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Golovin Downs Venus at Family Circle Cup

From The State: Venus' title defense goes terribly awry

Although Venus Williams termed her performance “a comedy of errors,” presumably of the unforced variety, there was little doubt about the identity of the better player, at least for a day, on Thursday.

Tatiana Golovin, the No. 13 seed at the Family Circle Cup, upset Williams, the fourth seed and defending champion, in straight sets during Thursday’s round of 16, winning 7-5, 6-4.

Tatiana Golovin

A fun article on Tatiana Golovin in The Telegraph: Golovin hot stuff on and off court

And still Tatiana Golovin waits for some sort of response from Buckingham Palace. It was last summer that she informed Prince William through the morning prints that she wanted to look up from the Centre Court at Wimbledon and see him waving back at her from the Royal Box. "I'll be waiting for him," the would-be princess had purred.

This cheeky approach to the princes was typical of her. Golovin is no joyless tennis machine, more like a Frenchwoman who simply adores all the glitz, glamour, occasional hilarity and the hipster hotpants of being a tennis player.