Two years gone: Azarenka and Wozniacki will finally clash again

FROM THE BNP PARIBAS OPEN AT INDIAN WELLS – It was nearly two years to the day that Victoria Azarenka retired down 0-3 to then No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the quarterfinal of Indian Wells after three games due to a hip problem.

That Azarenka was not the same player or woman that she is today. She was still seen as physically fragile, would go mentally in and out of matches, was nowhere near as steady and dismissed defense as readily as she does questions she doesn’t like.

On Thursday, she will face her old friend Wozniacki in the quarters, who isn