Heading into the years second grand slam, things aren't as one-sided as they were last year. In 2012, Maria Sharapova won Stuttgart and Rome enroute to her only Roland Garros title. Last year, Serena Williams won all the major titles except the small event in Stuttgart in which Sharapova won again. With the someone divided nature of the tournament champions, is it possible that a new champion at Roland Garros will arise or will things of the past continue?

Petra Kvitova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Dominika Cibulkova, and Carla Suarez Navarro all come in as slight underdogs, or "dark horses". Each have all played well at Roland Garros; Kvitova made the semis in 2012, Kuznetsova is a former champion, Cibulkova made the semis in 2009, and Navarro made the quarters in 2008. With all that prior success, it's not difficult to imagine any one of these ladies making a possible deep run at Roland Garros.

With the right draw, anything is possibly; you don't have to be the best player in the world, you just have to be the best on that day. It'll be amazing to see who can be the best player seven times in two weeks and become the 2014 French Open champion.

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