Fashion Car Crash Serena Wins at French Open

Serena and Venus Williams, sequestered on the same side of the draw at Roland Garros this year, both looked strong in first round wins Tuesday at the French Open.

(2)Serena rolled Iveta "Play Better" Benesova 6-2, 6-2, while elder sister (4)Venus Williams subdued Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-2, 6-4.

Serena in her post-match was more excited about the color of her outfit than the quality of her game: "It's more or less like hints of pink in it. However, it's like purple. It's actually purple. But that's not the name of it...Fuscia. It's fuscia. Thank you. Fuscia with actually red hints on my waistband, it's red. It's cool. It's really different."

Ignoring the fact she was booed off the court last year, Serena was nonetheless confident in speaking for French fans concerning their love for (add gemstones here) SERENA!.

"I think they (the French) always appreciate the fashion style and flair that I bring," Serena said. Serena also threatened to bring out another car-crash outfit (remember the "corset"?) in her next match.

While the Williams sisters barely broke a sweat Tuesday, other Top 10 seeds struggled in (6)Anastasia Myskina (d. Molik in three sets), and (7)Jennifer Capriati (d. Beygelzimer in three). Other seeded winners were (11)Svetlana Kuznetsova (d. Bacheva), (12)Ai Sugiyama (d. Bartoli), (16)Patty "Hnadshake" Schnyder (d. Kapros), (17)Francesca Schiavone (d. Cohen-Aloro), (20)Conchita Martinez (d. Ashley), (23)Fabiola "The Fabulous One" Zuluaga (d. Martina "Nurse Hand Me a" Sucha), (25)Elena Bovina (d. Vinci), (29)Petra Mandula (d. McCain 6-1 in the third), and (30)Mary Pierce (d. Schaul).

Two low-rent seeds were sent home on the day in Frenchwoman (26)Nathalie Dechy (l. to countrywoman Stephanie Foretz), and (22)Karolina "The Spreminator" Sprem (l. to Swiss Myriam Casanova).

Un-seeds into the second round were legend-killer Gisela "Sgt." Dulko (d. (WC)Navratilova), Klara "Kouky" Koukalova (d. French wunderteen Golovin in two tiebreaks), Japan's Shinobu Asagoe (d. Daniela "The Walking Stick" Hantuchova), Jelena Kostanic (d. Pin), Barbara Rittner (d. Barbara "Don't Give a" Schett), Gala Leon Garcia (d. Granville), Virginie Razzano (d. Brandi), Maria Kirlienko (d. Mikaelian), Virginia Ruano Pascual (d. Melinda "Our Favorite Element" Czink), Barbora Strycova (d. Callens), Denisa "Hanging" Chladkova (d. Beltrame), Anna-Lena Groenefeld (d. Stosur), Katarina Srebotnik (d. Black), Silvija Talaja (d. Gagliardi), Maria Vento-Kabchi (d. Lee-Waters), Russian Elena Likhovtseva (d. countrywoman Jidkova in three), Kveta Peschke (d. Birnerova in three), and American Shenay Perry (d. Obziler).

On court Wednesday are (3)Mauresmo vs. Anabel "Funky Cold" Medina Garrigues, (5)Davenport vs. Sanchez Lorenzo, (10)Vera "Warren" Zvon-areva vs. Serna, (15)Farina Elia vs. Shaughnessy, Weingartenr vs. Camerin, (14)Suarez vs. Douchevina, (28)Raymond vs. Parra Santonja, (32)Dinara "Little Sis" Safina vs. Irvin, (31)Loit vs. Zheng, (1)Henin-Hardenne vs. Garbin, (8)Petrova vs. Fedak, (9)Dementieva vs. Pratt, Perebiynis vs. Ashley "Anna 2.0" Harkleroad, (18)Maria "Grunt-o-licious" Sharapova vs. Rita "Ain't It" Grande, (21)Maleeva vs. Marrero, and (19)Smashnova-Pistolesi vs. Klara "Kouky" Koukalova.