Justine Henin battling for his fifth French Open Crown

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Published: May 29, 2010

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Before we hit the European clay, I wrote a preview http://bleacherreport.com/articles/373873-will-justine-henin-once-again-be-the-queen-of-clay  of the clay season speculating whether Henin would once again be the queen of clay and rule the courts like Nadal does on the men's side. 

Here we are at the French Open and the first week is coming to a close.

The lead-up tournaments provided us with a lot of different answers and new champions.

Henin did win one lead-up, but who would had seen Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez winning in Madrid?

And who figured Aravane Rezai would pull it off against three former number one's in Rome?

Or what about Venus Williams enjoying her perhaps greatest clay season ever?

I, for one, didn't, although I did have an idea about Venus doing well giving her strong showing in the US.

But where do we stand with regards to the women favourites for the title as Queen of the clay? Let's take a look at the four different quarters as they stand at this point. 

 

Serena Williams Quarter, or Quarter of Death

This quarter contains three of the hottest pre-tournament favourites and after their first two matches, they all remain among the hot favourites.

I'm obviously talking about Justine Henin, Serena Williams and Samantha Stosur.

Being in the same quarter makes the winning a whole lot harder. Especially for my pre-tournament favourite Henin, who will have to go through Maria Sharapova (third round,) Stosur (fourth round) and Serena Williams (quarters) just to get to the semis.

Does it get any harder than this? I doubt it.

Both Williams and Stosur have looked like they are on a mission when handing bagels and 1's almost at will (and yes, Stosur lost a set, but what a message she send afterwards! (4-6, 6-1, 6-0 against Los Rios.)

She should prevail in h...
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