Passing shots in Paris

From WTA Backspin, we learn that the country with the second-highest number of players who made it to the top 64 (Russia had the most) is Romania. Join Todd Spiker and a commentator extraordinaire from the "past"--none other than Soren Kierkegaard--for a day-to-day existential deconstruction of events in Paris.

2004 French Open champion Anastasia Myskina is on her way to Paris to help coach 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. Because it takes a village.

Here is a Eurosport interview with Kuznetsova.

Sam Stosur told Benjamin Adler of the French Open website that either Julia Roberts or Drew Barrymore would be her choices to play her in a movie.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who has made it to the third round of the French Open, will probably be the number 2-ranked player from the USA in two weeks.