Gilles Simon Needs to Work on His Poker Face

Professional athletes fear the misfortune of their opponents figuring them out, perhaps more than any other obstacle in their careers. Tennis players are no different. You've all heard commentators and pro players talk about "holding the ball" in order to surprise and wrong-foot their competition. Other cardinal rules of disguise include: not looking into the direction the shot is traveling, and not forgetting to keep the grunt at the same pitch for every swing. But what happens when seemingly for no reason, all which was working well suddenly is replaced by everything that can go wrong? Welcome to the world of Gilles Simon. In the ongoing dialog which is the bizarre rise and fall of the Frenchmen, Simon once again crashed out of the early stages of a Tour event this week; German wild-card Daniel Brands being the benefactor. Should we cut Gilles a break here, or does the Nice native deserve all the stern fingers pointing in his direction? Well, being No. 7 in the world...