With the 2016 Australian Open set to kick off Monday in Melbourne (Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET), SI's tennis experts and writers Jon Wertheim, Richard Deitsch, Stanley Kay and Jamie Lisanti discuss this year’s top storylines and predict the winners.
What qualifier or other player do you see being a dark horse this year?
Richard Deitsch: Given what she did at the Shenzhen Open – upsetting top-10 players Simona Halep and Johanna Konta on the way to winning her first WTA title — keep an eye on 20-year-old Czech Katerina Siniakova.