He added that the tough competition in South Korea would help in the forthcoming E-Sports World Cup to be held in Paris from 6-10 July.
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The initiatives sent leading European shares higher during afternoon trading: the Frankfurt DAX soared 8.5%, the Paris CAC 40 gained 6.7%, while the London FTSE 100 advanced 4.6%.
On the day Hong Kong Disneyland was announced, Paris Disneyland reported a 46.6% drop in net profits, year on year.
In other matches, Feliciano Lopez battled back from a set down to defeat Xavier Malisse 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 in Paris.
The eighth seed, who reached the final of the Swiss Indoors in Basle last week, easily defeated his in-form compatriot Juan Martin del Potro 6-4 6-0 in Paris.
Shares of EADS closed 1.6% higher in Paris.
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In the European afternoon, the FTSE 100 in London was up 0.1%, the DAX in Frankfurt traded 0.5% higher, the CAC-40 was 0.6% higher in Paris and the FTSE Mib index was up 0.4% in Italy.
In her last five tournaments, though, she has reached at least the quarterfinals, and she started on an up note in Paris Monday as she drubbed Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-1.
Passenger numbers on the high-speed train between London, Brussels and Paris fell 1% to 2.6 million between July and September, which the train operator said was because "tourists who were not going to the Games were encouraged to avoid London".
London will find out on 6 July whether it has beaten Paris, New York, Madrid and Moscow to host the Games in 2012.
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Azarenka, who made the last-eight in Paris in both 2009 and 2011, claimed a 6-1 6-4 victory to set up a clash with the 2012 junior champion.
Belgian Clijsters, twice runner-up at Roland Garros, wore down Slovakian Hantuchova 6-4 6-2 on a baking hot day in Paris.
In Paris the benchmark Cac 40 index was 101 points lower at 6, 094.2 and Germany's key Xetra Dax index ended 76 points down at 6, 912.9.
European markets all fell, with London's FTSE 100 closing down 1.6% at 6, 291.54 and the Cac 40 in Paris falling 2.3% to 3, 624.80.
Blake will next face France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat Andy Roddick 5-7 6-4 7-6 (7-5) in the evening match in Paris.
In Paris, the Cac-40 closed 86.90 points higher at 6, 147.44, while in Frankfurt, the Xetra Dax closed 9.35 points higher at 7, 196.49.
Standing between Nadal and a seventh Paris final is another Spaniard, David Ferrer, after the No. 6 seed beat Britain's Andy Murray 6-4 6-7 6-3 6-2.
Prime properties in cities such as London and Paris are selling for yields often below 5%, compared with around 6% during the depths of the downturn.
When we played France out in Paris in 2005 it was very similar (Wales came back from 15-6 down to win 24-18).
But Safin has also been nowhere near the player who blew everyone away in the Paris Masters a couple of weeks ago, and Hewitt took the first set 6-4.
Tax adds 5.5% (or 20.6% for some imports) to the price of works brought to Paris for sale, compared with 2.5% in London and nothing in New York.
Pumas full-back Ignacio Corleto, who plays his club rugby in Paris with Stade Francais, scored an interception try that helped Argentina establish a 17-6 lead.
Belarussian Azarenka reached the Paris quarterfinals last year, but has been suffering from a succession of injuries recently and was blown away 6-1 6-2 by the dangerous Gisela Dulko of Argentina.
The group estimates that some 6, 000 foreign children arrive illegally in France each year -- most turn up in Paris expecting to be able to work to send money home to their families.
The Paris and Frankfurt exchanges closed down 2%, while London's FTSE 100 ended the day 1.6% lower.
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