Every Grand Slam is a unique opportunity for tennis fashion to step up and shine in the best light, so here at Women's Tennis Blog I always compile a collage of WTA photos to show the variety of styles in one place. For this French Open I played with movie making a bit and made this slideshow video. I hope you like it! Of course, don't forget to click the YouTube "Like" button if you do!

I included a lot of brands in the video, so that you get as comprehensive picture as possible. You can see players wearing Nike, Adidas,  Lotto, Reebok, Anta, Lacoste, Asics, Under Armour, EleVen, Fila and Adidas by Stella McCartney.

As you'll notice in the video, my pick for the best look of the 2012 French Open is Serena Williams, even though her display of the three-shade green Nike dress lasted for just one match (a long and exciting one, though). Also perfect was Ana Ivanovic and all the others who sported the Adidas Adizero style in lime and core energy.

Who's on your best-dressed list?

It's awesome being regular with these fashion overviews, so now we can easily refer to the past and compare. Check out Roland Garros designs in the past two years.

• 2011: Spring tennis fashion Roland Garros edition
• 2010: Roland Garros fashion radar – WTA outfits

Also, compare the claycourt looks with the styles sported on the blue courts in the Australian sun at Melbourne 2012.

Serena Williams is out, Agnieszka Radwanska is out, Victoria Azarenka is out, last year's runner-up and 2010 champion Francesca Schiavone is out and now defending champion Li Na also waved goodbye, while Maria Sharapova kept herself in the game, but only after digging deep into the Roland Garros clay.

The seventh-seeded Li won the first set against world No. 142 Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, but trailing 3-6 2-2 Shvedova won 10 straight games and sent the last year's titlist home 3-6 6-2 6-0 to reach the quarterfinals of Roland Garros. Two year's ago, Shvedova, then ranked No.36, was also a quarterfinalist in Paris, beating Sara Errani, Agnieszka Radwanska, Alisa Kleybanova and Jarmila Gajdosova on the way. Then Shvedova suffered a knee injury, had to undergo surgery, and more struggles in 2011 escorted her out of the Top 200 in singles. Now she's worked her way back and her next opponent will be either fourth seed Petra Kvitova or Varvara Lepchenko.

Li's exit leaves the French Open draw without former champions.

Second seed Maria Sharapova, after breezing through her first three matches, fought for three hours and 11 minutes before defeating Klara Zakopalova 6-4 6-7(5) 6-2 in a the fourth-round encounter that featured 30 games, 21 of which were breaks of serve. Therefore, it's pointless to even talk about who broke whom when. There were constant ups and downs. Interestingly, it was Zakopalova who finished the match with a better differential of winners to unforced errors, committing 48 unforced errors to Sharapova's 53, and 44 winners to Sharapova's 38.

Moreover, Sharapova served 12 double faults and Zakopalova 7. One of those double faults was on Sharapova's third set point (she wasted three opportunities to serve out the match), while Zakopalova ended the match with a double fault. Sharapova's quarterfinal opponent will be either seed No.23 Kaia Kanepi or Arantxa Rus. (photos: Tennis Buzz)

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Will it be red hot Maria Sharapova or Serena Williams? Once clumsy on clay, Sharapova is now a definite favorite for the Roland Garros trophy. With Stuttgart and Rome titles this season, Sharapova has raised her record in clay finals to 5-0 and she's 11-0 on dirt this season. Also, four of her last five titles have come on clay. The 2002 French Open champion Serena is on a 17-match winning streak on clay, the second best clay streak this century, and even though she withdrew in the semifinals of Rome, she's expected to be healthy for Roland Garros. Just like Sharapova, Serena won two titles on clay this year, in Charleston and Madrid.

World number one Victoria Azarenka has had a stellar season, with a 35-3 win-loss record, four titles, including her first Grand Slam at the Australian Open, and two finals in eight tournaments she played in 2012. As for the clay season, she played the finals of Stuttgart and Madrid and beat three former French Open champions on the way (Svetlana Kuznetsova, Ana Ivanovic and Li Na) before losing to the hottest players of the moment, to Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova. Azarenka then withdrew from Rome after comfortably winning her opener, saying that she didn't even want to enter the tournament in the first place, but was forced by the pressure of WTA rules. This will be the first time Azarenka is top seed at a Grand Slam. Read more »

It was tense, it was topsy-turvey, and to make things even more complicated, the Rome final was suspended due to rain before the third-set tiebreak (what a moment to stop the match!), but when the play resumed it was defending champion Maria Sharapova who had the edge over Li Na and won her second claycourt title this season.

