On the women's tour, Mona Barthel won her second WTA title after upsetting top seed Sara Errani in the final of the Paris Open .
But his hopes of ending the century on a high were shattered when a thigh muscle injury saw him pull out of the Paris Open in November, so ending his chances of booking a place in the season-ending ATP World Championships.
She has bounced back from a shock second-round loss to British teenager Laura Robson at January's Australian Open and a surprise defeat by French wild-card entry Kristina Mladenovic at the Paris Open, winning both matches as the Czechs thrashed Australia in the first match of their Fed Cup title defense.
World No. 1 Serena pulled out of this week's Paris Indoor Open due to a leg injury, leaving Dementieva as the highest-ranked player.
Fifth seed Dementieva, who won the Paris Indoor Open title on Sunday, suffered a shoulder injury in her match against Daniela Hantuchova and pulled out while trailing 6-4 1-1.
The ITF World Champions will receive their awards at a dinner during the French Open in Paris next June.
One of the world's most visited museums, the Louvre in Paris, did not open on Wednesday because of a protest by staff over pickpockets.
It looks a bit like Paris and the French Open is a bit under pressure because Wimbledon and obviously the Australian Open both have roofs.
The most obvious short-term goal is the French Open in Paris, also on red clay, where Nadal has won a remarkable seven times, including last year.
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"OK, I have done it, let's focus on my next goals which are the grand slams, " Williams said, admitting that she already had at least half an eye on the French Open in Paris, starting on May 26.
Nadal, beaten by World No.1 Novak Djokovic in the Monte Carlo final Sunday, is using the Barcelona tournament to tune-up for the French Open in Paris next month where he is defending champion and bidding for an eighth crown.
The competition, now in its 18th year, is open to bakers throughout Paris, and 2012 saw 168 entrants.
My husband, Michel Paris, was too weak to open his tin and sat there with it in his hands and wept.
The French Open gets underway in Paris on May 26 and finishes on June 9, just over a fortnight before the start of the Wimbledon championships.
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The latest of these is the soon-to-open hedge fund center at Paris's highly-ranked HEC Business School, sponsored by BNP Paribas.
He will be heavy favorite to win his 24th Masters 1, 000 crown Sunday before heading to Paris for his defense of the French Open crown.
It will open in Galeries Lafayette in Paris later this year.
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In Paris, Grasso had set up an open line to the exchange from his room in the luxurious Hotel de Crillon, where he was host of a dinner.
The charm reached its peak when Djokovic pledged to open a Serbian restaurant in Paris one day, drawing a roar of appreciation that could probably be heard all around Roland Garros.
Meanwhile, on the women's WTA Tour, top seed Elena Dementieva of Russia fought back from a set down to beat Czech Lucie Safarov in the final of the Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris.
In 1993 McDonald's was refused permission to open under the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Paris on Wednesday urged the Malian government to open discussions with the "legitimate representatives of the people in the north" as well as "non-terrorist armed groups".
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In recognition of this effort, we have to accept that up until now the guiding concept behind it has been public access and promoting open knowledge, so the major challenge that the government is now facing is to mobilise the commitments made in the Paris Declaration and make the leap between public and open.
But Nadal rebounded from the loss and beat Djokovic twice this spring, and then again in the French Open final for his record seventh title in Paris.
Nadal, who won both Wimbledon and the French Open this year, last played at the Paris Masters in October, when he was forced to pull out because of his injury problems.
The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.
Nadal lost the Madrid final and then lost in the French Open fourth round that year, his only defeat in Paris.
The true test will come in late spring in Paris, where Nadal will defend his 2012 title at the French Open, a tournament he's won an astonishing seven times.
London Irish open-side flanker Steffon Armitage will also travel to Paris as cover for the back row, with Johnson stressing that it was a precautionary move because of a number of "niggling injuries".
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