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No. 1 -- Victoria Azarenka

Last Year: Quarters, L to Na Li 5-7, 2-6

2012 record: 35-3

2012 clay record: 9-2

2012 highlights: Won Australian Open, Indian Wells, Doha, Sydney

First-round opponent: Alberta Brianti

Highest possible quarterfinal seed: Samantha Stosur

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Last Year: Semis, L to Na Li 4-6, 5-7

2012 record: 29-5

2012 clay record: 12-1

2012 highlights: Finalist at Australian Open, won Stuttgart and Rome

First-round opponent: Alexandra Cadantu

Highest possible quarterfinal seed: Serena Williams

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No. 1 -- Novak Djokovic

Last year: Semifinal, L to Roger Federer 6-7(5), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(5)

2012 record: 30-5

2012 clay record: 10-3

2012 highlights: Won Australian Open and Miami

First-round opponent: Potito Starace

Highest possible quarterfinal seed: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

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No. 2 -- Rafael Nadal

Last Year: Champion, W over Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-1

2012 record: 33-4

2012 clay record: 16-1

2012 highlights: Finalist at Australian Open, Won Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Rome

First-round opponent: Simone Bolelli

Highest possible quarterfinal seed: Janko Tipsarevic

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The 2012 French Open odds may shift slightly on Friday when the official draw is released, but certainly not enough to change Rafael Nadal's status as the presumptive favorite to win his seventh title at Roland Garros. On the women's side, Serena Williams has the lowest odds, swapping places with a slumping Victoria Azarenka in recent days.

Here are the odds for the top 13 players in each draw (via William Hill):

• Four men have won the past 28 Grand Slams and three (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic) have won 27 of those 28. In the same span, 13 women have won Slams, including a different victor in every major since the 2011 Australian Open. Thus, it's little surprise that the fifth best odds on the men's side are 25/1 compared to 10/1 on the women's.

• Even at 5/6, Nadal seems like a pretty good choice. Those are the same odds he was getting last year when Djokovic had defeated him twice on clay and was undefeated headed into the tournament.

• Betting is illegal in the United States;

This is from a few days ago, but we can never resist a good busted racquet, particularly when it's from a first-ballot Hall of Frame-smasher like Andy Roddick.

In his first match since losing to Juan Monaco in Miami, Roddick was unsteady on the red clay of Dusseldorf, losing 6-2, 6-2 to Carlos Berlocq. Midway through the match, he vented:

People say Roddick is past his prime but when I see the perfect form he uses in beating up his racquet, I wonder. Look at the balance, focus, stance and follow through. It's like he's 19 all over again.

Racquet clap to Jon Scott and The Daily Spin

(Getty Images)Former American teen phenom Brian Baker continued his amazing comeback story on Wednesday by defeating No. 13 Gael Monfils, 6-3, 7-6 (9) at the Open de Nice.

It was the 27-year-old's first match against a player ranked in the top 50 since he beat reigning French Open champion Gaston Gaudio at the 2005 U.S. Open. In between, Baker underwent five surgeries that sidelined him for four years. Left hip, right hip, sports hernia, left hip (again), Tommy John surgery. The injuries knocked him out before he ever had a chance to get in.

He went back to school, healed from his ailments and returned to professional tennis in 2011. Baker had played in a French Open boys final against Stanislas Wawrinka. He defeated Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in junior events. He played in three U.S. Opens. Now he was in a futures event in Florida, earning 18 rankings points off five wins against players ranked in mid-1000s.

Last month, Baker won eight matches in Savannah to earn an American qualifying

On Wednesday, Novak Djokovic walked the runway in Paris to debut his new kit with Japanese retail giant Uniqlo. It came one day after the world No. 1 announced he was leaving Italian sportswear designer Sergio Tacchini to sign with the expanding casual wear company.

The design is simple. Djokovic is decked in all-white with red and blue piping on his right shoulder. His polo shirt zips in the middle and Uniqlo logos adorn his chest and shoulder. It's fairly safe for the inaugural design in a deal that's supposed to propel the Fast Apparel company to new heights in Europe and the United States.

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On the bright side, it ain't Sergio Tacchini.

The financial terms of the deal weren't announced, but it's safe to say it was a healthy contract. In this picture, Djokovic is shown shaking hands with Fast Apparel CEO Tadashi Yanai. He's the richest man in Japan.

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If somebody in the crowd isn't yelling "take it off," then I don't know anything anymore.

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Novak Djokovic has ended his relationship with Sergio Tacchini, the Italian sportswear company that dressed him in clothes with tattooed wings, dragons and stripes ... lots and lots of stripes. CNBC's Darren Rovell reports that the company couldn't keep up with the success of the world No. 1 after signing him to an incentive-laden 10-year deal in 2009.

One insider tells CNBC that there were constant fights between the Tacchini reps in Italy and the United States. Those battles were centered around disagreements over money owed by distributors, priority given to European stores on shipments, and suggested prices that priced out much of the marketplace. Tacchini polo shirts often retailed for $80, $20 more than a Nike tennis shirt of a similar make.

The world No. 1 being dressed in Sergio Tacchini was the equivalent of 2001 Britney Spears signing a deal with RC Cola. It never felt right. Peyton Manning endorses Oreos, not Hydrox, you know?

In memory of their glorious three years together, Busted Racquet remembers some of our favorite Sergio kits. May you fly even higher with your new dragon wings, Nole:

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As the sun rose across the United States on Monday morning, Rafael Nadal was ending Novak Djokovic's recent dominance over him, defeating the world No. 2 their rain delayed final at the Italian Open, 7-5, 6-3. With the victory, Nadal gave himself a badly-needed boost of confidence, reasserted his dominance on the clay courts he's owned for much of the last decade and moved to No. 2 in the ATP rankings, ensuring that he wouldn't see Djokovic until a possible French Open final. Or that's the narrative being spun for the tennis fans in the U.S. who weren't able to watch the 6 AM ET match.

All of it is true. Nadal was back to his virtuoso self on Rome's red clay and, watching him slide and defend, it was hard to remember last year when he didn't win a set in two clay court finals against Djokovic. But lost in the Nadal hoopla was something that is unlikely to be covered by a wire story or 30-second highlight package: For as good as Rafa was, Nole had opportunities to take control of the