Singapore, Jan. 25 -- Every athlete thinks they have something, can be something, will do something. It's why they train, sweat, vomit, persist, in search of that brilliant day when they will show the world who they are.

Friday was Wang Qiang's day.

"I always believed I can do this," she said at the press conference . "But I don't know which day." At a Grand Slam, against Serena Williams, is a very well chosen day.

On Friday afternoon, weary after a night flight, I'd just walked through the Open gates and into the making of history. Wang was beating Williams and when a champion falls the tournament tends to momentarily freeze.

Did you see that? Did that happen? How fantastic is sport? To see a player find herself is to watch a flowe...