It is difficult to remember a major tennis tournament where the number one seed has been such a prohibitive underdog. At one point, Serena Williams begrudgingly agreed that Dinara Safina should be the number one seed. Ever since, the world’s top ranked player has been setting herself up for a fall at Wimbledon. As the [...]

It wasn’t an open secret–make that a French Open secret–that the women’s tournament at Roland Garros was going to be a free-for-all, an unpredictable event with few clear favorites from round to round and match to match. Day two of women’s singles competition in Paris affirmed the unconventionally conventional wisdom, as two dangerous floaters were [...]