve been practising w
French Open: First Round Begins in Paris 2008-05-25 17:25:01 French Open: First
Round Begins in Paris
The Sunday start at Roland Garros provided some drama but for the most part the favorites had a successful day, as first round action began on the terre battue of the second Grand Slam event of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour season.
Two of the seven seeds in action weren't still standing at the end of the day, most notably No.15 seed Nicole Vaidisova, who Read more:French
Video: Caroline Wozniacki: Favorite Photo 2008-05-25 16:25:28 Video: Caroline
Wozniacki: FavoritePhoto
Danish teen Caroline Wozniacki shows us the favorite photo on her mobile phone and talks about how she keeps in touch with family and friends while on the road.
Ana Ivanovic: Statuesque Serb who dodged Belgrade bombs says there will be no repeat of Paris meltdown 2008-05-25 15:14:02 Ana Ivanovic
: Statuesque Serb who dodged Belgrade
bombs says there will be no repeat of Paris
meltdown
It is almost a year now since the statuesque Serb Ana Ivanovic took an early lead over Justine Henin in the Roland Garros final, only to fall apart in embarrassingly spectacular fashion. Twelve months on, with the shock waves of Henin's recent abandonment of her career still lapping at the
Ashley Harkleroad In Playboy Magazine 2008-05-25 14:47:09 Ashley Harkleroad In Playboy Magazine
According to tennis Week Ashley Harkleroad, 23 yearls old from Georgia USA, has participated in a photo shoot in Los Angeles for Playboy Magazine. The photo shoot was made in several days and it will appear in a sports-themed issue of the Playboy magazine which will go on sale later this summer.
Ashley Harkleroad lost a few hours ago to serena Williams in Read more:Ashley
Jelena Jankovic Blog: It's time for Paris 2008-05-25 14:18:01 Jelena Jankovic Blog: It's time for Paris
jelena jankovic left a new post on her blog for her fans... check it out...
Hello my best fans,
I know I keep apologizing every time for not writing in a time manner, but since the tournament in Rome, I have not had a chance to seat down and relax. It�s all about preparing for the Grand Slam next week. I came home to Belgrade on Monday, and starting Read more:Jelena
Roland Garros Sunday Results and 5/26 Order of Play 2008-05-25 14:17:30 Roland Garros Sunday
Results and 5/26 Order
of Play
The French Open officially began today and and 2 seeded players were upset.
Nicole Vaidisova, 15th seed, continues her losing strike , this time she lost to Iveta Benesova, who got inot the main draw after winning 3 qualy matches.
Virginie Razzano, from France and 24th seed, failed to raising Klara Zakopalova in 3 sets.
Ana Ivanovic, 2nd Read more:Roland
Roland Garros Doubles Main Draw 2008-05-25 11:05:24 Roland Garros Doubles
Main Draw
The French Open Doubles Main Draw has been released today and the top pair is:
Black/Huber, they will meet Jans/Jugic-Salkic in their first stop to the title.
The second seeds are Srebotnik/Sugiyama , who had a great year so far and will try to take the Roland Garros title, they will start their doubles campain against Craybas/Wozniacki.
Other seeded teams Read more:Roland
Golden girl Ana Ivanovic into French tennis Open second round 2008-05-25 09:06:43 Golden girl Ana Ivanovic
into French
tennis Open second round
Ana Ivanovic, who crumbled to defeat in the 2007 Roland Garros final, took a first nervous step towards erasing that heartbreaking memory on Sunday when she reached the French Open second round.
The second seed saw off Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 7-5 and will now face the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova for a place in the third Read more:Golden
Iveta Benesova dumps Nicole Vaidisova in first round 2008-05-25 08:55:19 Iveta Benesova dumps Nicole Vaidisova in first round
By Pritha Sarkar
Former semi-finalist Nicole Vaidisova failed to snap her wretched run of form when she became the first seeded casualty at the French Open, beaten 7-6 6-1 by friend and fellow Czech Iveta Benesova in the first round on Sunday.
The 15th seed, who reached the last four two years ago, failed to get going in the second set and,
Anabel Medina Garrigues Wins Third Career Strasbourg Crown 2008-05-25 08:44:09 Anabel Medina
Garrigues Wins Third Career
Strasbourg Crown
Anabel Medina Garrigues was previously known for being the queen of Palermo, winning that clay court title in four of six attempts; now she's building that same royal reputation on the clay of Strasbourg, winning her third title in five attempts there on Saturday with a nail-biting final victory over Katarina Srebotnik.
Medina
Amelie Mauresmo feeling relaxed 2008-05-25 08:12:26 Amelie Mauresmo
feeling relaxed
Local favourite Amelie Mauresmo says she will not be feeling any pressure at the French Open.
Mauresmo has fallen to 24th in the world rankings after going 15 months without a tournament victory.
The former world number one has habitually underachieved at the French Open, failing to live up to the expectations of the Paris crowd.
