Surprise, delight, and deterioration in DC

Venus returns, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Leylah Fernandez shine, and the American boys implode.

It’s been a week of delightful surprises and surprising lows in the tennis world, and amidst it all, I’ve been battling a stomach infection that may or may not be rotting my brain. As such, I’m going to keep this a little simpler than normal (oops, I still wrote too much). Here’s what you need to know from this past week.