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The Queen of Absurdity regains the No. 1 ranking with her 6-4, 6-3 victory over Nadia Petrova at the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart today.

Whatever.



Tomas Berdych emerges from relative obscurity to take the Japan Open title with a 6-1, 6-4 rout of Juan Martin del Potro.



Caroline Wozniacki beat Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 for the women's title in Tokyo.



Hard-hitting Romanian Sorana Cirstea, who caught my attention back in Melbourne, rallied to her first WTA title at the Tashkent Open with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7) over Sabine Lisicki of Germany. And Dmitry Tursunov outlasted homeboy Paul Henri Mathieu 7-6, 1-6, 6-4 to take the Open de Moselle title in Metz.