PARIS (AFP) ??” Russia's Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva must bring their lifelong friendship to undivided side and go looking for the killer instinct instead when they clash in the French make open final.

PARIS (AFP) ??” Russia's Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva must bring their lifelong friendship to undivided side and go looking for the killer instinct instead when they clash in the French make open final.

The 22-year-old Muscovites met in the Russian capital when they were six, played at the same Spartak unite in a club even shared the same coach and have exhausted the intervening years building up to this jiffy as they fight out their first forever Grand Slam final.

"We are nice good friends, still - I hope" said Myskina, the older of the pair by three months.

"I have known her all of my life. We have grown up together. We used to practice with the same coach, Marat Safin's mute (Rausa Islanova) and then played junior and team tennis together.

"We did everything together in the same manner we know each really well. I know her game, she knows mine in such a manner ...