NOTEBOOK: Grand Slam winner Mauresmo vetoed on mixed doubles plan

May 26, 2011, 10:22 GMT

Paris - Retired Grand Slam winner Amelie Mauresmo has been ruled out of the mixed doubles at the French Open thanks to her former federation, which said the 31-year-old cannot compete due to her not currently participating in an anti-doping programme.

The draconian procedure requires current players on the ATP and WTA to report daily on their whereabouts to be available any time for out of competition tests.

Geneva-based Mauresmo most assuredly gave up on that lifestyle-crimping intrusion the moment she quit the game in late 2009.

As a result, the French federation knocked back the entry of former Australian and US Open winner Mauresmo and intended partner Michael Llodra.

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NOTEBOOK: Mattek-Sands has plans to expand her tattoo collection =

Paris (dpa) - Always colourful American Bethanie Mattek-Sands is eyeing some additional body art, with plans afoot to get another tattoo.

The number 34, who has reached the third round of the French Open, already has an unfinished tat on her inside right arm, which she has said in the past was so painful to complete that she left it undone for the immediate future.

She also has a lily on her biceps and a 'ring' on her finger to remind her of her husband.

But the lure of additional ink has Mattek-Sands leaning towards adding a thigh band in the style of British popstar Cheryl Cole. But then there are also doubts creeping in.

'I told a couple of the girls in the locker room that I was going to get maybe a band around my upper think,' said the American. 'Nobody liked it in the locker room. But I still might do it, I kind of like it.

'It's still up for debate what I'm going to do,' she said of the ink which she hopes to squeeze in before Wimbledon starting in less than a month.