However, she believes her
"Old lady" Serena Williams out to beat the kids at French Open 2008-05-25 07:56:38 "Old lady" SerenaWilliams
out to beat the kids at French
Open
by Allan Kelly
All the talk is of the new generation - Maria Sharapova or Ana Ivanovic - to win the French Open and replace the freshly-retired Justine Henin as world No.1.
But the "veteran" Serena Williams
believes this could be the year she adds a second Roland Garros crown to the one she won in the final again
Watch Roland Garros Tennis Live Online and Free Video Streaming 2008-05-25 05:37:54 Watch Roland
Garros Tennis
Live Online and Free Video Streaming
Sunday 5/25
04:30am ET to 14:30 ET
Roland Garros - French Open
Link
11:30am ET
Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
Tennis Channel Will be also show 4 courts... I read some persons are not able to watch it there but here is the link just in case... I can watch it perfectly
Link
Back at Roland Garros, retired Justine Henin rules out comeback 2008-05-25 01:30:01 Back at Roland
Garros, retired Justine Henin rules out comeback
By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Tennis Writer
Justine Henin is certain that she’s done playing tennis.
“I don’t think I will ever come back. I think that it’s important just to move on,” Henin said at Roland Garros on Saturday, the day before the French Open starts.
Earlier this month, she became the first woman to retire while
Video Jelena Jankovic Interview May 2008 2008-05-24 20:58:32 Video Jelena
Jankovic Interview May 2008
I just made this video with some photos of Jelena and an audio interview I had... the sound is low so you will have to turn up your speakers but I hope you like it ;)
Maria Sharapova: I’ve nothing to prove 2008-05-24 20:57:00 Maria Sharapova
: I’ve nothing to prove
By Steve Douglas - PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer
Maria Sharapova
maintains she is not obsessed with completing the Grand Slam of major titles at this year’s French Open.
With Justine Henin, the champion in Paris the previous three years, now retired and out of the picture, Sharapova has a great chance to finally add the Roland Garros crown to her Read more:Maria
Missing Justine Henin casts Paris shadow 2008-05-24 18:31:02 Missing Justine Henin casts Paris
shadow
Neil Harman, Tennis correspondent
There is going to be something missing, of course there is. Justine Henin will be at Roland Garros today to shake hands, shed tears and seek to explain to an international gathering what she has faced up to in Belgium, her home country - that the spark has gone.
Martina Navratilova, who finished playing at 49, said she Read more:Missing
Roland Garros Tuesday Results and 5/28 Order of Play 2008-05-27 15:20:24 Roland Garros Tuesday
Results and 5/28 Order
of Play
Another day full with rain at Roland Garros.
Only 7 matches on the womens die were completed today, 28 matches were posponed and 2 were suspended and they will end it tomorrow.
Five seeded players were in action today and all of them made it to the second round.
Svetlana Kuznetsova, 4th seed, had no troubles against Aiko Nakamura and got Read more:Roland
Amelie Mauresmo advances at French Open 2008-05-27 13:12:28 Amelie Mauresmo
advances at French
Open
By CHRIS LEHOURITES, AP Sports Writer
Amelie Mauresmo held her nerve and her serve when it counted Tuesday, reaching the second round of the French Open by beating Olga Savchuk 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 in a match disrupted by rain.
Mauresmo, who missed both the Italian and German Opens because of a rib injury, looked shaky much of her time on center court.
“The
Maria Sharapova visits Tiffany’s Paris store 2008-05-27 10:51:28 Maria Sharapova
visits Tiffany
’s Paris
store
Tennis star Maria Sharapova
wearing the 18k gold Wave earrings by Elsa Peretti that she will wear in the 2008 French Open, with the “Paris dress,” designed exclusively for her by Nike and fastened with a luminous Tiffany pearl.
Photographed at Tiffany’s Paris store.
Article and photo from Maria Sharapova's Official Website - Here Read more:Maria
Svetlana Kuznetsova bludgeons way past Japan’s Nakamura at the French Open 2008-05-27 08:49:17 Svetlana Kuznetsova bludgeons way past Japan
’s Nakamura
at the French
Open
Fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova wasted little time after a lengthy rain delay at the French Open and swept aside Japan’s Aiko Nakamura in their first-round clash on Tuesday.
Left to wait almost three hours before the rain ceased, Kuznetsova hit the ground running and pounded her opponent 6-2 6-3 in just an hour and fo
Justine Henin’s retirement offers Jelena Jankovic new hope 2008-05-27 08:26:55 Justine Henin’s retirement
offers Jelena
Jankovic new hope
By Pritha Sarkar
If anyone was pleased to see the back of Justine Henin, it was Jelena Jankovic.
The Serb faced Henin across the net nine times and each time she emerged as the loser.
With two of those defeats being in grand slam semi-finals, including at the French Open 12 months ago, Jankovic believes her time to shine on the big
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