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Sloane Stephens on upward trajectory

Updated: January 20, 2013, 9:33 PM ET
By Howard Bryant

The first time I saw Sloane Stephens live was on Court 1 at Roland Garros last year, in the famed Bullring against Samantha Stosur. It was a terrific test for Stephens, a talented American for whom great things are forecast. It was a fourth-round match, and thus Stephens had entered the business end of the tournament. She had beaten Ekaterina Makarova (who had knocked out Serena Williams at the Australian Open) in the first round, and, to reach her first quarterfinal of a major, she would have ...

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