With the 2011 French Open champion Li leading a set and 4-0, the momentum changed as Sharapova took eight straight games. In the third set, Sharapova looked to be racing to victory while leading 4-1 (an advantage of two breaks), but then her unforced errors crept in and Li was ready to take the opportunity. The Chinese quickly worked her way back and the result was leveled to 4-4, just like in both previous sets. Li then held her serve for 5-4 and put Sharapova in the position to serve to stay in the match. As if the match was not uncertain enough, at 6-4 4-6 5-5 30-30 it was suspended due to rain, on Sharapova's suggestion to chair umpire Kader Nouni. Luckily, only moments later the play resumed. At 6-5 for Li, Sharapova handed her a match point by making a huge mistake on the net, missing a smash, but she managed to pull off the tense service game and take the decision on the tournament winner to the tiebreak. However, it was not that simple. Heavy rain drenched the courts and the tiebreak had to be postponed.

After two hours, Sharapova and Li returned to the court and Sharapova ended the match after two hours and 52 minutes of play winning the tiebreak 7-5. Final score: 4-6 6-4 7-6(5). (photo: Ralf Reinecke)

Second seed and defending champion Maria Sharapova advanced to the Internazionali BNL d'Italia final with a 6-3 6-4 victory over Angelique Kerber. Her opponent in the title match will be seed number eight Li. Three of Sharapova's last five titles came on clay, while the only Grand Slam she hasn't won yet is the claycourt Roland Garros, the trophy Li lifted last year.

In both sets Sharapova broke Kerber's serve right away, and even though the twelfth-seeded German did manage to break back and keep herself in the match, Sharapova was in control throughout. The Russian's lead in winners was 27-9, while she committed one fewer unforced than her opponent. Read more »

Defending champion Maria Sharapova is through to the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, beating wildcard Venus Williams 6-4 6-3 in the final eight. After a closely-fought first set, the Russian second seed broke Venus' serve for a 5-4 lead, and in the following game saved two break points before taking the set. The second set Sharapova started by establishing a 2-0 lead, and even though Venus leveled at 2-all, the American didn't give much more resistance. Besides confidently holding one more service game, the rest of the set was Sharapova's and Venus even ended the match with a double fault. Sharapova's semifinal opponent will be Petra Kvitova or Angelique Kerber.

Earlier in the quarterfinals, Serena Williams was on court for just 28 minutes, as Flavia Pennetta retired with a right wrist injury while trailing 4-0. Williams' claycourt winning streak has mounted to 17 matches, and the American, who has this spring won on the green clay of Charleston and the blue clay of Madrid, confidently stated: "I've played on ice and on water. I can play on any surface."

Serena's opponent in the semifinals will be French Open champion Li Na of China, who stormed to a 6-1 4-0 lead against Dominika Cibulkova, before the Slovak recovered to take the second set to a tiebreak. Still, Li won 6-1 7-6 (4) and is now looking for her second victory over Serena in their seventh meeting. (photo courtesy of Francesca Moscatelli)

Three top players, Petra Kvitova, Li Na, and Vera Zvonareva, have announced withdrawals for the $2,000,000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, while Serena Williams will skip the Whirlpool Monterrey Open.

World No.3 Kvitova announced on her Facebook page that she had pulled out of Dubai due to illness. The reason for Li's withdrawal is a low back injury, while Zvonareva continues to suffer from her left hip injury which caused her retirements at Pattaya and Doha.

Kaia Kanepi will also not play Dubai, due to a right shoulder injury, and Andrea Petkovic is staying away from the tennis courts because of a low back stress fracture.

You know that world No.1 Victoria Azarenka sustained an ankle injury in her Doha semifinal, and even though the ill effects were not noticeable en route to her title win, we'll see how her leg will react in Dubai.

As for the Monterrey Open, Serena Williams has pulled out due to the ankle she hurt during a recent practice. Nevertheless, Serena was capable of entertaining the Monterrey crowd with an on-water exhibition hitting with Gisela Dulko. (photos © Neal Trousdale, Monterrey Open)

The fourth round of the Australian Open feautred a rematch of last year's final and the outcome was the same – Kim Clijsters defeated Li Na. The score 4-6 7-6(6) 6-4 took the Belgian to the quarterfinals, but within those numbers hide four match points, a painful ankle injury at 3-3 in the first set and a gruelling fight of both players.

With her foot thickly wrapped and 2-6 in the second set tiebreak, Clijsters started her big comeback by winning six points in a row to take the match to the third set, which she opened with a 4-0 lead. Li then slowly recovered to 5-4 down, but it was Clijsters who closed out the match to her advantage.

After the victory, the Belgian winner of four Grand Slam titles said that it was one of her best comebacks, while the disappointed Li can live off the number of matches she won in January, a great improvement from her horrible second half of 2011.  Read more »