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Roddick, U.S. beat old foe -- the clay court

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, September 25, 2005

LEUVEN, Belgium -- As far as great escapes go, it wasn't quite on the scale of Clint Eastwood making it off Alcatraz or Julia Roberts fleeing the clutches of Lyle Lovett. It was the sort of match that the American men weren't supposed to win. Not this far away from home in front of a noisy, partisan crowd. Not on their least favorite surface, the crushed red brick of Paris, Rome, Monte Carlo and … Leuven. None of that mattered, though, for world No. 3 Andy Roddick and the U.S. Davis Cup ...

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