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By Ossian Shine PARIS (Reuters) - Venus Williams suffered a humiliating third-round defeat by a 15-year-old Bulgarian Spice Girls fan Friday as American fortunes withered at the French Open.
The former world number one's 6-3 1-6 6-1 loss to 98th-ranked Sesil Karantcheva left just two players from the United States in the singles draws, men or women. Only top seed Lindsay Davenport, who narrowly beat Virginie Razzano Friday, and 85th-ranked Marissa Irvin are keeping the Stars and Stripes flying over Roland Garros. "Basically just too many errors," Venus said. "Just wasn't good. Now I am ready to leave... there's nothing for me here now... wanna go." Karantcheva, who attributes her grasp of the English language to "listening to the Spice Girls all the time," employed her own version of "Girl Power" to beat the twice Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion in 84 minutes. Venus, representing the Williams family alone in the French capital after sister Serena pulled out injured, has now failed to advance beyond the fourth round in her last four grand slams. |