Rain fails to halt birthday girl Justine

BIRTHDAY girl Justine Henin-Hardenne and former world number one Lleyton Hewitt moved into the French Open third round yesterday, booking their places before the rains returned to swamp Roland Garros.

Rain fails to halt birthday girl Justine
Fri, 02 Jun, 2006 - 01:00
Dave James

Belgium’s Henin-Hardenne, the fifth seed and defending champion, celebrated her 24th birthday in miserable weather conditions as she laboured to beat Anastasia Yakimova of Belarus 6-2, 7-5.

She next plays the winner of the tie between Alize Cornet of France and Tathiana Garbin of Italy for a place in the last 16.

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