Keothavong paired with Safina

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Keothavong, who is ranked 56th in the world, can at least claim to be in confident mood going into Roland Garros after reaching the semi-finals of the Warsaw Open - the first time a British woman has reached the last four of a clay-court event for 26 years. The 25-year-old will meet Alona Bondarenko for a place in the final.

Her improvement on clay will be tested again next week when she meets Russian Safina, the top player in the world.

Melanie South will play an as-yet-unknown qualifier, and she may be joined in the draw by another Briton, Elena Baltacha. Katie O'Brien failed to make it out of qualifying.

Serbia's Ana Ivanovic, seeded eight this year, will play Sara Errani of Italy first up and is in the same quarter of the draw as Safina.

Sisters Serena and Venus Williams are in opposite sides of the draw, meaning they could only meet each other in the final.

Second seed and 2002 champion Serena, has a first-round tie against the Czech Republic's Klara Zakopalova while Venus takes on fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

Fourth seed Elena Dementieva opens up against a qualifier and fifth seed Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, comes up first against Petra Cetkovska.