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Justin Henin is gone and Venus Williams, last year’s Wimbledon Champion isn’t likely to repeat in a couple weeks, so the All-England championship is up for grabs. There are four big favorites as far as I can see. I’ll list them in order of my own power ranking and we’ll see how close I can come to predicting it. First off, I love the Serbians, so I see them finishing first and third. And then there are the Russians, and I see them at two and four. Here’s How it is going to end up: 1) Ana Ivanovic; 2) Maria Sharapova; 3) Jelena Jankovic; 4) Dinara Safina. I love them all and I hate to see any of them lose, but there has to be a winner and I see Ivanovic continuing to roll over her competitors the same way she did in Paris. What about the U.S. Open in August? Well, reigning champ Henin has put her racquet on the shelf, so it won’t be her. Right now I’ll stick with the same four listed above, but I’d really like to see Jankovic take one of these two majors. She seems to be a continuous also-ran and she deserves better.