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When Serena Williams announced, "I don't love tennis today" during her first post-match press conference of 2012, some people were disgusted, some were sympathetic, some were disappointed, and a lot of people shrugged. Serena seems to like lighting fires. Still, I couldn't help but wonder whether a few other top players didn't secretly feel the same way as they headed into the Australian Open in Melbourne. It was hard to shake the sense that some of them were a little … troubled.
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