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French Women 2018 Even though I bitched and moaned about picking the difficult fourth quarter in the men’s draw, it was a cakewalk compared to the entire women’s bracket… which is just an enormous helping of cruel and unusual punishment.   Nevertheless I torture myself with the brackets at tennisdrawchallenge.com   Where to start?   How about the ridiculous and murderous second quarter… That second quarter alone has four former champions in it. Four! And two of them meet in the first round, Muguruza and Kuznetsova.   Then of course there’s the very scary and very screamy Sharapova, who’s set to run into the sixth seed, last year’s semi-finalist, Karolina Pliskova in the third round.   You gotta feel sorry for Pliskova.   She could get former finalist, Safarova in round two, Sharapova in round three, and if she survives all of that, the unbelievably great and terrifying Serena Williams in round four.   And THEN, if the seeds hold, 2016 champ...

Bracket Joy in Roland’s Backyard So I’m sailing along through my Roland Garros bracket selections over at tennisdrawchallenge.com and it’s just going so smoothly.   Obviously, Rafa is my pick for the top quarter.   I have to make a minorly dicey choice of Shapovalov over Sock to lose to (I mean, ‘meet’) Rafa in the fourth round.   Then it comes down to KAnderson or Schwartzman to be his victim in the quarters. The second quarter isn’t super challenging either.   There’s the small matter of Cilic, Fognini, or Edmund to make the quarters (I picked Cilic cuz of the way he rocked Rome), but ultimately I figure they’re all going to lose to the big Delpo… who will play a couple exhausting five-setters, and then in turn get killed by Nadal in the semis. Third quarter is looking good too.   Monfils and Kyrgios will probably flake out after two rounds.   Carreno-Busta has just gotten so good, but will he be able to fend off the clay-loving Goffin? ...