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Serena Williams

lost to Katarina Srebotnik, 6-4, 6-4, in the the round at the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris.

The loss of Serena Williams insures that whoever wins this year’s French Open will be a new winner to the tournament. Williams won the French Open in 2002.

“I missed a lot of easy shots and a lot of key points that I felt like could have turned the match around,” Williams said. “I wasn’t able to capitalize.”

Rafael Nadal

defeated Wayne Odesnik, leaving the only American now left, Robby Ginepri, to put up a good fight for his country.

Top seeded Maria Sharapova and No 2. Ana Ivanovic advanced to the next round of the French Open. Sharapova beat American Bethanie Mattek 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, while Ivanovic defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-1.

Serena Williams

, earned the biggest victory of her career. She has only one win over a player ranked higher than the No. 5-ranked Williams, beating No. 4 Amelie Mauresmo at Zurich in 2005.

Williams did not play like a world class player. An overhead cost her in the sixth game of the second set, thus assisting Srebotnik to reach 3-3.

“I wasn’t nervous,” Williams said. “She was getting a lot of balls back, and I might have let that get into my head. She was just making some shots I don’t think she’s ever made before, or she probably would be in the top two.”

When Williams started falling behind, she tried to make a comeback, making grunting sounds with every shot, and screaming in celebration everytime she won a point. But she was unable to make a full comeback to win the game.

“Today I woke up and it was just another opportunity,” Srebotnik said. “This is what you work so hard for—to be in third round where you play Serena or someone like that and you have really nothing to lose.”

“That was the rhythm that I was trying … to get her on a wrong foot and stuff like that,” Srebotnik said. “When she’s serving well, she’s very tough, but once I got in the rally I had no problem playing her.”

Serena Williams

Lindsay Davenport, who is a previous World No. 1, has pulled out of the French Open 2008. Out of all the Grand Slam singles , the French Open is the only event that she has not won.

On Tuesday is was stated by the Tournament organizers that the American withdrew for “personal reasons”.

Meghann Shaughnessy and Meilen Tu are two other Americans who also pulled out of the The French Open 2008 due to an injury to her left knee, and a left hip injury respectively.

Davenport’s best performance on the Paris clay-court came when she reached the semifinals in 1998—the same year she won the US Open singles title. The next year she won Wimbledon and the 2000 Australian Open.

Davenport won the French Open doubles title with Mary Joe Fernandez in 1996.

The French Open 2008 will begin on Sunday.

Mauresmo withdraws from German Open

Amelia Mauresmo has been battling with a ribcage injury for some time now and was forced to withdraw from the German Open on Monday. It seems Mauresmo has been so unlucky with injuries especially last season as she missed alot of action and we all know what she is capable of having won Wimbledon 2006 and the Australian Open.

Amelia Mauresmo was due to play compatriot Aravane Rezai on Tuesday.

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Shahar Peer fails to perfrom at Qatar Telecom

Shahar Peer, ranked no. 18 in the world, lost 7-5 6-1 to rising star Sabine Lisicki and what was a disappointing performance by Peer as she seemed so dominant after winning the quarter finals last week in prague.

Peer looked good in the beginning of the match as she went up 4-2 in the 1st set but Lisicki who is know as the comeback queen (beating Davenport recently) showed what she is made of!

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Tennis News from around the World

Nicolas Almagro had a cracker of a game against wild card Flavio Cipolla winning 6-1 6-3 in just 58 minutes. He will next play David Nalbandian who is ranked seventh in the world, should be a classic game!

Fabrice Santoro went 6-4 6-2 down to Itallian Stallion Andreas Seppi and will face James Blake in the next round.

Andy Roddick will face his compatriot Mardy Fish after Fish won a rider of a game against Michael Llodra (7-5 3-6 7-6 (7/2))

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Gasquet Out of Rome Masters

Richard Gasquet’s dream of winning the Rome Masters was suddenly destroyed in the 1st round of the Rome Masters on Monday when he lost 6-4 6-1 to Peruvian qualifier Luis Horna. Some would say it was fate, as Richard Gasquet committed 27 unforced errors and 4 double faults.. you cant really win a match with that style of play. The 21 year old has not been up to form this year, so let’s hope Richard’s game improves with the next tournament.

