Slamless No. 1  Page 1 of 11  Crumbling Caroline: A Deposed
Queen Struggles to Regain Lost Crown  A shadow of her former
self, Caroline Wozniacki's loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova provokes
more questions than answers.  With a three-set loss to the
resurgent Svetlana Kuznetsova today in Melbourne, Caroline
Wozniacki has come full circle in the worst possible way. This
isn’t simply the kind of match the former No. 1 used to win.
This was literally a match the she was winning as of a little
more than a year ago. In fact, the Russian powerhouse has been
an interesting foil to Wozniacki during her rise to, mainstay
at, and now fall from, the top of the WTA Rankings.   Flash back
to the 2009 US Open. Kuznetsova was the higher ranked player,
the reigning French Open champion. Wozniacki was the underdog;
an underpowered youngster who’d had some good results, but had
yet to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal. Under the bright New
York lights, Wozniacki pulled out the first of her infamous
Houdini-esque escapes from the grips