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The confusing state of the Wimbledon ladies draw Serena is back!   … kinda… Azarenka is back!   … sorta… Sharapova is back!   … ish…   Even two-time slam finalist Vera Zvonareva is back. In their “absence”, Simona Halep, Caroline Wozniacki, and Sloane Stephens have legitimized themselves as slam champions. They are just three of the 14 active slam champions in the WTA.   So there are plenty of contenders for arguably the biggest title of the year at Wimbledon.   But a favourite is a little harder to nail down. Favourites Petra Kvitova is the bookies favourite.   She’s won the Big W twice before and leads the tour in titles won this year, with five.   She seems the obvious pick.   Except that she hasn’t been doing well at the slams.   She’s only made two slam quarter-finals in the 4 years since her last title, and her run of five consecutive deep runs at Wimbledon ended in 2014.   She hasn’t been past the third rou...