The 2018 tennis season is already a month old. With the Australian Open in the rearview mirror and the spring swing around the corner, it's time for a bit of reflection.
Just a few weeks of tennis leaves more questions than answers. But whose stock is rising entering February? And who's going the wrong way?
Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki, of course, won the men's and women's titles in Melbourne. But Federer's stock isn't "rising," so to speak, because there wasn't really anywhere for it to go but down. Federer entered the year's first major as the favorite, and he left the winner.