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Saturday, June 4th, 2011

The only real marker as one searches for a winner of the women’s singles at the French Open is the match Francesca Schiavone and Li Na played here last year in the third round. The Italian won 6-4, 6-2. But don’t get carried away by that. The Australian Open runner-up celebrated by falling flat [...]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Five-times champion Rafa Nadal sparked off his 25th birthday celebrations on Friday by blowing Andy Murray off court with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 win to reach the French Open final. The Spaniard, bidding to equal Bjorn Borg’s record of 6 titles at Roland Garros, outplayed the British 4th seed in a 3-hour-17-minute display of [...]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Li Na is back in a Grand Slam final, reaching her second straight major championship match by defeating Maria Sharapova 6-4, 7-5 Thursday in the French Open semifinals. The Australian Open runner-up, who became the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam final this year in Melbourne, was able to chase down nearly [...]
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Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Roger Federer slamdunked compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka with a 6-3 6-2 7-5 victory on Sunday which powered the third seed into the French Open quarter-finals. Watched by top French NBA player Tony Parker on a sunny center court, Federer produced a series of delightful shots including a sublime sliced backhand passing winner down the line. [...]
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Former world number one Maria Sharapova cruised into the fourth round of the French Open with a hard-hitting 6-2 6-3 victory over Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan on Saturday. 7th seed Maria Sharapova posted a dominant win over Chinese Taipei’s Yung-Jan Chan and entered the pre-quarterfinals of the 2011 French Open, season’s second Grand Slam event [...]