But she suffered an ankle injury at the 2007 French Open, forcing her to miss all events that year, including the chance to defend her Wimbledon women's doubles title.

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The US Open has paid equal prize money the past 38 years, but credit Venus Williams who fought for equal pay at Wimbledon which finally acquiesced in 2007 as did the French Open.

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Since Justine Henin won her last title in 2007, there have been five different French Open champions in five years.

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Belgian former world number one Henin is returning to Roland Garros for the first time since 2007 when she won the fourth of her French Open titles.

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Mr. Gimelstob competed on tour from 1996 through 2007, won the 1998 Australian Open and French Open mixed doubles titles with Venus Williams as his partner, and was ranked as high as 63rd while reaching the 3rd round of a major 5 times in his career (thrice at Wimbledon, twice at the U.S. Open).

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Nadal has lost only once at Roland Garros since his first appearance in Paris in 2005, when he began a run of four successive French Open titles, while Monaco's best effort is a fourth-round defeat in 2007.

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