Hmm..

Shortly after writing the Friday feature (below), I stumbled on an item tennis journalist Bob Larson moved a few days ago from Dubai, on Silvia Farina Elia’s first-round shocker over Venus Williams:

Note also that Svetlana Kuznetsova also lost early in Dubai—to wild card Sania Mirza.

It’s funny how often you can throw the form chart out the window at events that have a reputation for opening their checkbooks . . .