TENNIS in DEPTH.

Mauresmo fades away to Groenefeld.

by on May.24, 2009, under Amelie Mauresmo, Roland Garros

FRANCE TENNIS FRENCH OPENmauresmo 5The temperature was cooler, and the light fading, by the time France’s Mauresmo delivered her latest disappointing performance at home, a 6-4, 6-3 loss against Anna-Lena Groenefeld in the evening’s final match.

“We couldn’t see,” Mauresmo said.

Hours earlier, Ivanovic got the tournament started on Court Philippe Chatrier, and she looked a bit shaky at the site of her only Grand Slam title.

With pieces of black tape on her troublesome right knee, she wasted 15 break points, fell behind 5-4 in the first set, and only for about a four-game stretch really asserted herself in a 7-6 (3), 6-3 struggle against 44th-ranked Sara Errani of Italy.

Errani, for one, was not impressed.

“Is she going to win the tournament?” Errani said. “Don’t think so.”

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