While men’s tennis enthralls with its quartet of superstars routinely battling it out for supremacy, the women’s game has got problems. BIG problems. LOUD problems ...
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Not-so-Grand Slammers
Shooting stars have blazed across the Grand Slam firmament, only to fizzle just as quickly. Glamazon Ana Ivanovic bagged the 2008 French Open and No.1 ranking and never got within cooee of both again. Svetlana Kuznetsova has fallen off the radar since winning Roland Garros in 2009. Tattooed trailblazer Li Na may have touched off a tennis boom in China by sweeping the 2011 French Open, but needed 14 months to win another event and hasn’t been back to the quarters of a major. Wimbledon 2011 winner Petra Kvitova likewise went a year before her next tournament win. And Sam Stosur is titleless since her shock straight-sets defeat of Serena Williams in the US Open final.
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