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Tennis is a funny game. One minute you're up against match point, with your tournament hopes hanging by a thread, and then a few points later you're suddenly running away the momentum.

This was the case for two of the ladies in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. After winning the first set, Svetlana Kuznetsova was serving for the match against Serena Williams, but Serena broke the Russian at 4-5 to even the second set, and basically stole all of Kuznetsova's mojo. Then, despite some hot Aussie weather, Serena stayed focused and sweated her way to a second-set win and an absolute clobbering in the third set to win the match, 5-7, 7-5, 6-1.

Andy Murray will have time to contemplate the pie floater this week. The No. 4-seeded Brit lost a five-set match to Spain's Fernando Verdasco (right) on Monday at the Australian Open, becoming the latest seeded player to get beat at a tournament that hasn't been kind to the "over-dogs."

To be honest, this is a little sad. Roger Federer was once the Tiger Woods of tennis, a sport that doesn't allow you to dominate for long -- too many rallies, too much athleticism, and too many young guys trying to take over your reign as the top dog.

Roger was defeated in the first round of the Masters Cup in Shanghai yesterday by a 23-year-old Frenchman named Gilles Simon. Federer, who was up a set and looking to cruise, found himself in a nasty situation he couldn't get out of.