Pics: Serena gets to work in Oz

MELBOURNE – After some off-season excitement and an early exit in Auckland, Serena Williams gets to work in Melbourne Wednesday.

Yahoo!: Missing faces make the US tennis team a smorgasbord

RIO DE JANEIRO – There were a lot of guys who didn’t want to be here.

PARIS – Only Montreal’s Aleksandra Wozniak was further down the entry list than Shelby Rogers when the French Open began.

A solid tennis birthday batch, to which we’ll add Open Court’s brother – who’s lookin’ good.

A sister, a Czech, and a Madagascarian.

Some fabulous people (including Open Court’s Dad).

From Russia, to Italy, to Germany, to Croatia.

Keys now of age.

A solid birthday day today, from France, Spain, Poland and the U.S.

A Belgian, and a Colombian celebrate.

Two players born on exactly the same date, but with radically different lives.

An accomplished Frenchman, and a Grand Slam-winning doubles player celebrate.