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Grant me one tennis wish with the year’s first Grand Slam tournament looming, and there would be no hesitation: The game is in need of a compelling women’s rivalry, any compelling women’s rivalry.
A strange-but-true brew of injuries, accidents and serial inconsistencies left the W.T.A. Tour all but devoid of this critical raw material last season. At the same time, the leading men — Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and — became even more familiar with each other as they locked forehands and ambitions in the later rounds.
Meanwhile, the top two women in the year-end rankings — Caroline Wozniacki and Petra Kvitova — played each other just once and not until the season-ending tour...
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