Andy Murray Progresses, While Del Porto Strikes Injury in Rome Masters

Andy Murray has made it to the 2nd round of the Rome Masters. Juan Martin Del Porto, his opponent, ended play in the deciding 3rd set due to back injury. The Argentinian had just been broken to go 1-0 down, when he realized his back was giving him problems and he could not carry on with the match.

It was no doubt Del Porto was in serious pain and while he was close to tears, he managed to keep his cool. 5 min after treatment from his trainer, he admitted defeat. Del Porto, rank no. 17th in the world, took the 1st set 7-5, while Murray made a comeback in the 2nd set winning 6-4.

Murray will play Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round of the Rome Masters

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FEZ, Morocco (AP)— Second-seeded Gisela Dulko beat Emilie Loit 6-3, 6-2 yesterday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem.

Gisela Dulko will play seventh-seeded Sorana Cirstea, who beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-2.

Alisa Kleybanova defeated Arina Rodionova 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4.

Kleybanova plays fourth-seeded Aravane Rezai, who defeated Rossana De Los Rios 7-6 (2), 6-0.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP)—Rafael Nadal defeated Feliciano Lopez 6-4, 6-3 Thursday to reach the Barcelona Open quarterfinals, posting his 100th win on clay in his last 101 matches.

The three-time French Open champion’s only loss during that stretch—dating back to 2005—came against Roger Federer in Hamburg Masters final last year.

“That’s not bad,” Nadal said.

Taking control from the start, Nadal forced Lopez to save three break chances in the third game to hold his serve. Nadal, the three-time defending champion, broke in the fifth game when the 35th-ranked Lopez hit long.

Nadal’s backhand was sharp throughout the match, and another break in the second set was enough to set up a quarterfinal match against Juan Ignacio Chela, who defeated Ernests Gulbis 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Nadal, who had bandages across his left shoulder and under both knees, had been critical of the scheduling of clay-court tournaments.

The second-ranked Spaniard next plays at Rome and Hamburg, and has a one-week break before the French Open.

Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland will play Albert Montanes after upsetting seventh-ranked David Nalbandian 6-3, 6-1. Montanes held on to beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Earlier, fifth-seeded David Ferrer rallied to stop Nicolas Lapentti 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

He will next play Tommy Robredo, who topped ninth-seeded Guillermeo Canas 6-1, 7-5.

Robredo, the last player to win the tournament before Nadal, eased through the first set and held a 4-1 lead in the second. But Canas rallied and led 5-4, before Robredo won the last three games and won the match when Canas hit into the net.

Denis Gremelmayr defeated 15th-seeded Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-0. He will face Nicolas Almagro, who improved to a 21-3 record on clay this season after defeating Mario Ancic 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Yesterday the continuation of work on Wimbledon’s new-look Centre Court took place. Yesterday the All England Club announced a few changes for Wimbledon 2008 championships, including a £750,000 winner’s cash for the men’s and women’s singles, the first of a set of 70-ton “trusses” – 75-metre-wide coat-hanger-shaped structures which will span the width of the court – was successfully lowered into place over the new roof.

After the 2007 crowd was left exposed to arguably one of the wettest Wimbledon fornight’s in recent memory following the removal of the old roof, the new fixed cover will provide protection at the wimbledon 2008 tournament. By the 2009 championships a retractable cover will also be in operation, allowing for play in any condition, although the All England Club insists it will not be a prelude to regular night sessions.

There will be 1,200 more places on Centre Court compared with wimbledon 2007, taking the centre court capacity to 15,000. Most of the other new features on Wimbledon Centre Court will be up and running this year. There are improved catering facilities, including a rooftop bar for debenture holders, and a new Wimbledon shop.

They have also started working on the new No 2 court, which will be operational from 2009. The 4,000-capacity stadium, which is being built on what was Court 13, has a sunken playing surface, 3.5 metres below ground level.

Total Wimbledon prize money has been increased by 4.7 per cent to £11.8m. The 2 singles champions will receive £750,000 each, a 7.1 per cent increase on last year, while prize money for each of the men’s and women’s doubles competitions will exceed £1m for the first time.

Andy Murray was yesterday knocked out of the Open Sabadell Atlantico Barcelona at the second-round stage, losing 6-4 6-4 to the Croat, Mario Ancic. Murray squandered a handful of break points in losing to the world No 51.