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Retired tennis player Amelie Mauresmo arrives to watch Marion Bartoli of France face Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium in a Women's singles semifinal match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday, July 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Higgins boats deliver troops and equipment to Omaha Beach as Allied Forces storm Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord — a turning point in World War II. (Associated Press)

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A U.S. Air Force C130 flies above Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, during a ceremony in homage of paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne at the 70th D-Day anniversary. (Associated Press photographs)

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Royal Air Force Coastal Command took this photo of Allied forces landing in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

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American troops pack a landing craft underway to a beachhead at the northern coast of France, during the Allied invasion of Normandy, June 19, 1944. (AP Photo)

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German soldiers, former “Herrenvolk”, come over the crest of a hill with their hands over their heads in surrender to American troops during the battle for the Normandy beachhead in France on June 11, 1944. (AP Photo)

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Troops on Utah Beach in Normandy, France on June 9, 1944, take shelter behind a sea wall while awaiting orders to move inland during the invasion by allied troops in June 1944. (AP Photo)

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In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, while under attack of heavy machine gun fire from the German coastal defense forces, these American soldiers wade ashore off the ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, during the Allied landing operations at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

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Men and assault vehicles storm the beach as Allied landing craft reach their destination during the initial Normandy landing operations in France, on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

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German prisoners of war are led away by Allied forces from Utah Beach, on June 6, 1944, during landing operations at the Normandy coast, France. (AP Photo)

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FILE -In this June 1944 file photo, U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies' June 1944, D-Day invasion of France. (AP Photo/Peter Carroll)

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Russia's Maria Sharapova returns the ball to Canada's Eugenie Bouchard during their semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)