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Which man will win Wimbledon? I have a funny feeling that Roger Federer will not be hoisting the cup on the final Sunday of Wimbledon.   He’s pretty much everyone’s favourite to win, including the bookies.   Although he’s the winningest player on grass, with an open-era record 18 titles on the surface including 8 at Wimbledon, he’s not nearly as safe a pick as Rafael Nadal is on clay. Not Federer? Federer has two questionable losses this year, to Kokkinakis in the first round of Miami, and to Coric in the final of Halle.   Both opponents played well, but I can’t shake the feeling that Federer could have taken those very close matches.   He did not seem to have the mental stiffness to see them through.   I have doubts about his confidence. Federer is admittedly the favourite in his quarter and should get revenge over Coric in the fourth round.   But then he could face Sam Querrey who has eliminated the defending champion each of the last two ye...

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...