But the French will miss him more than they realize.
Before the French Open, Miss Hingis had won four of the previous five Grand Slam events and had been a fixture at the top of the world rankings since March last year.
The Aqlaam Oh So Sharp Stakes alsowent to an overseas challenger as André Fabre's French filly Miss France (7-2) claimed victory by a head, a margin which could have been much greater if Mickaël Barzalona had so desired.
Along for the ride are two teachers: the life-embracing French woman Miss Daignault as director and the buttoned-up Brit known as Sir as chaperone.
Accepting her award, she said, "I don't know if French cinema missed me, but I missed it — madly, hopelessly, painfully".
Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde), a dumpy tax inspector in his mid-forties on business in a provincial French town, misses his train back to Paris.
The French government missed its deficit target meaning the government spending component was higher than planned, arithmetically boosting the GDP data.
Nicolas Anelka, the French striker, missed with the London club's seventh penalty and thus gave United their third victory in the tournament, to follow those of 1968 and 1999.
Eric Abidal, Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema, Bacary Sagna and Laurent Koscielny were among the French who missed Friday's penultimate qualifier, and Patrice Evra (thigh) and Yohan Cabaye (ankle) emerged from the game with injuries.
A10 Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the interim president of Iraq, said a veteran French journalist missing for eight days had been kidnapped and that his government was doing all it could to find her.
However, the French side missed several good chances and their profligacy resulted in their first Ligue 1 or Champions League defeat of the season.
