Happy New Year. Welcome back, everyone. It’s only the first day of 2018 and already we have tournaments and dispiriting injury withdrawals, and we’re less than two weeks from the draw ceremony for first major of the year. (Marketing slogan: Tennis, the sport with no clock.) With a nod to Nick K—that’s Kristoff, not Kyrgios—let’s start with a game of predictions. We can revisit in 11+ months and see how we all performed. My answers in bold….
Serena Williams will:
a. Continue authoring improbable chapters, defending her Australian Open title, less than five months after giving birth.