People

By Michele Orecklin

NO LOVE MATCH

Even before the French Open kicked off this week, NATHALIE TAUZIAT was swinging at her fellow players. In her newly released memoir, Les Dessous du Tennis Feminin (The Underside of Women's Tennis), Tauziat, 32, complains that the game's fans and the Women's Tennis Association are more impressed by good looks than raw talent. She is particularly dismayed at the popularity of pulchritudinous ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, one of the top money earners on the tour last year despite the fact that she has never won a singles tournament. Tauziat brands Kournikova a self-absorbed "Lolita" who plays up her nonathletic charms to garner attention. She does concede that the Russian is "fun and rather nice, even if she unfortunately does not show respect to everyone." Given the nature of her complaint, it is somewhat curious that Tauziat chose to pose for the cover of her book on a bed, clutching a pillow, wearing a nightgown. It seems she's picked up a few pointers from Anna.

WHEN BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE BREAK UP

WHO: Actor HUGH GRANT and model ELIZABETH HURLEY

WHEN: Last week, after 13 years of dating

HOW: According to their publicist, "temporarily" and under a "mutual and amicable decision"

RELATIONSHIP HIGH POINT: The touching loyalty she displayed in 1995 when he was arrested for lewd behavior after being caught with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown in the backseat of a car

RELATIONSHIP LOW POINT: Their collaboration--she produced, he starred--on the film Mickey Blue Eyes

MOST SHOCKING REVELATION: They will continue to live in the same London house

HOSIERY IS SURE TO FOLLOW

It makes some odd celebrity sense that Regis Philbin is lending his name to a line of ties: his monochromatic cravats have inspired legions of followers. More difficult to explain are the recent designs of Grammy winner CARLOS SANTANA. Despite the fact that his taste in footwear has thus far gone largely unheralded, the singer announced last week that he would debut his own line of shoes. Brown Shoe Co. (makers of Buster Browns) will produce the Carlos collection for men and women; it will combine "cutting-edge fashion with multicultural influences." The results will be seen in department stores, if not Vogue magazine, this fall.

ISN'T THERE A SISTER TO FIGHT WITH?

It's sort of like Ringo Starr hitting the road with three unknowns and calling it the Beatles. Last week while on tour in Europe, Oasis guitarist and songwriter NOEL GALLAGHER, right, got in yet another tiff with brother and co-founding member LIAM and flew home to England. This leaves Liam as the only original member of the band on the current tour. Unlike the last time a Gallagher brother deserted (in 1996 when Liam walked out on dates in the U.S.), the group hasn't been selling many albums and radio play has been scarce. Fraternal tension, however, has remained high, and in recent months the brothers have refused to be interviewed in the same room. Noel has said he will return for concerts in Britain later this summer, but by that time only their mother will care.