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Stanislas Wawrinka Wallpaper
MELBOURNE, Australia — For nine years now, four players have defined an era of men’s tennis, their play so consistent the rest of the ATP World Tour seemed to exist on another planet. There was Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, and then there was everybody else.
So when someone outside the Big Four managed to win a Grand Slam singles title, as Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland did at the Australian Open on Sunday night, the inclination will always be to look for cracks in the hierarchy. To see if, perhaps, more than four players can maintain residency in the upper echelon, or can rent to buy, at least.