Belgian owner Roland Duchâtelet has regrouped again this summer, hiring compatriot Bob Peeters and overseeing a raft of transfer activity that, for now, makes the Addicks one of this season's least predictable quantities.
Safarova's compatriot Petra Kvitova now leads the chasing pack, having replaced Maria Sharapova in the No2 slot.
It has been the tournament of fallen heroes, Wawrinka beating his compatriot and 17-slam champion Roger Federer in the quarters, with Djokovic succumbing when least expected – and refusing to blame fatigue after a semi-final of more than four hours against Andy Murray, completed the previous day.
For many fans, the renewal of Astana's licence, after their high-profile string of doping positives, is a significantly greater issue than whether one Australian sought to give his compatriot an advantage.
The vanquished Frenchman even reckoned Edmund might be better on clay than his world No3 compatriot, extravagant praise that will raise a few eyebrows.
Yet he ignored that of his compatriot John Inverarity, the Warwickshire coach at the time, who had repeatedly told the Australian team's coach, John Buchanan, that the wicket was a belter.
In the women's event Simona Halep crushed her Romanian compatriot Alexandra Dulgheru 6-1, 6-0 in 56 minutes.
By 1455 Mr Gutenberg, having lined up venture capital from a rich compatriot, Johannes Fust, was churning out bibles and soon also papal indulgences (slips of paper that rich people bought to reduce their time in purgatory).
This is the second important deal of AHP's to falter in eight months: its merger talks with SmithKline Beecham were broken off in January this year when the British firm decided to throw its lot in with its larger compatriot, Glaxo Wellcome (a merger that itself fell apart only a few weeks later).However, Monsanto is bearing the brunt of investors' anger, because it has the most to lose.
The $68 billion deal announced on January 26th by America's Pfizer to acquire Wyeth, a middle-sized compatriot, was the catalyst.
She put her all into promoting her candidates, even flying her hand-picked hopeful for the most populous province of Buenos Aires to Brazil to be photographed with their compatriot, Pope Francis.
