Slaven Bilic has admitted that he smelled complacency at West Ham ahead of the clubs disappointing start to the new campaign. The Croatians first season in charge was a successful one with the club qualifying for Europe after a seventh-place finish in the Premier League.But following the move from Upton Park to the London Stadium last summer, results suffered as West Ham lost five of their first six league matches. Slaven Bilic explains why West Ham have had a poor start to the Premier League season The slide has been arrested as they have gone unbeaten in October and reached the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup, but Bilic said expectations were too high at the start of this season and focus slightly slipped as a result.We got a bit of that complacency, he told Sky Sports Geoff Shreeves.I smelled it. I didnt know and at the end of the day I am the first to say that it is my responsibility, always, because I am the manager here.I smelled it during the pre-season when I spoke to the press. You have press conferences even in pre-season and before our qualification games for Europa League and 70 per cent of the questions were about Champions League.What are you talking about? was in my head. On one hand you dont want to be pessimistic, but on the other hand - and I was talking about it to my staff - if they are asking me those kind of questions they are asking the players the same kind of questions.What is the reason? We are not afraid of anyone, but why are we talking about Champions League? Highlights of the EFL Cup match between West Ham and Chelsea in midweek We played at home against Watford and in a pre-match interview I was asked are you thinking of an easy 3-0 win? and I was like What are you talking about?This is the Premier League and we are West Ham. Nobody can talk about an easy 3-0 win. We are hoping and sometimes you are expecting if everything goes well, but those kind of things got us in a state of a little bit of complacency.You dont do it deliberately. You dont even notice, but it comes. Just five per cent is enough here, with a little bit of bad luck… to get you in serious problems.Thank god we reacted well and on time. West Ham travel to Everton on Super Sunday on the back of Premier League victories over Crystal Palace and Sunderland and a midweek EFL Cup win over Chelsea.Bilic is hoping for three points to see them continue their rise up the table and agreed with the suggestion that they exceeded expectations last year.On one hand I agree with you, he added.We are the victims of our own success, but what should we have done? Highlights of West Hams 1-0 win over Sunderland Lose a few games once we are safe? Then it wouldnt be a great season, it would be ok, and we would be on our toes? No.We are not the first and we are not the last team to be a victim of its own success.We are a club that is moving places. We have a new stadium. 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The womens list features fewer out-of-nowhere names, yet does include those such as Iva Majoli, Anastasia Myskina and Francesca Schiavone, who all won the French Open while never making it past the quarterfinals at any other major championship. With the years second Grand Slam tournament set to begin Sunday at Roland Garros, there is little thought being given to that sort of stunning outcome, thanks to Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams. As seven-time major champion John McEnroe put it: "Its pretty obvious who the favourite is." He meant, of course, Nadal, who won his record seventh French Open title last year and is 52-1 for his career at the place. Consider, too, the nearly perfect way the Spaniard has played after seven months off the tour because of a left knee injury: Since returning in February, Nadal is 36-2, reaching the finals at all eight tournaments hes entered, winning six. "I am enjoying every moment, and eight finals in a row is wonderful," Nadal said. 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Nadal, for his part, did not sound too fussed about the matter, saying, "I had a very good chance to be No. 10 (given the time off), and there are lots of chances to be worse, and I accept the situation." So last years French Open runner-up to Nadal, Novak Djokovic, will be seeded No. 1, and 17-time major champion Roger Federer will be seeded No. 2. Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., is ranked No. 16 in the world. Djokovic handed Nadal one of his two losses of 2013, in the Monte Carlo final on clay last month, proof that Nadal is not completely invincible, even on the slow surface he dominates. The No. 1-ranked Williams, meanwhile, has been unbeatable lately. She arrives in Paris having won a career-high 24 consecutive matches and is 36-2 -- like Nadal -- with a tour-leading five titles this season. Thats part of a stretch in which shes gone 67-3, including titles last year at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the London Olympics. That 70-match stretch of excellence dates, probably not coincidentally, to her last match at Roland Garros, a shocking loss to 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano of France in the first round in 2012. It is her only opening loss in 50 career Grand Slam tournaments -- precisely the sort of thing that seems to happen around these parts. While there certainly are other women who realistically can harbour hopes of lifting the trophy in a little more than two weeks -- defending champion Maria Sharapova is the best example -- Williams appears to be playing as well as ever at the moment. She already owns 15 Grand Slam singles titles, but the French Open is the only major tournament shes won fewer than four times. Her lone championship in Paris came in 2002. "Nothing is ever perfect and I learned that last year when I felt perfect," Williams said. "So I am still in a danger zone." ' ' '