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Article: Ten: Sacre bleu! French fried by Open draw
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- January 10, 2003
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Ten: Sacre bleu! French fried by Open draw
By Sharon Mathieson
CANBERRA, Jan 10 AAP - You could almost feel sorry for the French.
Lady Luck certainly wasn't looking out for them during today's
Australian Open draw.
No prizes for guessing Emilie Loit's impending fate after she drew
world No.1 Serena
Williams in the first round and there's little hope for French wildcard
Camilie Pin, up
against ninth seed Lindsay Davenport, or promising young talent Marion
Bartoli, who'll
face 11th seed Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria.
Loit found out about her first-round encounter with Williams just
before she headed
onto the court to play her semi-final at the Canberra ...