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SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Australian Open women's seed report

SI.com's Jon Wertheim breaks down the men's and women's seeds at the Australian Open. Read on for the top first-round matchups, dark horses to watch and his predicted winners.

SI.com: Bryan Armen Graham: Safina's problems all on 'her side'

It was predictable that Dinara Safina would struggle at the U.S. Open.

SI.com: Frank Deford: Americans' obsession over rankings evident in women's tennis

We now enter the Hit Parade portion of the athletic calendar, the annual Casey Kasem phase, when first college football, then basketball, is consumed by weekly rankings.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Federer proves no one is perfect, more mail

I am a Roger Federer fan, but it gets harder to support him after postmatch interviews where he bashes his opponents and fails to credit them with good play. Case in point: the interview after his loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Rogers Cup. Federer choked, and Tsonga stepped it up. Enough said. At what point does greatness turn into arrogance? -- Jose, San Antonio

SI.com: Bryan Armen Graham: Men's game is crowded at the top

History was made last Friday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, when the world's top eight players took part in the quarterfinals of the same tournament for the first time since the ATP Tour starting the rankings in August 1973.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Murray mania continues to mount, a wing for Santoro and more mail

WIMBLEDON, England -- While marveling at Venus Williams's play on grass....

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: French Open women's seed report

SI.com's Jon Wertheim breaks down the men's and women's seeds at the French Open. Read on for the top first-round matchups, dark horses to watch and his predicted winners.

SI.com: Bryan Armen Graham: Serena struggling as French looms

Even if you believe Serena Williams is "the real No. 1" on the women's tour, which she probably is, you've got to question the timing of her cocksure, matter-of-fact declaration on the eve of last week's Italian Open.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: The best value in sports, Roger Wed-erer's decline and new rankings

I'm back from a week off. One of my new Twitter buddies noticed that I had attended the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., last week, not as a journalist but as a fan. He asked me what the experience was like, and it was a good question. I can't recall the last time I'd attended a tennis event armed not with a notebook but with a bag of popcorn, concerned not about a deadline but about my daughter's sunblock status. Here are five impressions:

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Five thoughts from the French Open women's final

Five thoughts from the women's final at Roland Garros.

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