With the years of Serena Williams’s dominance now in the rearview mirror, women’s tennis is firmly in its unpredictability era. For over a decade, you could pencil Williams in for at least one or two Grand Slams a year automatically, long before anyone hit a tennis ball. But for the past three years, few sports have been harder to predict than women’s tennis: Four different women have won each of the four major tournaments. The last time that happened was before World War II.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 01, 2020 11:03 UTC