Elena Dementieva, widely regarded as the best women’s tennis player never to have won a Grand Slam singles tournament, will have to wait until Wimbledon to claim her first major title. The No. 4 seed at Roland Garros was ushered out of Paris by an Australian, in a fascinating tale of both triumph and heartbreak. [...]

As the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters heads toward a pair of Saturday semifinals, it’s just as the oddsmakers predicted heading into the tournament: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray join a Swiss tennis player in the final four. Oh, wait: Stanislas Wawrinka, not Roger Federer, is the man representing Switzerland as the year’s first [...]