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Parity dominating women's tennis

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 1, 2006

PARIS -- Justine Henin-Hardenne, wind-chilled and wet, grimaced in her changeover chair and pulled the magenta Roland Garros towel tighter around her narrow shoulders. With the temperature hovering in the low 50s and rain falling steadily throughout her second-round match with Anastasiya Yakimova on Thursday, it was a miserable way to spend her 24th birthday. "We feel like November now in Belgium," Henin-Hardenne said later. "It's really amazing. I don't have the memory of spending my birt ...

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