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But the most prominent linguistic divide is the name of the French tournament itself.

The French tournament was said to have attracted up to 1.5 million viewers on TV.

Bitterness and recrimination have come to lie as squarely at the heart of the French tournament experience these days as talk of the panacea of the youth academy at Clairefontaine did 12 years ago.

But the shot that created the ending — a forehand volley from Soderling on match point — was certainly what the French tournament director, Jean-François Jean-François Caujollewhad he installed a faster court this year.

The French tournament officials pushed Evert's third round match with Sanchez Vicario back a couple of days to assist her recovery, but even with injections, Evert was up against it.

"We wanted it to be safe, we wanted it to be umpired and, most of all, we wanted it to produce something visual that looks like the movies, because that is what people expect," a French tournament organizer told the AP.

Stade have taken Dupuy's case to the French national Olympic committee, which has the power to reinstate him in French tournaments.

The Saracens chairman, Nigel Wray, believes moves towards establishing a new Anglo-French tournament next season were "inevitable".

European Rugby Cup officials are hoping that a Canadian mediator can resolve a long-running dispute with French and English clubs, who want to scrap the Heineken Cup and start their own Anglo-French tournament.

But a stumbling block for the Anglo-French tournament could actually come from within France, with the French Rugby Federation (FFR) having this week announced its support for ERC.

Gilbert Ysern, the French Open tournament director, indicated as much by telephone Thursday while acknowledging surprise at the magnitude of the U.S. Open prize-money move.