Omair is known for his statistical contributions to Women's Tennis Blog, but as of Roland Garros he started doing post-Grand Slam awards, giving WTA players awards they deserved on the account of their performance. You will see how the tables are turning all the time – within just a month Serena improved from the Biggest Disappointment to Grass Empress, while Maria Sharapova downgraded from the Clay Queen to the Biggest Disappointment.

Serena Williams – GRASS EMPRESS

Serena Williams was coming off a first-round defeat at Roland Garros, her first ever first-round exit at Grand Slam, but she rebounded beautifully, reminding us that she still is the player to beat on grass. The American defeated three of the Top 4 players on her way to the Wimbledon 2012 title - Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinals (world No.4 and defending champion), Victoria Azarenka in the semis (world No.2 and reigning Australian Open champion) and Agnieszka Radwanska in the final (world No.3). To top that off, Serena went on to win the doubles title as well, with sister Venus Williams.

Agnieszka Radwanska – FINESSE QUEEN

In today's game of power and big hitters, in making the Wimbledon final Radwanska showed us with her crafty play and her court sense that there still is room for finesse players. She did what neither Petra Kvitova, nor Victoria Azarenka managed to do, i.e. take a set off Serena Williams. Before Wimbledon, Radwanska was the only member of the Top 15 never to have made a Grand Slam semifinal, but she went one step better at Wimbledon making the final and falling in three sets to one of the best grass-court players ever. Read more »

Acerena, that's how we can call Serena Williams from now on. In today's Wimbledon semifinal victory, the American fired 24 aces, the 24th in style, on the match point, that is actually 4×6 one whole set, bettering her personal best of 23 achieved only three rounds ago against Zheng Jie. Serena's total number of aces at Wimbledon 2012 up to the final is 85, while second-ranked in that department is quarterfinalist Sabine Lisicki with 35. Can Williams' serving impress you more? You bet she can! Today against world No.2 Victoria Azarenka, Williams hit those 24 aces without making a single double fault! I don't like using multiple exclamation marks, but I feel like using five at this point.

You remember that in our preview we mentioned that Azarenka's pre-semifinal stats were 9% better than Serena's on the net and 13% better on the receiving points won, but today the sixth-seeded Serena lifted up her level there as well, winning 71% to Azarenka's 73% on the net and 36% to Azarenka's 27% of the receiving points won. In winners to unforced errors differential Serena was brutally dominant, hitting 45 winners to Azarenka's 14, and 14 unforced errors to Azarenka's just 5 less. Final score: 6-3 7-6(6). Williams has now won her last eight matches against Top 2 players, in straight sets!

Moreover, the day before the semifinal, Acerena played two doubles matches alongside sister Venus, won them both to reach the quarterfinal, and today shortly after her win in singles, Acerena got back to the court and celebrated yet another victory with Venus, reaching the Wimbledon doubles semifinal where they will face top seeds Liezer Huber and Lisa Raymond. Every time the Williams sisters play doubles at Wimbledon, one of them wins the singles title. That tradition can very well be continued as Serena takes on first-time Grand Slam finalist Agnieszka Radwanska in the title match.

Actually, the third-seeded Radwanska was the only Top 15 player never to have been in a Grand Slam semifinal, but she cast that spell away at this Wimbledon and even reached the last match of the tournament in singles by eliminating Angelique Kerber 6-3 6-4. Hitting just six unforced errors in the entire match, Radwanska recovered from a 3-1 deficit in the first set to take five games in a row and win the set, while in the second set a sole break in the fifth game allowed Radwanska to establish herself as a victor over Kerber.

If Radwanska wins the final she will climb to No.1 in the WTA rankings for the first time. Given Serena's serving and experience, few of us believe that can happen, but who knows. Moreover, Radwanska was already the first Pole in the Open Era, male or female, to reach a Grand Slam semifinal, and now she is the first one in the final. (photos: © Neal Trousdale)

The first Wimbledon semifinal on Centre Court on Thursday will be between Agnieszka Radwanska and Angelique Kerber and you can read the preview of the match-up here. Now let's give the word to our guest poster Omair for his take on the semifinal between Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka.

Serena Williams has set her sights on her seventh Wimbledon final as she takes on Victoria Azarenka, while Azarenka has her sights set on her first Wimbledon final and the No.1 ranking from which she was dethroned by Maria Sharapova after Roland Garros. Azarenka needs to reach the final to secure the return to the top spot or Agnieszka Radwanska to fall short of winning her first Grand Slam.

Let's have a look at the performance of Serena and Azarenka so far at Wimbledon 2012.

* I have used the average aces, double faults, winners and unforced errors hit by the player per match.

Serena has been serving efficiently as evident from her serving stats. The major difference will be the second serve. We all know that Serena has been serving her way out of trouble. Azarenka has won only 46% of points played on her second serve, while Serena has 63%, a huge difference of 17%.

