The Frenchwoman won it for a record third time last year but has now retired.
On the women's side, 30-year-old Serena Williams was stunned by 29-year-old Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano Tuesday.
Frenchwoman Carole Montillet-Carles, the 2002 Olympic downhill champion, will be taking part in a Nissan.
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Miss Cavagnoud was the first Frenchwoman to win a world skiing title for 17 years.
Mexico's Supreme Court has said a Frenchwoman jailed for 60 years for kidnap should not be freed immediately.
Frenchwoman Edith Bouvier is being treated by Syrian medics but needs surgery which they are unable to perform.
Peng will next play the Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova, who beat Rezai's fellow Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson 6-3 2-6 6-4.
Seventh seed Marion Bartoli awaits Ivanovic in the last eight, following the Frenchwoman's win over Czech No. 23 Lucie Safarova.
Like Sharapova, Australian Open champ Victoria Azarenka struggled with her serve, but she rallied past Frenchwoman Alize Cornet 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
"Without playing a match for two years, it is pretty amazing the level she already has right now, " said the Frenchwoman.
However, once her first serve clicked into gear, the Frenchwoman's confidence grew and the crowd sooned warmed to her bold, attacking game.
The Frenchwoman upset Venus in Sunday's final in Stanford, while world No. 2 Serena was beaten by Samantha Stosur in the quarterfinals.
Another Frenchwoman, Alize Cornet, stands between her and a place in the semifinals and a 13th straight win on the hard courts of the Farum Arena.
The Frenchwoman quickly went 3-0 down in the second set and though she bravely recovered one of the breaks, the experienced Henin-Hardenne held on to her advantage.
When a real-life Frenchwoman moves into the neighborhood, Ms. Beaulieu sneaks over to inhale a bit of Paris through forbidden spritzes of Yves Saint Laurent's perfume Rive Gauche.
She beat Lucie Decosse in the final with a stunning uchi-mata (inner thigh throw) as a counter to the Frenchwoman's own ouchi-gari (inner thigh reap) attack for the maximum ippon score.
The Breguet Foundation recently commemorated the 250th anniversary of his birth by awarding a prize to Carole Forestier, a Frenchwoman, who designed a wristwatch with a movement entirely encircled by the mainspring.
In 2003 alone, the Frenchwoman has missed the Australian Open with a right knee problem, and pulled out of two other events first with a right abductor strain and then the same problem in her left leg.
Bartoli, who admitted she was "still definitely not 100%" after a stomach bug, is the first Frenchwoman to reach a singles final at Indian Wells and will play Wozniacki after the 20-year-old eased past former world number one Sharapova in 80 minutes.
Ninth seed Marion Bartoli beat fellow Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano 7-5 6-0 and will next face Australia's former world No. 4 Jelena Dokic, who won 6-2 6-1 against 196th-ranked Russian Anna Chakvetadze -- a quarterfinalist in 2007 on her way to a career-high No. 5.
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