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[b]Walking on Broken Glass[/b] The most significant moment of 2010 on the WTA Tour didn't happen on a tennis court. It actually took place in a Munich restaurant shortly after Wimbledon. There, fresh from winning her thirteenth Grand Slam singles crown at the All England Club, Serena Williams trod on broken glass. At first, the injury to her right foot was not thought to be serious, as Serena played an exhibition in Brussels against Kim Clijsters (currently 3.25 favourite on Betfair to win the 2011 Australian Open) in front of 35, 681 people - a world-record crowd for a tennis match. But soon after it became clear that Serena needed surgery and she was forced out of three events, including the U.S. Open. The American tried in vain to return afterwards and then missed the rest of the...

Another week, another player calls it a day and after [b]Elena Dementieva[/b] it was the turn of America's[b] Taylor Dent[/b] to hang up his racquet this time. The retirement of Dent, although nowhere near as successful as Dementieva, is probably more significant because of the loss of a playing style in the men's game that it represents. Dent's big [b]serve and volley[/b] game is dying out in the men's game and it's pretty much extinct on the women's side with only the likes of [b]Amelie Mauresmo[/b] in recent memory adopting that technique on occasion to any great success. Dent is worthy of huge respect for fighting back from a [b]serious back injury[/b] that rendered him immobile for months, but once he returned to the tour he found that the game had moved on. In 2005, the...