The burden of the top ranking  Updated: May 31, 2012, 3:32 PM ET
By Greg Garber |  PARIS -- Blaz Kavcic, a shaggy and excitable
Slovenian, is ranked No. 99 among ATP World Tour players. Still,
after losing the first seven games, he found a way Wednesday to
create fleeting doubt in the mind of world No. 1 Novak Djokovic.
Kavcic was serving at 4-3 on Court Suzanne Lenglen when the
slumbering champion awoke. That eighth game was brutal, but
Djokovic won it. This prompted (count them) seven vigorous fist
pumps. He seemed to be trying to inflate himself, pump some
confidence into his momentarily indifferent game.  It worked.
Djokovic handled Kavcic 6-0, 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the third
round here at Roland Garros.  [+] EnlargeNovak Djokovic AP
Photo/Michel EulerNothing comes easy just because you're No. 1.
Just ask Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka.  His women's
counterpart at No. 1 nearly crashed out in the first round.
Victoria Azarenka was down a set and one point from falling into
a 5-0 hole in the second