French Open champion Franesca Schiavone after being named in an extended Australian Fed Cup squad to play Italy early next year.
At Roland Garros World No.6 Stosur lost to Schiavone in this year's final on Thursday for the February 5-6 tie in Hobart.
Jarmila Groth and Sophie Ferguson are a better opportunity to make their Fed Cup debuts. For their captain David Taylor and coach Nivole Bradtke will select the final team.
Australian French Open starts in Melbourne on January 17.
French Open champion Franesca Schiavone after being named in an extended Australian Fed Cup squad to play Italy early next year. At Roland Garros World No.6 Stosur lost to Schiavone in this year's final on Thursday for the February 5-6 tie in Hobart.
Jarmila Groth and Sophie Ferguson are a better opportunity to make their Fed Cup debuts. For their captain David Taylor and coach Nivole Bradtke will select the final team.
Australian French Open starts in Melbourne on January 17.
Andy Murray has great opportunity of winning the French Open but he has not quite raised win the match. Murray feared because he never win after his third round in a Grand Slam exit from the US Open last month. At this week's China Open in Beijing he speaking before returning to action.
The British No1 said: ' I hope that the French Open will be my best chance to win but, if I play well , I'II own give opportunity to win in French Open but it’s very difficult right now because these guys at the top are playing very well.’
Murray said: ‘I don’t want to go for anyone. It might be a mistake after three or four months.’
‘I’m going to keep working with Alex through to the end of the year, then I look to appoint someone before the start of the new year when I’ve got a bit of time to try some coaches out.’
Murray is also looking again to pair up with Laura Robson, a partnership that provided him with a springboard to reach the Australian Open final eight months ago.
"Believe me, I am very happy" about getting back to the top, Nadal said after beating Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in Sunday's French Open final. But the 24-year-old Spaniard also made perfectly clear that he was more excited about winning his seventh Grand Slam title than his new ranking.
"When I was crying after the match," he said, "the last thing I was thinking (about was) No1."
Toni Nadal, Rafael's uncle and coach, agreed.
"Being No 1 is nice after the tournament," Toni Nadal said, "but the most important thing is the trophy."
Nadal's promotion to the top spot brings and end to Federer's campaign of tying Pete Sampras' career record of 286 weeks at No 1 - the Swiss player was just one week off the achievement.
Federer won last year's French Open, but he lost to Soderling in the quarterfinals last week.
Soderling's second consecutive runner-up finish at Roland Garros — he also was the player who stunned Nadal in 2009 — allowed him to rise one place to a career-high No 6.
"This was very, very important for the rest of the season, to build a little bit of confidence and to be able to play better and better for every match." said Soderling's coach, Magnus Norman.
"Because he was tense going in. The last couple of weeks before the French, he was talking a lot about how many (rankings) points he has to defend."
Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Nikolay Davydenko complete the top five.
The French Open also saw Andy Roddick climb one spot to seventh and reigning US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro slide two notches to eighth. He missed the French Open due to injury.
Men's rankings as of Monday June 7:
The self-designed cheeky little number she wore as she brushed aside Spaniard Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-2 6-4 in the second round drew more questions than her game.
Williams wore the same black lace seethrough skirted bodice that exposed her skin-coloured underwear she had worn against Patty Schnyder in the first round.
But the American, who also caused controversy with her outfit at the Australian Open, denied the dress was deliberately provocative.
She said: "That was never the objective. It all started in Australia where I had a dress with really long slits in the front. It was about wearing a dress that looks like you have these slits with bareness.
"This design has nothing to do with the rear. It just so happens that I have a very well developed one.
"The illusion of just having bare skin is definitely, for me, a lot more beautiful."
She was asked one question about her victory over Santonja and Williams said: "On the bigger points, especially on my serve, I played those really well, and I think that was key."
Williams now faces 26th seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia who avoided an upset after coming from a set down to crush Varvara Lepchenko from the USA 4-6 6-2 6-0.
On a rain-hit fourth day at Roland Garros 14th seed Flavia Pennetta followed up her victory over Britain's Anne Keothavong with a 6-1 6-1 success against fellow Italian Roberta Vinci.
Russian Nadia Petrova (19) cruised past Hungary's Agnes Szavay 6-1 6-2, while Romainan Alexandra Dulgheru (31) defeated Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-4 6-2.
World order was restored to men’s tennis on Sunday as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal faced each other for the first time, almost to the day, in one year. Even more reassuring – for those of us who like to know where we stand – was the result.
The French Open is billed as the most challenging of all the grand slams and the 2010 French Open tennis tournament is sure to adhere to the rigours and robust competitiveness so typical of the second of the annual tennis 'majors'.MELBOURNE — Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt will be out of action for at least three months after undergoing hip surgery following his exit from the Australian Open.
The Australian world number 22, who was beaten in straight sets by top seed Roger Federer in the fourth round, hopes to return in time to play some European clay court tournaments ahead of the French Open in late May.
"After I finished the Australian Open, I had to go in and have hip surgery on my right hip," said the 28-year-old dual Grand Slam winner, who hobbled into his press conference Saturday on crutches.
"It's been causing a few problems since the Hopman Cup at the start of the year. It wasn't an easy decision to make, but one that I felt was necessary right at the moment."
It is the second time Hewitt has had to undergo hip surgery.
The last operation, on his left hip, was immediately after the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, and he was out of action until January last year.
Despite the latest setback, Hewitt said he "absolutely" had the desire to keep playing.
"I could have waited a couple of weeks, see if it settled down a little bit better straight after playing a tournament," he said.
"At the end of the day, from the scans I had before the Australian Open, speaking to the experts that I had around me, we pretty much knew that the decision was out of my hands at the moment.
"Obviously, what I play for these days are the Grand Slams.
"If I waited any longer to have anything done, it would have been very similar to 2008 where I prolonged it because I didn't exactly know what was going on and ended up missing the US Open because of it.
"For me having it done right now, I'll be back ready for the French Open."
Hewitt will now be unavailable to lead Australia in their Group I Asia/Oceania Davis Cup tie against Taiwan in Melbourne on March 5-7
