DO YOU REMEMBER -- GUILLERMO CORIA

To an extent, Guillermo Coria is honest about his current problem: He admits it's all in his head, claiming that he is fine in practice and lousy in competition. Once a kind of Rafael Nadal forerunner, the 2004 Roland Garros finalist also won Monte Carlo and Buenos Aires and made the final of Miami that year. But he didn't even play in 2007 thanks to a combination of mental and physical problems.

The slide began in April 2006, when he lost his opening match at seven of eight events and stopped playing after the US Open. His big victory since had come in a different kind of court – he won a large settlement from the supplement makers whose contaminated product led to his positive doping test in 2001.

After delaying his comeback several times because of a string of small injuries, Coria finally returned last November at the Belo Horizonte challenger in Brazil and also played the Asuncion challenger in Paraguay, losing in the first round both times. He also lost his opening match at Vina del Mar in his first event this year, but did win a set and managed to avoid getting hurt. He still has a long way to go, but perhaps this was the first step.

At the Brasil Open at Costa Do Sauipe, he got to the quarters