Topic: Suzanne Lenglen
Roger Federer cruised into the French Open last 16 on Friday but the heavyweight clash between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro will finish Saturday, thrillingly poised at a set apiece.Federer, the 2009 champion and playing in his 46th consecutive ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic was reduced to tears on Tuesday wondering what had gone wrong after a first-round defeat at Roland Garros three years after winning the title.The 20th-seeded Serb, who reached top spot in the world ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Former champion Ana Ivanovic slumped to a 7-6 0-6 6-2 first round defeat to unheralded Swede Johanna Larsson at the French Open on Tuesday.The 20th-seeded Serb, who withdrew from last week's Strasbourg International with a wrist injury, lacked ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Last year's finalist Samantha Stosur will be eager to rediscover her touch when she starts her French Open campaign with a first-round match against Czech Iveta Benesova on Sunday.The eighth-seeded Australian will open proceedings on center court in ...
Another french man Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will be playing on the same court against Christophe Rochus from Belgium. On Court Suzanne Lenglen american Andy Roddick will be playing with another french tennis player Marc Gicquel. Number 4 seed Novak Djokovic will be playing ...
The major international championships are in England, France, the USA and Australia. It was the beginning of today's lawn tennis.The All English Croquet Club at Wimbledon, in 1877, had financial problems and couldn't repair their pony roller to keep ...
PARIS (Reuters) - A match-up often seen as a practice session turns deadly serious Sunday when Roger Federer plays close friend and fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka for a place in the quarter-finals of the French Open.The two, who won Swiss gold in ...
Beyond the catcalls, Venus Williams' lingerie tennis dress gives hope to lace industryWhen Grand Slam champion Venus Williams stepped onto a French Open court in a see-through black lace skirt and red bustier, the beleaguered lace industry let out a cheer.Williams ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal will seek to erase his shock fourth-round exit last year from the memory banks when the mighty Mallorcan makes his tournament bow at the French Open on Tuesday.World number two Nadal, who won in Monte Carlo, Rome ...
Jean-Paul Gaultier turned the runway into a lawn tennis court on Wednesday for his spring-summer 2010 collection for the luxury brand Hermes as the Paris ready-to-wear week drew to an end.Despite their sweatbands, his languid girls did not look as if ...
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2009 French Open - Day Seven
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2009 French Open - Day Six
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2009 French Open - Day Two
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