Required Reading

• Caroline Wozniacki is #1.  Deal with it.
• Tignor offers up a defense as well.
• Hey, remember two years ago when Beijing had crap air?  Yeah, it hasn't gotten better.
• Tignor hits the reset button and finds that it's all good.
• I don't love the tone of the article, but in case you're wondering, here's Patrick Mortogolou's (of the Mortogolou Academy) take on the whole shitty #1 sitch.
• Some interesting stats and argument in this Bodo piece on the importance of the serve.
• Man, people are FREAKING OUT about Rafa's illegal coaching.
• Bojangles clearly thinks it's still 2008.  Ana's serve?  JJ's movement?  Masha's focus?  Oh now you're just making me laugh.
• Sometimes I forget that Masha had a bad year.  And then I read stuff and am reminded that, yeah, it really was shit. 
• But credit to Masha for talking about it rather honestly, even if she manages to name-drop every single sponsor she has.  No wonder she gets the big bucks.
• Non-Required Reading: Facebook is rolling out a new "Groups" function.  The whole idea of it is dumb.  This is what Friend Lists are for.  Also, if you have sooooooo many FB friends that you can't just sit down one night and trudge through the list to create different privacy groups, then you clearly don't value your privacy and have no right to complain.
• Non-Required Viewing:  I'm not really into the whole Harry Potter thing (I know, I know, shut up, I'm getting whacked from all sides from family, friends, and strangers) but Emma Watson is pretty dope in her surprising normalcy.
• Non-Required Buying: I know this is no different from the two months wherein I slept in a sleeping bag on my chair in the living room, but I wants its.