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The analytics from the 2012 Australian Open: After seven days of play, we've seen multiple umpiring controversies, zero Americans remaining not named Williams, four smashed rackets in succession by Marcos Baghdatis and no major upsets. Herewith, our midterm grades from Melbourne. All marks distributed on the diploma mill curve.
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