Of course, there are no prizes for guessing that this week it goes to the new 'Comeback Queen' Amelie Mauresmo (her face is behind her hands in this picture). After two years in the relative tennis wilderness, the former Australian and Wimbledon champion and world number one returned to her old form with a bang in her home event, the Open GDF Suez in Paris.
En route to the final, she saw off Italian Sara Errani 6-2, 6-0 (who she had lost to in Fed Cup duty last weekend), Romanian Monica Niculescu 6-2, 6-1, fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-0 and second seed Jelena Jankovic 6-2, 0-6, 6-1. In the final she was drawn against Russia's Elena Dementieva, arguably the best tour event player in recent months. Mauresmo used her serve, volleys and backhand to great effect, winning a superb final 7-6, 2-6, 6-4, in well over two hours. As a result, she colected one of the nicest looking trophies on the WTA Tour (check their website for a picture).
Unfortunately, this win means she will not be participating in the Dubai Tennis Championships this week, where she made the quarter finals last year before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova. We don't yet know who she will be replaced by.
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