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You asked for it (well some of you at least ) so here it is ! The Frenchie in NY blog by yours truly Madame (a nice french Gal ...)

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French ladies first day went more or less as planned

Marion beat down Rossana. She seams to be in great shape and nothing left of the thigh problem for which she retired last week in New Haven. The problem now is that Kim Klijsters is next. Kim that won their last encounter in Cincinnati in two short sets. So who will show up on Wednesday: The Marion that won Stanford or the one that lost to Kim ?



Mathilde had a great first set against MLDB the shrieker. But Then Michelle woke up and Mathilde faltered, losing in three sets.

Finally Amelie won her first round against German back in form Tatjana Malek. She almost scared us in the second set by losing one of her two easily won breaks, but managed to close it in two sets at the third match point. Next for Amélie is the strong Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak.




As for the boys, Marc Giquel had a good match beating Tursunov in four sets while Paulo showed his GEM status by losing to his nemesis, Mikhail Youzhny. Marc next meets Andy Roddick. Good luck mate !



Results:
M. Bartoli (14) d. R. De Los Rios (Par) 6/1, 6/0
A. Mauresmo (17) d. T. Malek (All) 6/3, 6/4
M. Larcher de Brito (Por) d. M. Johansson 1/6, 7/5, 6/1

M. Gicquel d. D. Tursunov (Rus) 6/2, 5/7, 6/3, 6/3
M. Youzhny (Rus) d. P.H. Mathieu (26)*2/6, 7/5, 6/0, 6/2


Preview:
Today 11 frenchies on board, 4 boys and 7 girls. Don't miss Jo-Willy starting the Grandstand program and check-out the french wild-card, Kristina Mladenovic. She's a very promising young but big and strong lady. Also Aravane Rezaï against Sabine Lisicki should be some match !

NY ambiance