Two nights ago, Kim Clijsters came unplugged in a third-set tiebreaker against Alisa Kleybanova, which she let slip away with a disconcerting lack of resistance. I found myself bleakly wondering whether women’s tennis was becoming a race to the bottom. Zheng’s win, thoughtful and gritty, but not so intense that I couldn’t enjoy it, too, made me forget Clijsters’ run for the hills.
"You can do it": Who would ever have believed that would work?