However, Azarenka might love to try Serena's skills on the net by moving her around as she has won 9% more points than Serena on the net. Serena has been better than Azarenka in almost every department. Read more »

Women's Tennis Blog's contributor Omair is known for his statistical approach to tennis, but now he's summing up the claycourt season, awarding the WTA players titles based on their performance at Roland Garros 2012. Do you agree with Omair's titles? Feel free to comment!

Maria Sharapova – CLAY QUEEN

Having won Stuttgart and Rome, Sharapova was 11-1 on clay coming into the French Open, and she made it 18-1, her lone loss coming at the hands of Serena Williams on the blue clay of Madrid.

Sara Errani – CINDERELLA

Although Errani was the claycourt wins leader entering the French Open, she had never been beyond the second round of the tournament in her last four attempts, had been past the third round of a Grand Slam only once in the last eighteen majors (quarterfinals at this year's Australian Open) and was 0-28 against Top 10 players. It all changed at this year's Franch Open, she not only reached her first Grand Slam final, but in doing so recorded her first two victories over Top 10 players. Although she fell short to Sharapova in the final, she had a great run to the championship match.

Samantha Stosur – UNDERACHIEVER

Stosur's game is best suited to clay and she is a great claycourt player as is evidenced by her record at Roland Garros – she has been to the semifinals or better for three of the past four years, including this year's semifinal. She is one of the fittest athletes on the Tour at the moment, and with her game she no doubt was an underachiever. Read more »

Every Grand Slam is a unique opportunity for tennis fashion to step up and shine in the best light, so here at Women's Tennis Blog I always compile a collage of WTA photos to show the variety of styles in one place. For this French Open I played with movie making a bit and made this slideshow video. I hope you like it! Of course, don't forget to click the YouTube "Like" button if you do!

I included a lot of brands in the video, so that you get as comprehensive picture as possible. You can see players wearing Nike, Adidas,  Lotto, Reebok, Anta, Lacoste, Asics, Under Armour, EleVen, Fila and Adidas by Stella McCartney.

As you'll notice in the video, my pick for the best look of the 2012 French Open is Serena Williams, even though her display of the three-shade green Nike dress lasted for just one match (a long and exciting one, though). Also perfect was Ana Ivanovic and all the others who sported the Adidas Adizero style in lime and core energy.

Who's on your best-dressed list?

It's awesome being regular with these fashion overviews, so now we can easily refer to the past and compare. Check out Roland Garros designs in the past two years.

• 2011: Spring tennis fashion Roland Garros edition
• 2010: Roland Garros fashion radar – WTA outfits

Also, compare the claycourt looks with the styles sported on the blue courts in the Australian sun at Melbourne 2012.

Dominika Cibulkova was determined, precise and in control during most of the match against world No.1 Victoria Azarenka, to eventually oust the top seed 6-2 7-6(4).

In both sets Cibulkova outplayed Azarenka and in both sets the Slovakian got to lead 4-2, only that in the first set she quickly capitalized on the lead and broke Azarenka's serve once again in the tenth game to take the set, while in the second set Cibulkova let the lead slip away, from 4-2 to 4-5 and allowed Azarenka to come in the position to serve to level the match . However, the 15th-seeded Cibulkova saw nothing but the victory and continued to humble and frustrate Azarenka by breaking her for 6-6 and then finishing the job in the tiebreak on the second match point. The ratio of winners to unforced errors speaks for itself: Azarenka's was 19-25 (i.e. -6), Cibulkova's was 28-20 (i.e. +8).

The 2009 Roland Garros semifinalist proved that she's a mighty force at this year's claycourt Grand Slam. Her quarterfinal opponent will be either 2010 Roland Garros runner-up Samantha Stosur or young gun Sloane Stephens. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

The French Open is in full swing, but in the back of our minds we're already thinking about the approaching Wimbledon, and so are the tennis fashion designers. The Nike-clad world No.1 and No.2 will both wear white dresses with contrasting necklines in vibrant blue/lime.

Victoria Azarenka's departure from shorts will continue. The Belarusian will stick with Nike Women's Tie Breaker Knit Dress that she's working at Roland Garros, only the London version, in white. Read more »

After a tough warm-up in the first round of Roland Garros 2012, world No.1 Victoria Azarenka cruised through her second-round match against Dinah Pfizenmaier of Germany in 55 minutes, 6-1 6-1.

Azarenka committed almost six times less unforced errors (11 to 60) than in her opening match against Alberta Brianti, in which the Belarusian won 12 of the last 14 games to come back and celebrate a 6-7(6) 6-4 6-2 victory after being down a set and 0-4.

The 58th-ranked Aleksandra Wozniak, who took out seed No.31 Zheng Jie in the second round, will be Azarenka's opponent in the third round. Interestingly, Wozniak will play world No.1 for the second straight year at Roland Garros. In 2011 she faced Caroline Wozniacki in the second round and lost 6-3 7-6(6). (photo: © Neal Trousdale)