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2012 French Open TV schedule for tournament coverage on ESPN2, Tennis Channel and NBC. The second Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year returns to the red clay courts of Roland Garros in Paris for the French Open from May 27-June 10. Spain’s Rafael Nadal goes for his seventh title (he has won six of the past seven French Opens), but will face competition from Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, David Ferrer and longtime foe Roger Federer. On the women’s side, China’s Li Na beat defending champ Francesca Schiavone in last year’s final. Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Petra Kvitova and Agnieszka [...]...

Due to heavy rainfall in New York city yesterday, all scheduled matches were cancelled so today the fourth concludes up and the quarter-finals begin. The year’s final Grand Slam, situated in the hectic Flushing Meadows grounds, has seen the “big four” male players – Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray – sail through the draw smoothly, while upsets and withdrawals have littered the women’s field.

Djokovic has been impressive playing in his first slam as the World No. 1. This season, the Djoker has proved extra pressure that comes from heightened expectations is no problem, winning his first 43 matches of 2011 and compiling an impressive record of 61 wins and just one loss. Djokovic whizzed through his four matches without losing a set, his only challenge coming from the unorthodox Ukrainian Alexander Doglopolov who stretched him in a 31 point first set tie-break before going down 7-6, 6-4, 6-2. Djokovic next...

Amanda Seyfried was spotted getting cozy with a mystery man at the 2011 Us Open in Flushing, New York on Monday.

The 25-year-old star was looking a little incognito in her baseball hat and sunglasses, as she watched Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia play against Francesca Schiavone of Italy, with her possible new man. The dark-haired gentleman sat beside Seyfried as they sipped wine and enjoyed the match.

Seyfried has previously been linked to Ryan Phillippe, but the two split early this summer.

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Howdy, y'all, and apols for leaving you BritishTVless for so long. But I'm back, and - well, my oh my, what a lot of stuff we have to talk about. There's the still effervescent "Psychoville", the Adam Curtis docu-lecture "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace", and the not very anticipated return of "Lead Balloon". Oh, and I'll see if I get time to throw in a dig or two at "The Shadow Line", which at first I thought was good and then later found... to be... sorry, I would finish that thought, but I just have to do the most enormous yawn right now.

One more thing before we start: many of these things are good, but the thing I am most obsessed with right now is the French Tennis Open at Roland Garros, which is French and can therefore not qualify exactly as British television. Sorry in...