Sharapova blasts way to French final

[Dave Monroe]

PARIS -- It is one of the most famous first lines in literature: "A
screaming comes across the sky."

This is how Thomas Pynchon began "Gravity's Rainbow." Among other
things, it refers to the V-2 rockets produced by the German military.
No one knows if the famously reclusive author is (or was) a tennis
fan, but the book, published 40 years ago, was amazingly prescient.
For it coyly captures the heat, the atomic fission produced by the
best rivalry in women's tennis today.

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