However, she won the Australian wildcard playoff event to guarantee herself entry into the main draw, and could cause a few upsets with her looping groundies.
With the mild exception of Missouri, Mr Obama didn't achieve any big upsets, with Mrs Clinton taking New Jersey, Massachusetts and California.
Consider their results here, then, another step in the progression, with young women like Christina McHale, Irina Falconi and Sloane Stephens recording early upsets, with the four men into the second week, but with, in the end, no real championship threat other than Serena Williams.
Because not only did we have a nutty night of college basketball upsets, with No. 1 Duke being shellacked by Miami and Butler falling victim to a buzzer-beater by LaSalle, the N.C.A.A. was trying (and failing) to make sense of the utter fiasco it had made out of its investigation of Miami.
It was a night of upsets — with all-too-numerous remembrances of stars who had passed away in the past year — from the very first award, when Merritt Wever won for her supporting actress performance on Showtime's "Nurse Jackie," beating the three-time winner Julie Bowen of "Modern Family" as well as Ms. Bowen's co-star, Sofia Vergara.
This year, on Twitter, there has been more of the same, with people wondering how the President has time for brackets but can't disarm Iran, defeat ISIS, etc. (Liberals, meanwhile, have complained that his picks are too conservative — too few upsets, with the heavy favorite, Kentucky, pegged to win it all).
