There was a pattern in this year’s Australian Open men and women’s single finals. Serena was the women’s top seed and so was Djokovic. Both of them won the finals every time they found their berths. She won on six occasions out of six and the Serb won on five out of the five times that he entered the finals. Both are ATP’s top ranked men and women’s players and inspire awe in opponents against whom they play. Their forms, going into the finals, were patchy but still they outlasted their opponents on their superior mental strength. These are compelling statistics, about which the tournament managers would not have dwelt, when they decided on the seedings